Greetingman

The concept provides a man, 6 meters high, bowing in a typically Asian greeting gesture.

A series of these statues were intended to be installed, to symbolize South Korea's friendship with various countries around the world.

[1] South Korea is the antipode (opposite side of the earth) of Uruguay, which adds symbolic meaning to the statue.

[2] The second statue was unveiled in October 2013 in South Korea, near the Korean Demilitarized Zone, in Haean, Yanggu County, Gangwon.

It commemorates the large Korean community that was started by the first wave in 1905 of henequen laborers.