From Yonhap:
SEOUL, May 24 (Yonhap) — A U.S. history textbook for Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) has wrongly identified Silla Kingdom (57 B.C.-A.D.935) as Korea’s first national entity without mentioning the existence of Koguryo Kingdom (B.C.37-A.D.668), a South Korean civic group said Thursday.
VANK, or the Voluntary Agency Network of Korea, said the 2007 edition of the […]
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South Korea’ VANK Ultra-Nationalists vs. The SAT
Published by May 24th, 2007 in History Dispute and Korea. 0 CommentsWacky Historical Theories of Racial Superiority: Now on Korean TV
Published by May 14th, 2007 in History Dispute and Korea. 5 CommentsThe English subtitles say it was made by KBS, but the logo in the corner looks a lot like the History Channel:
“According to this viewpoint, the Sumerian tribe who established the Mesopotamiam civilization was the Korean race.“
Korean blogger makes death threat against Yoko Kawashima Watkins
Published by February 5th, 2007 in U.S., History Dispute, Korea and Japan. 16 CommentsIt’s been a while since my last post. Sorry for the lack of updates, I’ve been busy boycotting FamilyMart. Anyway, here’s a glowing example of a stupid person’s reaction to the “So Far From the Bamboo Grove” controversy. This Korean blogger thinks it’s OK to make death threats against the author […]
American High School drops “So Far from the Bamboo Grove” after facing nationalist Korean pressure campaign
Published by January 22nd, 2007 in History Dispute, Korea and Japan. 13 CommentsAs you may have read in my earlier post on the subject, or on The Marmot’s Hole / Occidentalism, Korean ultranationalists have been putting on a pressure campaign against American schools that use “So Far from the Bamboo Grove” as a reading in their classes. Yonhap News has reported a Korean ultranationalist victory in […]
How about “Peace Sea”?
Published by January 8th, 2007 in History Dispute, Korea and Japan. 0 CommentsAccording to the Marmot’s Hole, South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun reportedly requested that Japanese PM Shinzo Abe support the use of the name “Peace Sea” for the body of water between their countries, rather than “Sea of Japan,” which is the current internationally accepted name for the sea. Previously Korean ultranationalists had been pushing […]
Children’s book under attack the story of a Japanese family fleeing a hostile postwar Korea
Published by January 7th, 2007 in U.S., History Dispute, Korea and Japan. 1 CommentJanuary 7th:
From the Boston Globe, with bold added for emphasis by myself:
School board to vote on Korea book
The Dover-Sherborn Regional School Committee is poised to vote Tuesday night on whether “So Far From the Bamboo Grove,” a book that has sparked a fiery debate in town, should be studied by sixth-graders.
The committee will meet to […]
Anti-Japanese education in China (Video)
Published by December 10th, 2006 in History Dispute, China and Japan. 0 CommentsIn this subtitled Japanese news report, the issue of anti-Japanese education in China is explored through an examination of the contents of Chinese teachers’ manuals:
One manual even has a DVD showing the ideal way to teach lessons about Japanese war crimes: by making children repeat the phrase “how barbarous they are.”
Wishful Thinking (Video)
Published by November 16th, 2006 in History Dispute, China, Korea and Japan. 2 CommentsIt looks like some Chinese kid is making crude nationalist fantasy videos and posting them on YouTube, and sadly they’re getting a lot of views and comments. For example, this lovely little video (no need to watch it until the end, it’s just a still image for the last few minutes):
This is the description […]
China and Japan to conduct a joint study on history
Published by November 15th, 2006 in History Dispute, China and Japan. 0 CommentsGreat news from the APEC meeting currently underway in Vietnam:
HANOI — China and Japan agreed Thursday to make a joint research on history, which in the past blocked advancement of bilateral relations from time to time.
The announcement was made after the meeting between Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing and his Japanese counterpart Aso Taro on […]
Korean netizens contact employer of American Dokdo/Takeshima researcher, force him to stop posting
Published by November 15th, 2006 in Dokdo/Takeshima, History Dispute, Korea and Japan. 6 CommentsCross-posted at Japanprobe:
As some of you who read Occidenalism/The Marmot may already know, blogger Gerry Bevers, who had devoted a great deal of his time conducting and posting research on the historical background of the Dokdo/Takeshima dispute, has been asked by the president of the South Korean university he works for to stop writing about […]
