A South Korean municipality on Thursday removed an uninstalled statue symbolizing Korean laborers forcibly taken to Japan during its 1910-1945 rule over the Korean Peninsula from a sidewalk in Busan.Civic group members had sought to erect the bronze statue of a gaunt man in front of the Japanese Consulate General in the southern port city on May 1, but were blocked by police and left it sitting near the consulate for weeks.The removal by the municipality's eastern district comes as ties between South Korea and Japan have been improving, despite historical wartime issues and a territorial ro…READ FULL ARTICLE
