As author Stephen Gowans makes clear in his recent book Patriots, Traitors and Empires: The Story of Korea’s Struggle for Freedom, the history of Korea is quite different than that most US ...

School books aren't often the subject of street protest, but in South Korea a row over a government plan to write a single history textbook brought protesters to the streets of Seoul last month ...

An 87-page book from 1239 is full of Hanja characters printed on hanji, ... [Visual History of Korea] Jeungdoga book may be oldest movable metal type print book By Kim Hoo-ran.

South Korea’s book industry used to be dispersed, but, according to Lee Sang-yeon, a manager of one of Paju’s primary cultural facilities, the Asia Publication Culture and Information Center ...

South Korea’s new President Moon Jae-in has scrapped state-issued school history textbooks introduced by his ousted predecessor, saying they represented an “outdated and one-sided” view of ...

Seoul’s Vice Prime Minister and Education Minister, Hwang Woo-yea said that the textbook should teach “the proud history of South Korea, which has achieved both democratization and ...

By 2017, The Correct History Textbook will be the only history book allowed in South Korea's high schools. It will be written by a government-appointed panel of history teachers and academics.

Moon Jae-in said history education should not be used for political purposes South Korea's new president says he is scrapping government-authored history textbooks ordered by his predecessor. They ...