According to a report by Kyodo News on September 6, Seoul, South Korea, demolished some commemorative works in the “Place of Memory” square in Namsan Park in the city center on the 5th. The square was built in 2016 to remember the “comfort women” issue for future generations.
It is reported that this measure was taken because the artist who created the work was convicted of obscenity. However, citizen groups objected, calling it “an act of erasing history.”
According to reports, the work is engraved with the names of “comfort women” and depicts the scenes of these women being taken away. The square was built during the period when Park Won-soon (late), who belonged to the “Common Democratic Party”, was the mayor of Seoul. The creator, Lim Ok-sang, is known as a “people’s artist” and is an artist close to the “Communist Democratic Party”.
However, 73-year-old Lim Ok-sang was sentenced to six months in prison with a two-year suspended sentence by the Seoul Central District Court in August for hugging and kissing employees at the research institute he ran.
Oh Se-hun, the current mayor of Seoul who belongs to the “National Power Party”, decided to demolish it after the verdict was handed down on the grounds that “this is an insult to the former ‘comfort women’ and others.” Lim Ok-sang’s other works in Seoul will also be removed.
Support groups, while condemning Lim’s crime itself, opposed the removal of his work, saying “it would erase Japan’s mistakes and the history of the anti-sexual violence movement.”
Original title: Accused of “erasing history,” the “comfort women” memorial sculpture in Seoul was demolished
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2023-09-07 08:27:00
