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American AP Curriculum Makes False Claims About South Korea

SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. Advanced Placement (AP) curriculum has been reported to contain false information about South Korea, a civic group said Wednesday. The Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK) revealed that page 259 of Kaplan’s AP Human Geography Prep Plus 2020 & 2021 contains serious errors about the South Korea’s [...]

U.S. AP Curriculum Distorts Korean History

SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK), a civic group promoting the country and its history online for an international audience, said Wednesday that an Advanced Placement (AP) textbook published in the U.S. this year severely distorts Korean history. “AP World History: Modern” for 2021 published by McGraw-Hill lists [...]