A proposal to install a statue in Queens Village that would honor Korean women who were forced into sexual servitude to Japanese soldiers during World War II has prompted both support and criticism within Philly's multi-ethnic Asian American communities.
for his planned removal of a statue of Christopher Columbus that stands deeper in South Philadelphia, saying the mayor had violated the directive’s rules on removals. Kenney, who has called Columbus a brutal enslaver in an official statement, has appealed the opinion. The statue remains on site, but boxed up and covered from view. In 2020, Kenney alsoThe “comfort women” statue was first put up in 2011 in Seoul, the South Korean capital — across from the Japanese Embassy.
City Councilmember Mark F. Squilla, whose district includes the location of the proposed statue, formally endorsed it, too. “I fully support this request,” he wrote in 2018. At the hearing, Marguerite Anglin, the architect and painter who is director of public art for the city, dismissed the idea that the statue ran afoul of the directive’s seeming focus on Philadelphia matters. She noted it was not far from memorials on Penn’s Landing honoring veterans of the Korean and Vietnam Wars.
In March, Arthur Gibbs, the commander of a Veterans of Foreign Wars post on Front Street, across the street from the proposed plaza, wrote the city in opposition to the statue. While saying “I’m not devaluing the issue,” Gibbs said he saw no particular reason Queen Village had been chosen as a site. Gibbs said he worried the monument might become a rallying spot for protests that could disturb some of his members.
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