PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia’s Art Commission has set Sept. 19 as the date for a public hearing on a controversial proposal to place a statue in the city’s Queen Village section about the suffering imposed on Korean “comfort women” in the year leading up to and including World War II.
The special hearing is to be held at 9 a.m. via Zoom. The link and more information can be obtained on the art commission’s website. People can offer their opinion at the meeting or provide written testimony beforehand.
The nine members of the panel will only hear testimony that day. They will vote at the commission’s regular meeting on Oct. 12. No more testimony will be heard at that session.
