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 ...

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 ...

“It’s between Japan and Korea war time...America has nothing to do with it.” The story of the statue began with the ... the rights to the freedom of speech, the rights to marry and live ...

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.

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 ...

Instead, freedom of expression was shut down ... In 2017, his administration recalled its ambassador to South Korea for three months to protest a statue, depicting a barefoot young woman in ...

A South Korean court ruled Wednesday that a 14th century Korean Buddhist statue should be sent back to a Japanese temple from where it was stolen in 2012. The statue’s return had been put on ...

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 ...

A 14th-century Buddhist statue of the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, stolen from Japan's Kannonji temple in 2012, sits at Buseok Temple in Seosan, South Korea, Monday, May 5, 2025. (Kyodo News via AP ...