News Translation A citizens' group is planning to install a statue representing "requisitioned people". They were taken to Japan and forced to work in the wartime. The statue would be put next to another statue of girl representing the comfort women* issue in front of the Japanese Embassy. A spokesperson from the Korean Foreign Ministry noted it is "not to be desired by international courtesy. 韓国で、日本大使館の前などに設置されている慰安婦問題を象徴する少女像の隣に、市民団体が、戦時中に日本に徴用された「徴用工」を象徴する石像を設置する計画について、韓国外務省の報道官は「国際的な儀礼上、望ましくない」と述べました。 "comfort women" are women who is said to have been forced to have sex with Japanese soldiers in the wartime.