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Lapu-Lapu Monument (or the Statue of the Sentinel of Freedom), Manila, Philippines The monument was a gift from the people of Korea as appreciation and to honour the memory of freedom-loving Filipinos who helped during the Korean War in the early 1950s (as inscribed in the plaque). Lapu-Lapu was a native Muslim chieftain in Mactan, Cebu and representative of the Sultan of Sulu, and is now known as the first native of the archipelago to resist Spanish colonisation. He is retroactively regarded as the first national hero of the Philippines. See more of my iPod / iPhone / iPad cases here . See my postcards of the Philippines here . See my greeting cards of the Philippines here .