Overview

• The Korea Council formally notified Mitte district on August 13 that it would refuse to move the comfort women statue from public land.
• On August 15, Mitte District Mayor Remlinger called the relocation refusal “incomprehensible” and warned that rules would be applied strictly if the statue remained.
• The district has proposed a privately owned site about 100 meters away and offered to cover all relocation and preparation costs.
• On August 14, Chair Han led a rally of around 100 Korean, Japanese and German supporters who laid flowers and framed preserving the statue in public as a moral mission.
• With the council’s rejection and the borough’s end-September deadline intact, the statue’s fate on public land remains in unresolved administrative limbo.