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 ...

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.

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 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has scrapped state-issued school history textbooks introduced by his ousted predecessor, saying they represented an “outdated and one-sided” view of ...

The use of martial law in South Korea dates back to 1948, when the country's first president, Syngman Rhee, employed it to suppress communist uprisings after just two months of the government's ...

February 21, 2024 — "We are storytellers."Renowned photojournalist Hyungwon Kang, emphasizing the allure of storytelling in history, applies this principle to his ongoing project "Visual History of ...

A 30-volume “Science and Civilization in Korea” series encompassing the country's history and achievements in the fields of science and technology has been published in August. The series ...

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 ...

While Squid Game, Parasite and BTS have dominated Korea's pop culture revolution, books and stories are now having their own moment, writes James Balmont. The Korean Wave: 25 stories that define ...