The South Korean Foreign Ministry informed the Hankyoreh on Monday that as the Statues of Peace are installed at the initiative of local communities and civil society, it is “inappropriate ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - One test of the commitment by Japan and South Korea to resolve the "comfort women" issue may be the fate of a statue in front of Tokyo's embassy in Seoul. The bronze of a ...

So far, the petition has received more than 200 signatures. The statue was erected on July 30, 2013, to remind the public of the Korean women who were forced to provide sexual services to Japanese ...

reflect on it and foster friendship, built in response to the collective desires of many people. The monument commemorates Korean wartime laborers who died in Japan. We demand that Gunma Governor ...

A 14th-century Buddhist statue that Korea’s Supreme Court ruled should be returned to the Japanese temple that held it before it was smuggled into Korea will be sent to Japan in May. The Gilt ...

A Goryeo-era Buddha Statue, looted by Japanese pirates and later stolen by thieves and brought back to Korea, is set to make a temporary return to its original home. The 14th-century Korean ...

Daejeon, South Korea, Jan. 24 (Jiji Press)--A ceremony to return a stolen Buddha statue to a Japanese temple on Tsushima Island, Nagasaki Prefecture, was held in the central South Korea city of ...