Labor activists unveil the model of a statue symbolizing Korean laborers forcibly taken abroad by the imperialist Japan during World War II at the Yongsan Station Square in western Seoul on April 6, 2017. They called for the government to allow them to set up the statue at the square on the Aug. 15 Independence Day. Early this year, the nation’s two largest umbrella labor unions unsuccessfully tried to establish the statue there on the March 1 Independence Movement Day. The government disapproved the demand, saying the square is state land. Up to 1.4 million Koreans are estimated to have been forced to work at coal mines, factories and construction sites abroad from 1939-45, when Korea was a Japanese colony. (Yonhap)
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It was terrible and should never be forgotten but it’s time to move on, I would be worrying a lot more about North Korea than Japan.
Oh what a slippery slope they’ve created. How long before we see a statue of that Ajeoshi with his pants around his ankles from the protest?
@Smokes, LOL that would be a great statue to put up in front of Yongsan Station:
https://www.rokdrop.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/ajushi2.png
It’s not every day you see a statue of a concentration camp survivor working up enough strength to salute Hitler.
It must be some sort of Jungian thing.
https://imgflip.com/i/1mz9de
https://ibb.co/jwZoT5
Instead of Yongsan Station – how about putting up a bronze statue version of this guy in front of Harajuku or Shibuya Station in Tokyo?
Chickenhead, here is an assist for you: