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Today (21st), we will deliver the news that a model stone pagoda was built to pray for the recovery of the Icheon five-story pagoda that was robbed by the Japanese occupation.



This is Yoo Young-soo from Seongnam Branch.



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five-story stone pagoda in Icheon was exported to Japan during the Japanese colonial rule, and has not returned for more than 100 years.



With the desire for recovery, a model tower was built with donations from citizens.



This is an Icheon five-story pagoda standing in the backyard of the Okura Hotel in Tokyo, Japan.



It was the monumental collection enthusiast Okura Kihagiro secretly took the stone pagoda from Icheon Hyanggyo to Japan in 1918.



Japan is virtually rejecting our request for return.



Icheon Five-story Stone Pagoda was built with donations from citizens to pray for their return home.



This is the place that has been left empty for more than 10 years to place the Icheon five-story stone pagoda.



It is the purpose of not forgetting the existence of the stone pagoda and to grasp the will to change it.



[Taejun Um/Icheon Mayor: Icheon five-story stone pagoda is most beautiful when it is in Icheon, not in Japan.] The



Stone Pagoda Recovery Committee also held an exhibition of works that reproduced cultural properties that spilled abroad.



Our artisans elaborately reproduce more than 50 works of cultural assets that have been leaked abroad, including Japan.



[Han Bong-Seok/Exhibition writer·Intangible Cultural Property Wooden Carving Cabinet: (Foreign) There are a lot of good Korean works.

It's not that Koreans need to know where my child is.

So there is no opportunity to see it, but if you reproduce it as it is (I thought it would not be good.)]



[Lom-Shim Kim/Icheon citizen: We took the things that would have been good if we kept them well, and the beautiful things, and kept them abroad It is a little disappointing that there is.]



Icheon City and the

Redemption

Committee are planning to carry out a more powerful movement to

redeem

cultural properties with the establishment of the Tower of

Hope

.



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