Textbook Row over Female Independence Fighter Continues

SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The government’s decision to readopt state-authored textbooks for secondary school students has escalated the controversy surrounding the omission of a revered female independence fighter in history textbooks for high school students. Until the 2014 school year, two of eight government-approved history textbooks had excluded descriptions of Yu Gwan-sun (1902-1920), [...]