Statue of Peace

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| hangul = 평화의 소녀상

| hangul = ^평화의 소녀상

| hanja = 平和의 少女像

| hanja = 平和의 少女像

| rr = Pyeonghwaui sonyeosang

| mr = P'yŏnghwaŭi sonyŏsang

| kanji = 平和の少女像

| hiragana = へいわのしょうじょぞう

| revhep = Heiwa no shōjo-zō

| kunrei = Heiwa no syôzyo-zô

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The '''Statue of Peace''' ({{Korean|hangul=평화의 소녀상}}; {{langx|ja|平和の少女像}}), often shortened to '''Sonyeosang''' in Korean or '''Shōjo-zō''' in Japanese (literally "statue of girl"){{cite news |url=http://www.kukmindaily.co.kr/article/view.asp?page=&gCode=7111&arcid=0010302434&code=71111101 |title=NCCK Special Declaration Rejects "Comfort Women" Agreement |newspaper=Kukmin Daily |date=28 January 2016 |access-date=31 January 2017}} and sometimes called the {{nihongo|'''Comfort Woman Statue'''|慰安婦像|Ianfu-zō}},{{cite web |url=http://www.mofa.go.jp/press/kaiken/kaiken1e_000007.html |title=Press Conference by Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida |website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan |date=13 January 2017 |access-date=31 January 2017}} is a symbol of the victims of [[sexual slavery]], known euphemistically as [[comfort women]], by the Japanese military during [[World War II]], specifically, the period from the beginning of the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]] until the end of the [[Pacific War]]. The Statue of Peace was first erected in [[Seoul]] to urge the Japanese government to apologize to and honour the victims. It has since become a site of representational battles among different parties.{{Cite journal|last=Chun|first=Dongho|date=1 May 2020|title=The Battle of RepresentationsGazing at the Peace Monument or Comfort Women Statue|url=https://read.dukeupress.edu/positions/article-abstract/28/2/363/164784/The-Battle-of-RepresentationsGazing-at-the-Peace|journal=Positions: Asia Critique|volume=28|issue=2|pages=363–387|doi=10.1215/10679847-8112482|s2cid=219042149|issn=1067-9847|url-access=subscription}}{{vague|date=May 2025}}

The '''Statue of Peace''' ({{Korean|hangul=평화의 소녀상|rr=Pyeonghwaui sonyeosang}}; {{langx|ja|平和の少女像}}, ''Heiwano shōjo-zō''), often shortened to '''Sonyeosang''' in Korean or '''Shōjo-zō''' in Japanese (literally "statue of girl"){{cite news |url=http://www.kukmindaily.co.kr/article/view.asp?page=&gCode=7111&arcid=0010302434&code=71111101 |title=NCCK Special Declaration Rejects "Comfort Women" Agreement |newspaper=Kukmin Daily |date=28 January 2016 |access-date=31 January 2017}} and sometimes called the {{nihongo|'''Comfort Woman Statue'''|慰安婦像|Ianfu-zō}},{{cite web |url=http://www.mofa.go.jp/press/kaiken/kaiken1e_000007.html |title=Press Conference by Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida |website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan |date=13 January 2017 |access-date=31 January 2017}} is a symbol of the victims of [[sexual slavery]], known euphemistically as [[comfort women]], by the Japanese military during [[World War II]], specifically, the period from the beginning of the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]] until the end of the [[Pacific War]]. The Statue of Peace was first erected in [[Seoul]] to urge the Japanese government to apologize to and honour the victims. It has since become a site of representational battles among different parties.{{Cite journal|last=Chun|first=Dongho|date=1 May 2020|title=The Battle of RepresentationsGazing at the Peace Monument or Comfort Women Statue|url=https://read.dukeupress.edu/positions/article-abstract/28/2/363/164784/The-Battle-of-RepresentationsGazing-at-the-Peace|journal=Positions: Asia Critique|volume=28|issue=2|pages=363–387|doi=10.1215/10679847-8112482|s2cid=219042149|issn=1067-9847|url-access=subscription}}{{vague|date=May 2025}}

==History==

==History==