All posts tagged "textbooks"

  • Lawmakers from the main opposition New Politics Alliance for Democracy, including Chairman Moon Jae-in, center, stage a protest against the decision at Gwanghwamun Square in central Seoul. (Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul)
    Ideological war starts over history textbooks in S. Korea

    Government will author single book By Jung Min-ho The South Korean government announced Monday that it will monopolize the right to author history textbooks for secondary schools, throwing the nation into an ideological war over how students...

    • Posted October 12, 2015
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  • This photo, taken on June 3, 2015, shows a classroom at an elementary school in Yeongdong, North Chungcheong Province, central South Korea, where no students are seen, as more than 500 schools have canceled classes due to increasing cases of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). The health ministry confirmed that five more people have been infected with the potentially deadly virus in the country, bringing the tally to 30 with two confirmed deaths. (Yonhap)
    Over 120 historical errors regarding S. Korea found in Japan’s textbooks

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — A total of 126 mistakes about Korea have been found in Japan’s textbooks over the past five years, a lawmaker said Monday, showing another example of Japan’s continued attempts to distort history. “Japan distorted...

    • Posted October 5, 2015
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    E-Books or Textbooks?

    Technology is a pervasive force that is gaining momentum as individuals recognize the versatility and efficiency of technological devices; even in schools, textbooks are gradually becoming replaced by electronic textbooks that can be accessed on tablets. However,...

    • Posted January 20, 2015
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  • This picture of "comfort women" were reportedly taken by an American Army photographer in 1944. (Yonhap)
    [Guardian] Japan urges US publisher to remove comfort women from textbooks

      Japan has taken its campaign to rewrite its wartime history into the classroom with demands that a United States publisher remove “inaccurate” descriptions of tens of thousands of women who were forced to work...

    • Posted January 16, 2015
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    Some Americans annoyed by ‘East Sea’ bill

    By Jane Han NEW YORK ― After years of lobbying and hardcore campaigning by Korean-Americans, Virginia lawmakers finally passed a bill last week related to the naming of the body of water between Korea and Japan. Great...

    • Posted February 10, 2014
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