This statue of the revered Admiral Yi Sun Sin - unveiled at the Naval Academy in Changwon, South Korea, on Friday - is the first in the country to depict him with a bow and arrows, instead of a sword.

The admiral is most famous for defeating 330 Japanese warships, despite having only a dozen of his own, in the 1597 Battle of Myeongnyang.

The image of him with a bow and arrows is more accurate, given references in his war diaries, say scholars.