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."
Japan-South Korea rift
South Korea park cancels ceremony for statue resembling Abe
Head of botanical gardens says bilateral dispute led to scrapping of event
A statue of a man bowing in front of a figure depicting a wartime comfort woman victim is seen at the Korea Botanic Garden in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The operator of the park says the statue is not necessarily meant to depict Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. © EPA/Yonhap/Jiji
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