S. Korean police, activists clash over forced labor statue

Labor group members clashed with police on Tuesday as they sought to erect in front the Japanese Consulate General in Busan a statue symbolizing Korean laborers forcibly taken to Japan during its rule over the Korean Peninsula between 1910 and 1945.The group also held a rally in the afternoon, joined by thousands of people, demanding the installation of the bronze statue of a gaunt man in front of the consulate in South Korea's second-largest city. But the group members said they will give up, having been unable to force their way through the heavily guarded area.With the South Korean gover…READ FULL ARTICLE