Task Force Formed for Korean Memorial
Mayor Tom Bradley created a task force Thursday to work out a compromise to the impasse that blocked placement of a Korean War memorial on a San Pedro seaside bluff.
The Cultural Affairs Commission ruled April 27 against erecting a cluster of a dozen bronze larger-than-life soldiers in combat at Angels Gate Park in southern San Pedro.
The commissioners said the site was inappropriate for the war memorial and its fighting men. The park already has a Korean Friendship Bell in a colorful pagoda, which was given to the city by South Korea.
Bradley named Adolfo Nodal, general manager of the Department of Cultural Affairs, as chairman of the task force, with instructions to work out a compromise “so that an appropriate memorial” for Korean War veterans can be built.
Joining Nodal on the task force will be Merry Norris, president of the Cultural Affairs Commission, Edward Leffingwell, city director of visual arts, and mayoral aide Valerie Fields.
Under the City Charter, the Cultural Affairs Commission must approve any work of art to be erected or placed on land belonging to the city.
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