Doctored image shared in posts about 'genuine statue of former South Korean leader'

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Doctored image shared in posts about 'genuine statue of former South Korean leader'
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🇰🇷 This doctored image (left) does not show South Korean schoolchildren bowing to a statue of former president Kim Dae-jung. It has been created from an image (right) of the former North Korean leader Kim Il Sung's statue in Pyongyang:

on Facebook on April 7, 2023.

The claim was accompanied by an image that appears to show a group of schoolchildren bowing in the direction of a bronze statue. Red text superimposed at the top of the image reads:"Kim Dae-jung of the People's Republic of Jeolla," an apparent jibe that pokes fun at South Korea's southwestern region ofScreenshot of the misleading post shared on Facebook. Captured April 10, 2023.

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