TOKYO, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The Japanese government on Tuesday approved new textbooks, apparently watering down the coercive nature of its wartime wrongdoings and intensifying its sovereignty claim to Dokdo, for use by the country’s elementary school students starting in 2024. Tokyo’s education ministry announced that 149 textbooks have passed its review, a move [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The term “free democracy” will return to secondary school textbooks beginning in 2025 to define South Korea’s national identity, five years after it was deleted during the previous administrative. According to the education ministry’s administrative notice disclosed Wednesday, “free democracy” and “free democratic basic order” will replace “democracy” in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Ukraine, which has been devastated by the Russian invasion, plans to add to its school textbooks the South Korean economic model dubbed the Miracle on the Han River, which refers to the country’s rapid economic growth after the 1950-53 Korean War. According to the South Korean Embassy in Ukraine, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – According to data submitted by the Academy of Korean Studies to Rep. Shim Jae-kwon of the Democratic Party of Korea, who also sits on the National Assembly’s Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee, there are still many OECD-member states that denote Korea’s East Sea only as the Sea of Japan [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Education said Saturday it will gradually remove foreign words from elementary school textbooks to help young pupils better acquire the Korean language. In the first phase, a total of 322 foreign words in textbooks for third and fourth graders will be replaced with Korean ones in [...]
SHENYANG, China, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Chinese authorities have delayed the customs clearance of textbooks to be used at South Korean schools in China, pushing back the schools’ classes for the new academic semester, sources with knowledge of the matter said Tuesday. South Korean residents expressed concerns that the postponement of the customs clearance [...]