SEOUL -- A botanical garden in South Korea canceled the opening ceremony for a statue that shows a man resembling Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe kneeling and bowing to a girl symbolizing wartime "comfort women."
Kim Chang-yeol, head of Korea Botanic Garden in Pyeongchang -- host city of the 2018 Winter Olympics -- said Wednesday that he decided to scrap the ceremony scheduled for Aug. 11, citing the dispute between the two countries over the statue, titled "Eternal Atonement."
