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The 1,100 pound bronze statue [5] monument is a replica of the original comfort women statue located in Seoul, South Korea. It depicts a girl sitting in a chair, with an empty chair beside her. [ 1 ] The chair represents aging survivors who have not yet received justice, as well as space for people to sit and reflect on how women and girls were ...
The Statue of Peace (Korean: 평화의 소녀상; RR: Pyeonghwaui sonyeosang; Japanese: 平和の少女像, Heiwano shōjo-zō), often shortened to Sonyeosang in Korean or Shōjo-zō in Japanese (literally "statue of girl") [1] and sometimes called the Comfort Woman Statue (慰安婦像, Ianfu-zō), [2] is a symbol of the victims of sexual slavery, known euphemistically as comfort women, by ...
A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit for the statue's removal and was met with support from the Los Angeles City Council, Korea-Glendale Sister City Association, and the Korean American Forum of California as part of a "large-scale effort to raise international awareness of the comfort women's plight."
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Comfort Woman Statue may refer to: Statue of Peace, a statue in Seoul, South Korea; Filipina Comfort Women, a statue that was erected in Manila, Philippines; San Francisco Comfort Women Memorial, a statue installed in San Francisco, US
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Comfort Women Peace Monument [8] Central Park, Glendale, CA [9] July 30, 2013 [8] [10] Comfort Women Memorial Peace Garden [11] Fairfax County Government Center, Fairfax, VA [11] May 30, 2014 [11] 'Comfort Women' monument [12] Liberty Plaza, Union City, NJ [13] August 4, 2014 [13] Comfort Women Peace Statue [14] Korean American Cultural Center ...
In January 2021, South Carolina unveiled an 11-foot bronze statue of Gamecock great A’ja Wilson, a Columbia native who helped lead the team to its first national championship in 2017. Wilson has ...