Korea Joongang Daily
Korea JoongAng Daily

Korean embassies under fire for failing to correct errors in foreign textbooks

Recent revelations that several Korean embassies overseas failed to correct serious errors about Korea in foreign textbooks have drawn criticism, with Sungshin Women’s University professor Seo Kyoung-duk calling it “a grave dereliction of duty.”

2025-04-18

Korea denounces Dokdo descriptions in Japanese high school textbooks

New social studies textbooks to be used by Japanese high school students starting next year contained false claims that Korea's easternmost Dokdo islets are Japanese territory.

2025-03-25

Japan claims Dokdo, soft-pedals forced labor in textbooks

Korea's Foreign Ministry expressed strong regrets to Japan on Tuesday after Tokyo approved history textbooks that claim the Dokdo islets as its own and contain diluted descriptions of forced labor...

2023-03-28

Correct inaccurate history textbooks (KOR)

The Ministry of Education under the conservative president must correct deep-rooted distortions of history before it is too late.

2022-09-01

Correct inaccurate history textbooks

The Ministry of Education under the conservative president must correct deep-rooted distortions of history before it is too late.

2022-08-31

Korea calls out Japan's decision to publish watered-down textbooks

Korea’s Foreign Ministry expressed strong regret to the Japanese government on Friday for allowing the publication of textbooks that do not acknowledge the coercive nature of Japan's wartime sexual slavery and forced labor. “It is very regrettable…

2021-09-12

Tokyo's newest high school textbooks distort claims over Dokdo

High school freshmen textbooks authorized Tuesday by Tokyo's Education Ministry for next year will include text renewing Japan's claim over Korea's Dokdo islets in the East Sea, a move immediately protested by Seoul's Foreign Ministry.

2021-03-30