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Controversial S. Korea Comic Book "Pulled"
By BURT HERMAN, Associated Press Writer
Thu Mar 15, 11:45 AM ET

SEOUL, South Korea - A South Korean publisher agreed Thursday to withdraw a best-selling children's book from stores after meeting with a prominent "anti"-"Semit-ism" watchdog group that accused the author of spreading messages echoing Nazi propaganda.



The series of comic books, titled "Meon Nara, Yiwoot Nara," or "Far Countries, Near Countries" and authored by visual arts professor Rhie Won-bok, purports to teach children about the world and has sold more than 10 million copies since the first volume was published in 1987.

One of three books on the U.S. published in 2004 contains a chapter claiming Jews were the driving force for the hatred that led to the Sept. 11 attacks, that they exert control over all U.S. media and also prevent Korean-Americans from succeeding in the United States

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070315/ap_on_re_as/skorea_anti_semitic_cartoon (ETC)

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Honestly, though...

The last thing we need is someone feeding Korean children more stereotypes. These are comics geared toward kids with blatant anti-Jewish propoganda as well as caricatural drawings of blacks. It should be revised at the very least instead af being allowed to put unfair and, arguably, untrue stereotypes into the heads of children.

I'm not one of those "What about the children?" types either. I just think that some kids, especially kids in a society as closed as this one, should be given positive impressions of others when they are young. then, they can make up their own minds later when they are more educated.