South Korea Ejects Leftist Propaganda from Education System
by Richardson ~ April 29th, 2008. Filed under: Education, Korean Culture, Korean Politics.The Unification Ministry has adjusted the content of unification education for both adults and students with President Lee Myung-bak’s North Korea policy, emphasizing the importance of national security and North Korea’s human rights issues.
Some left-leaning lecturers, who have been slammed for propagating distorted views on North Korea for the past decade, are going to be replaced and textbooks describing North Korea’s history in a positive tone revised.
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The Education Center for Unification under the Unification Ministry has reinforced the content of unification education, aiming at instilling in adults the importance of national security focusing on North Korea’s nuclear issue and the relation between South Korea and the United States and informing them of North Korea’s human rights abuses, according to some participants of the meeting.
April 29th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Once North Korea is gone, the full truth will be in the books. Hopefully, some of the old buildings in North Korea will be preserved for generations to remember what regime it was and remember the people who suffered under their leadership and understand communism never works.
April 29th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Yes, I hope much of it is preserved, but fear it won’t.
April 30th, 2008 at 5:35 am
The linked article is very good news!
April 30th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
What a disaster… The ten years of building bridges are going to vanish down the drain. South Koreans know very little about NK. North Koreans know even less about SK. By emphasizing the “importance of national security focusing on North Korea’s nuclear issue and the relation between South Korea and the United States and informing them of North Korea’s human rights abuses” Lee MB is revitalizing the Cold War mentality which leads to hostility and misunderstanding. Is that what Koreans need right now?
April 30th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
I don’t think years of the (South) Korean Teacher’s Union’s pro-North Korean/anti-U.S. propaganda being removed from schools is a bad thing at all.
You’re right that they know very little of North Korea; including the concentration camps. LMB isn’t brining back the days of school children drawing pictures of North Koreans with horns, but (hopefully) stopping the days of drawing Americans that way.
This is putting some reality back into the education in place of 386er propaganda (like the stuff documented here; http://www.usinkorea.org/)
This is some of what that education has bred;
http://www.dprkstudies.org/documents/anti-us003.html
April 30th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
How do you like them apples, Leonid?
May 1st, 2008 at 4:13 pm
I’m not trying to be confrontational, but I do thinks it’s high time the South Korean education system stop functioning as a pro-North/anti-U.S. indoctrination center for children.
May 3rd, 2008 at 7:11 pm
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