Friedensstatue, Bronze monument in Moabit, Germany
The Statue of Peace is a bronze memorial of a barefoot seated girl in Korean dress and a head wreath, hands holding red flowers in her lap. Beside her stands an empty bronze chair with a slatted seat and back. A black plaque with white text is set into the light grey stone slab base, and a floor mosaic shows the girl's shadow as an old woman with a white butterfly.
The memorial was erected in 2020 by the Korea-Verband organization to address historical injustices faced by Korean women. The district assembly voted to keep it permanently in place the following year after initial removal attempts.
The memorial acknowledges the stories of Korean women forced into wartime servitude, making it the first public space in Germany where this overlooked history is openly recognized.
The square is easily reached by public transportation and sits centrally in the Moabit district. The memorial is freely accessible at any time and requires no reservation or advance preparation to visit.
The floor plate beside the bronze figure carries a mosaic showing the girl's shadow as the silhouette of an old woman, with a white butterfly inside it. Two black boards with explanations in German and English are set into the same plate. The empty bronze chair next to her is part of the composition.
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