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Riot police surround a bronze statue of General Douglas MacArthur, who stares out across Freedom Park in the South ... The North invaded South Korea in June of 1950, and rapidly overran the ...
Kim Moon-soo (L), the presidential candidate of the conservative People Power Party, shakes hands with a voter during a ...
A memorial statue of Yoon Bong-gil, an independence fighter during Japan's colonial rule, will be erected in North Korea next year. Hwang Eui-man, the head of the memorial foundation for Yoon ...
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — When French sculptor Auguste Bartholdi designed the Statue of Liberty as a gift ... the Roman goddess of freedom, as the female figure on which to base his work.
“I pledge to win the economic war between Korea and Japan in Choi Jae-hyung’s anti-Japanese spirit that is reborn today.” Choi Jae-hyung was recently put in the spotlight when President Moon Jae-in ...
The Vatican will dedicate a new statue of the patron saint of Korea, St. Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn ... States Commission on International Religious Freedom: “Anyone caught practicing religion or ...
The Buseoksa temple in South Korea filed a legal case in 2016 claiming ownership of the statue, which has been in the custody of the government, saying Japanese pirates had plundered it in the ...
The repatriation, which took place on Monday, marks the end of a protracted legal battle between Japan and South Korea over the statue's ownership, a dispute that further complicated the already ...
TOKYO (AP) — A 14th century Korean Buddhist statue stolen from a Japanese temple nearly 13 years ago was returned on Monday, following a yearslong legal battle between Japan and South Korea over ...