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Return December 17, 2008

Japan has temporarily returned to Korea these gilded bronze statues of Buddha made during the Unified Silla Dynasty (668 AD-935 AD) for exhibition at the National Museum of Korea in central Seoul. The exhibition, called “Echoes of Life, the Enduring Tradition of Unified Silla Sculpture,” opened yesterday and will last until March 1, 2009. The Buddha statues had been taken by a Japanese businessman during Japan’s colonization of Korea and have been preserved at Japan’s Tokyo National Museum.