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President Orders Scrapping of State-Authored History Textbooks

SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) – President Moon Jae-in on Friday ordered the scrapping of controversial history textbooks authored by a government committee set up under the former conservative administration. “As efforts to normalize history education, the president has ordered the abolition of state authored history textbooks,” Moon’s chief press secretary Yoon Young-chan told a [...]

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), [...]