I Love KL Statue

This guide to the I Love KL Statue at Kuala Lumpur's Merdeka Square starts with August 31, 1957, when one flag came down and another rose over the old colonial administration building behind you. It traces how that building later became the Kuala Lumpur City Gallery in 1989, and how its most-photographed exhibit ended up standing outside rather than in. The square's own name, Merdeka, is a word worth pausing on before you move on.