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gsxr750r

Joined: 29 Jan 2007
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Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 9:38 pm Post subject: Rewriting Korean history to seem less China-dependent |
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http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2007/02/24/200702240040.asp
Don't think history makes you look good enough? That's OK... just rewrite it.
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The Education Ministry announced yesterday it will revise high school history textbooks shifting the Bronze Age on the Korean Peninsula one millennium ahead.
The government's decision was made amid China's apparent attempts to downplay Korea's ancient period as the communist country has claimed Korean ancient kingdoms as Chinese history. |
Honestly, I don't know enough about China or Korea to know who to believe. All I know is that both sides seem to enjoy rewriting history to meet their political agenda and pander to their own feelings of superiority. |
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Yu_Bum_suk

Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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Of course when the Japanese do it they're not just intellectual cowards but perpetuating a holocuast.
Can you think of any trio's historiographies you'd have to set your BS detector higher for than China's, Korea's, and Japan's? |
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Sine qua non

Joined: 18 Feb 2007
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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 4:40 am Post subject: |
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Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
Can you think of any trio's historiographies you'd have to set your BS detector higher for than China's, Korea's, and Japan's? |
No doubt! |
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Troll_Bait

Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 4:38 pm Post subject: Re: Rewriting Korean history to seem less China-dependent |
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I'm disappointed, but not surprised. They've literally rewritten their own history, based on the discovery of a few bronze pots, by a thousand years, so they can prop up the lie of Korea's mythical "5,000 years of history." |
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jaganath69

Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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I'll be interested to see what non-Korean historians have to say about these developments. |
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Zolt

Joined: 18 May 2006
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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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jaganath69 wrote: |
I'll be interested to see what non-Korean historians have to say about these developments. |
"bah!" |
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