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The Statue of Peace was designed by the couple Kim Seo-kyung and Kim Eun-sung. [6] It depicts a girl dressed in a chima jeogori, a modified form of hanbok in the late-19th to early-20th century, with small hands and short hair, sitting and staring at the embassy of Japan in central Seoul. [5] Japan has repeatedly demanded that the statue be ...
Kim Seo-kyung and Kim Eun-sung are a husband-and-wife team of Korean sculptors. They are best known for the Statue of Peace. [1] The statue was completed in 2011 and placed near the Japanese embassy in Seoul. [2] It was just one of over 20 similar statues designed by the couple, most of which are located in Korea, with at least two in the USA. [1]
The statue has sparked a discourse on commemorative cultures among local, state, and diplomatic levels. [2] The bronze statue was designed by the South Korean artist couple Kim Eun-sung (b. 1965) and Kim Seo-kyung. [3] It is the first statue of its kind to be installed in a public space in Germany. [3]
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On August 9, 2019, Sadamoto criticized on Twitter a statue featured in the “After ‘Freedom of Expression’?” historical art exhibition at the Aichi Prefecture Museum of Art, Statue of Peace (2011), by Kim Seo-kyung and Kim Eun-sang memorializing comfort women, girls who worked in wartime brothels in World War II for the Japanese military ...
An April 27, 2016, article in Tuổi Trẻ said that artists Kim Seo-kyung and Kim Eun-sung would show their Vietnam Pieta statue on May 4, 2016, to the Korean-Vietnamese Peace Foundation. This Vietnam Pieta statue would be used as a model for two statues: one statue that would go in Vietnam and one statue that would go in South Korea.
Until Kim Hak-sun's testimony in 1991, comfort women were silenced post-liberation – in South Korea due the nation's masculinist culture and nationalist shame. [1] [2] Following this, the issue gained momentum, with demands for recognition and compensation emanating from multiple sources, including feminist organisations and legal professionals.
The reality TV star did not purchase the piece, and "this is the first that she has learned of its existence," a representative for Kardashian said Wednesday.