Among the 55 sections to be rewritten are negative views on the liberation from Japanese colonial rule and the victory of the allied forces; parts partially blaming South Korea for the division of the peninsula; and a description of the North Korean regime that differs from reality.

The ministry will now prepare for the publication of the new textbooks and plans to begin distributing the revised editions to schools in mid-January.

But distribution could be disrupted if the court rules in favor of authors who have requested the revisions be halted.


Followings are quotes from Rhee Syung-man. That entailed lots of criticisms by labeling him as ‘the major responsible person for causing Koreas’ division’


“Since the indefinitely- stalled US-Moscow Joint Commission does not seem to be resuming again and despite our desire for being able to see the unified government, but the situation seems to be slipping into lull, so we, South Koreans need to set up some sort of committee or provisional government and then appeal for the world in order for Moscow to withdraw from the north of 38 parallel……… ….


The above-mentioned statements were made on June 3 , 1946 in Jeongeup, North Jeolla province.

So, The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology directed the publishing company to erase ‘right away’, citing the reason that ‘right away’ can give a misunderstanding to students in the way that Lee’s statement regarding setting up South Korea’s provisional government led to the two Koreas division.

In addition, The North Korea Provisional Committee was set up beforehand on February 1946, Rhee’s comment was made on June.
“Korea’s liberation as a result of allied forces’ victory became a stumbling block for our nation to start building a new country the way we, our people, wanted.”





Kim Il Sung who held an ideological cause in establishing a socialism country and enjoyed public support started to purge his opponents in full force as a result of this incident based on his priority of expanding power.



As the 1st US-USSR Joint Commission was halted (on May 1946), Rhee Syung-man right away advocated for establishing a separate government in the South.
























(Photo description) The two nations’ committee members are chatting before the US-USSR Joint Commission meeting in Ducksu Palace. The U.S. Occupational force commanding general John R. Hodge (Left), the USSR representative Lieutenant General 스티코프 (right).








The Truths Commission on Suspicious Deaths which was set up under the president’s direct supervision in May 2000, focused investigating into one person’s death happened in 1975. The person is Jang Jun-ha.
…..Even under the Park Jung-hee regime, Jang’s democracy movement continued, fighting against the dictatorship….As a result, Park gained the ‘shadow president’ in 1970s. -- citing insufficient objective evidence





After the liberation from Japanese colonial rule, the fault of not having purged pro-Japanese group properly became a halter strangling the contemporary history hard. ---- Revision is required due to its subjective opinion.







Besides Mt. Jiri, the armed flying armies’ activities, supporting North Korea, continued at various spot s of S.Korea.







The allegation (suspicion) that North Korea, suffering from the heavy burden of funding a massive amount of defense expenses, is developing nuclear weapons was raised in the global society. ------Not anymore speculation















Uruguay round seen from Newspaper’s rambling criticism. (330 page)

Among the 10 representatives of different countries, sitting at the dinner table, only two person who have the U.S. and European Community’s flag on their chest wipe their mouth with handkerchief, seemingly looks to have a full meal with smile on their face.

----Provoking anti-America sentiment and feeding a misconception that open economy is only beneficial to the developed countries?







Some of press institutions monopolized the large proportion of advertisement’s revenue and grew into the press corporation. And the collusive relationship between the press and authority got worsened and commercialism trend became more rampant.



(Daehan textbook)

After the cold war structure collapsed, the positive international situation, which seems to be playing a favorable role in the peaceful unification took shape in the Korean peninsula. Furthermore, after June 15th inter-Korean joint declaration, since two Koreas real talks and exchange and cooperation became reality thing, the prospect of the peaceful unification is bright. However, still lots of patience and efforts are required in order to realize the peaceful unification. We needed to gather ourselves up for realizing the peaceful reunification.













(Cheonjae Education)-name of publishing company


Regarding Uruguay round


Especially, despite farmers’ strong resistance, the opening of an agricultural goods market dealt a heavy blow to agriculture sector.









Chaebol helps to consolidate the corruption structure by having a collusive relationship with finance-dominated authority and expand their control over the economic structure via expansion rather than technology development, sometimes producing insolvent corporations. The Chaebol’s restructuring process was done in the early 1980s and late 1990s as part of measures of overcoming economic difficulties, but due to the Chaebol’s large proportion of dominance, it made no progress.





(JoongAng )
Self-revision

The time of early national founding, the Republic of Korea’s Rhee Syung-man government had not received nationals’ confidence due to economic difficulties and failure of purging the pro-Japanese groups.





The economic development policy gave rise to the corrupted Chaebol’s appearance and a close tie between political and business society.






The increased number of middle class and workers, stemming from the economic development, started to harbor discontent over Park Jeong-hee government’s development dictatorship and it gradually led them to have cravings for democracy.





Bobmunsa


June 25th war had a significant impact on two Koreas’ political environment. Rhee Syung-man government took an anti-communism line, oppressed opposition party and seek dictatorship. “Not having been able to beat the Japan with our own power became a cause, preventing us from taking the lead in establishing the unified nation.






However, this challenge came to a failure, initiated without much preparation. Kim Il Sung, who had an already-solid power, killed those people by framing them as a opponent and further purged opposition forces extensively.



As the 1st US-USSR Joint Commission was halted (on May 1946), Rhee Syung-man advocated for establishing a separate government in the South. However, North Korea already launched a de-facto separate government.(added)

According to textbook writers, those above bold-typed phrases should not be added, citing that “The North Korean provisional People’s Committee was established in 1946” explanation was already mentioned in other section of textbook, so they do not think the additional explanation is needed.

The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology directed the publishing company to erase ‘right away’ part, saying that the division of two Koreas’ responsibility can give a misunderstanding that it has something to do with Rhee Syung-man government’s establishment.









The U.S. committee member commanding general John R. Hodge














The Truths Commission on Suspicious Deaths which was set up under the president’s direct supervision in May 2000, focused investigating into one person’s death happened in 1975. The person is Jang Jun-ha. He died in a mysterious fall on a mountain path, Yaksabong in Pochun Gyounggi Province, August 1975, when Yushin (Revitalizing reform) system was at its height.







After the liberation from Japanese colonial rule, our nationals have not been able to solve the national’s duty of purging pro-Japanese group.










Besides Mt. Jiri, the leftist armed flying armies’ activities continued at various spot s of S.Korea.








Added,
The North Korea’s nuclear weapons development, the declaration of withdrawing from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and unilateral declaration of nuclear weapons’ possession amplified global society’s anxiety and tension, as well as the Korean peninsula.














Deleting the Uruguay round’s criticism and inserting the positive and negative sides of an agricultural and livestock goods’ import market opening.


















Some of press institutions made a significant growth with a huge sum of advertisement revenue. And the collusive relationship with the authority got worsened and commercialism trend run rampant.







After the collapse of the cold war structure, the positive international environment was formed, what seems to play a positive role in the inter-Korean talks. The two Koreas summit talk was held in 2000 and personal and material exchanges are brisk since talks were held in various sectors. However, the peninsula’s peace was threatened by North Korea’s withdrawal from the non-proliferation treaty. Despite twice summit talks, public opinion was split regarding the resolution of North Korea’s nuclear issue and peaceful reunification matter, leading to the curtailment of exchanges and cooperation. For the sake of the peninsula’s settlement and two Koreas reunification, nationals’ wisdom, which can pool the people’s mind, needs to be displayed.

















Even though the environment, reserved for exporting industrial products overseas, was formed, there are strong resistance from farmers stemming from the agricultural market’s openness.








Chaebol sometimes provided illicit money for the purpose of making a collusive tie with the authority and lowered the corporation’s competitive edge by doing overlapping investment and running many affiliates through the size expansion. The Chaebol’s restructuring process was done during the currency crisis, the late 1990s, giving into by government’s pressure. However the corporation’s problem has not been solved completely and more efforts are required for the sake of transparent management.












Weakened nationals’ support……….







In the wake of economic development policy, citizens’ living standard has increased significantly compared to the past but………







The increased number of middle class and workers, stemming from the economic development, formed the social base, helping democracy to be settled.











June 25th war had a significant impact on two Koreas’ political environment. Rhee Syung-man government took an anti-communism line, oppressed opposition party and seek dictatorship.---------------Deleted