Daegu Mayor Hong Jun-pyo: ``Are you against building a statue of former President Park Chung-hee?... If you are 100% in favor of it, then North Korea'' = South Korea

Hong Jun-pyo, the mayor of Daegu, announced on the 5th that he will discuss the plan to erect a statue of former President Park Chung-hee and make a decision after discussing it with the city council, which is the representative body of citizens.
did. On this day, Mayor Hong visited the press room and held a meeting and said, ``Ever since I was elected mayor of Daegu, I have been thinking about the erection of a bronze statue of President Park Former.''
"We have no involvement whatsoever, and we have no intention of working with them." Prior to this, Mayor Hong posted on Facebook, ``Now is the time to do a project to praise the achievements of President Park Former, who represents Daegu.''
. "We are considering naming the Dongdaegu Station Square 'Park Chung Hee Square' and constructing a bronze statue of President Park in front of it."
Regarding the issue of financial resources, Mayor Hong said at the council meeting, ``There is no way we could finance it with citizen donations.''
It's sense. If we were to do it in the city, we would do it with citizens' taxes." The size of the bronze statue is similar to that of General Yi Sun-shin (height 6.
The idea is to make it smaller than 5 meters). When it was pointed out that opposition was expected from some civil society groups, he said, ``If you agree 100%, it's North Korea.
There is nothing the Republic of Korea can do."