Artist Eunsuk Yoo, who had the option of simply modifying the statue but opted to remove it instead, posted on Facebook saying his "reason for it was that [he] wanted to apply the natural physical phenomenon to a superhero [to] depict what's natural in the morning without lies and superficial-ness in a comical way."
He continued (as translated by Kotaku) to say it was "sad," but that, "I understand that a piece that could be potentially interpreted as lewd can be offensive at a place like shopping mall. It's disappointing, but I'll reach out to the public with a better work next time."
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