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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Jeollanam-do
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 Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:42 am Post subject: 218 Textbooks of 10 Countries Have False Facts About Korea |
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Well, I guess it should be South Korea.
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218 Textbooks of 10 Countries Have False Facts About Korea
School textbooks in 10 countries were found to have contained false or distorted facts about South Korea.
The Academy of Korean Studies reported Monday that most of foreign textbooks have labeled Dokdo, South Korea��s easternmost islets in the East Sea as Takeshima and the East Sea as the Sea of Japan.
The academy reviewed 218 textbooks used in secondary schools from 10 countries _ China, Malaysia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, France, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Chile.
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http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200604/kt2006040319560811970.htm |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:21 am Post subject: |
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Koreans really need to get used to the fact that the rest of the world calls it the Sea of Japan, and that somehow that doesn't therefore make us think that it's owned by Japan.
The rest of the errors were pretty egregious if true. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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Usually when I read stuff like this I try to reflect on "how does a Canadian high school student think"? Korean hatred for Japan, Korean nationalism, Koreans glossing over historical facts, I find your Canadian youth think in a similar manner. Canadian students would happily nuke America. Canada is a great shining beacon of goodness in the world and America is evil. Tim Hortons makes the best donuts in the world. Canada never enslaved anyone and we were always very kind to our Indians. Of course, I'm comparing the attitudes of Korean government officials and opinion leaders to the minds of 14 year old Canadians. But still. I can grok.
However, I simply can't imagine anyone in Canada of any age out to police the world's textbooks. Geez. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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i call it: The East Sea of Japan
my students go crazy  |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Canadian students would happily nuke America. |
I think this one is a bit of a stretch. If we did that, how would everybody watch all of their favourite tv shows? |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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| ajgeddes wrote: |
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| Canadian students would happily nuke America. |
I think this one is a bit of a stretch. If we did that, how would everybody watch all of their favourite tv shows? |
But they're all made in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal in the first place so no fears  |
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anyway
Joined: 22 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:34 am Post subject: |
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| What I want to know is - did they check any of their own damn textbooks for errors? |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 4:07 am Post subject: |
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| Another Vietnamese textbook wrongly elaborates South Korea as a subordinate state to the United States. |
That's exactly what some North Koreans says about South Korea.
South Koreans counter that North Korea is not altogether independent of Russia and Red China, either. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 4:49 am Post subject: |
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| What I want to know is - did they check any of their own damn textbooks for errors? |
There was an encouraging move by Roh the other day to fess up to the slaughter on Jeju Island. His line of argument seemed to be something like "we can hardly accuse the Japanese of hiding from their history if we're doing it ourselves." |
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antoniothegreat
Joined: 28 Aug 2005
Location: Yangpyeong
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| Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 5:37 am Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| anyway wrote: |
| What I want to know is - did they check any of their own damn textbooks for errors? |
There was an encouraging move by Roh the other day to fess up to the slaughter on Jeju Island. His line of argument seemed to be something like "we can hardly accuse the Japanese of hiding from their history if we're doing it ourselves." |
sorry for my ignorance, but what is the slaughter on jeju island? i am quite curious. |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 5:51 am Post subject: |
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| antoniothegreat wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
| anyway wrote: |
| What I want to know is - did they check any of their own damn textbooks for errors? |
There was an encouraging move by Roh the other day to fess up to the slaughter on Jeju Island. His line of argument seemed to be something like "we can hardly accuse the Japanese of hiding from their history if we're doing it ourselves." |
sorry for my ignorance, but what is the slaughter on jeju island? i am quite curious. |
It was when the mainland government cooperated with the Mongol Empire to put down an uprising in Jeju-do.
...I think. |
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Nowhere Man
Joined: 08 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 6:09 am Post subject: ... |
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A little addendum:
5000 years of history?
You hear this mantra repeated if you teach in Taiwan/China.
Others apply it here.
I had a rather ugly incident with a girlfriend whose father was a SNU graduate history teacher at a prominent high school.
It boiled down to:
I understand the Chinese having 5000 years of history. What is the basis for Korea making this claim?
SNU Father's answer: Nobody knows. It was too early to establish such an exact basis.
And that was where we got stuck...
Until one day when I was reading an in-flight magazine about what I want to call Koje Island (realize that's probably not the exact name), but on this island in the "west sea", a god descended to create the Korean people.
I'm not really posting this to lampoon Koreans. I just really want to get the story straight.
Apparently, there IS a basis for the 5000 years claim that is independent from China. And I realize it parallels the Japanese one.
Just trying to understand it best. |
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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all
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| Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 6:43 am Post subject: |
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| If one were looking for a good supply of false facts about Korea, the very best place to look would be in Korean school textbooks. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:06 am Post subject: |
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| mithridates wrote: |
| antoniothegreat wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
| anyway wrote: |
| What I want to know is - did they check any of their own damn textbooks for errors? |
There was an encouraging move by Roh the other day to fess up to the slaughter on Jeju Island. His line of argument seemed to be something like "we can hardly accuse the Japanese of hiding from their history if we're doing it ourselves." |
sorry for my ignorance, but what is the slaughter on jeju island? i am quite curious. |
It was when the mainland government cooperated with the Mongol Empire to put down an uprising in Jeju-do.
...I think. |
Post WWII and Korean War. Apparently it was claimed that Cheju was a hotbed of pro-North resistance. |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:16 am Post subject: |
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| Bulsajo wrote: |
| mithridates wrote: |
| antoniothegreat wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
| anyway wrote: |
| What I want to know is - did they check any of their own damn textbooks for errors? |
There was an encouraging move by Roh the other day to fess up to the slaughter on Jeju Island. His line of argument seemed to be something like "we can hardly accuse the Japanese of hiding from their history if we're doing it ourselves." |
sorry for my ignorance, but what is the slaughter on jeju island? i am quite curious. |
It was when the mainland government cooperated with the Mongol Empire to put down an uprising in Jeju-do.
...I think. |
Post WWII and Korean War. Apparently it was claimed that Cheju was a hotbed of pro-North resistance. |
Oh, recent history. I was thinking of �ﺰ�� (߲ܬ��). |
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