crazylemongirl
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 Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 7:57 pm Post subject: Interesting lecture tomorrow |
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The royal asiatic society of Seoul has an interesting lecture tomororw (tuesday) It's at 7.30 in the 2nd-floor Resident�s Lounge of the Somerset Palace Residence (near Anguk Station, downtown). Free and open to all the public
Entitled 'rewriting Korean histiory'
Extract is as follows:
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Anti-Americanism in Korea has risen so sharply over the past several years that many South Korean citizens seem to see the United States as the main threat to its security, not North Korea. The current governing circle is clearly reluctant to part with the policy of appeasement toward North Korea even if that might mean going against the spirit of the UN Security Council�s resolution to impose sanctions on North Korea for conducting a nuclear test.
This strange situation cannot be understood unless it is seen against the background of a fierce intra-Korean struggle which has been going on over how to interpret Korea�s modern history. The revisionist attempt to rewrite Korea�s history from the point of view of the �unified Korean nation� has steadily been gaining ground. The speaker will explain how this revisionist movement is, to a certain extent, an unavoidable consequence of and a healthy reaction to the obscurantist manner in which anti-Communist education was conducted in Korea in earlier decades. But North Korea has been extremely adroit in exploiting weaknesses in South Korea�s education system and implanting a deliberately falsified version of history in the minds of nationalistically inclined young minds. In that regard, the revisionist controversy has a grave political implication. Unless effective measures to counter the propaganda and agitation are found, Korea might have won every single battle only to lose the war itself.
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