Gunma Prefecture finally removes memorial monument for Koreans... ``Communicating with the Japanese side'' = South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs (equivalent to Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs) has announced that it will communicate with the Japanese side regarding the removal of a memorial monument for Korean workers from the colonial era in Gunma Prefecture, Japan.
Lim Soo-seok, chief spokesperson for the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said at a regular press conference held at the government building in Seoul this afternoon, ``Our government is committed to ensuring that this incident does not interfere with the friendly relations between Japan and South Korea.
I hope that the matter will be resolved in the future." On the same day, according to the Asahi Shimbun and other media and diplomatic authorities, on the 31st of last month, a Korean laborer was found in Gunma no Mori, a prefectural park located in Takasaki City.
It has been confirmed that the workers' memorial has been removed. It was reported that only concrete fragments left after being destroyed by an excavator were left where the memorial had been.
An official from the Memorial Monument Protection Association, which owned the Korean memorial, said, ``The conscience of peace-loving people has been torn to shreds.''
The Asahi Shimbun reported that he said, However, the inscription on the memorial monument was handed over to a civic group on the 29th of last month, when Gunma Prefecture began removing it. It will be posted again in the future when an alternative location is decided.
You will be able to get rid of it. Gunma Prefecture's Korean Memorial Monument was established in 2004 by Japanese citizen groups to understand the history between the Korean Peninsula and Japan and to promote friendship between the two countries.