South Korea accused of rewriting history in new school textbooks

The South Korean government complains all the time about history textbooks used in Japanese junior high and high schools. Saying that given the government's control of writing and publishing of the materials used by Japanese students that their perspective is skewed towards the conservative views and ideology of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).  To say that the political of the elites of the LDP aren't historical revisionists and war crimes deniers would be disingenuous. Because, that's exactly who and what they are.  Now South Korea will undertake a similar process thanks to the conservative government led by President Park Geun-hye whose father Park Chung-hee is the former military dictator of that country.


        Revisionism row intensifies as ministers push ahead with plans for state-issued texts to correct ‘pro-North Korean’ bias

The policy has become a bitter ideological battleground between left and right in South Korea, with the government claiming the changes are necessary to correct a “pro-North Korean” bias. Critics have accused president Park Geun-Hye’s administration of seeking to manipulate and distort the narrative of how the South Korean state was created.
Following an obligatory 20-day period to canvass public opinion, prime minister Hwang Kyo-Ahn and education minister Hwang Woo-Yea confirmed that from 2017 middle and high school students would each receive a single government-issued history textbook.
“We cannot teach our children with biased history textbooks,” Hwang said in a televised statement.

I love that quote:"We cannot teach our children with biased history textbooks, Hwang said in a televised statement."
So, what's the solution? Using biased textbooks from a conservative revisionist point of view to teach history to South Korean  students.

Battleground with multiple fronts

Arguments have focused on issues such as who bears most responsibility for the outbreak of the 1950-53 Korean war, and how the textbooks should reference North Korea’s official “juche” ideology.
Deeply sensitive issues such as collaboration during Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule are also strongly contested, as well as the violence that accompanied the move to democracy in the 1980s and 90s.

I'm sure like in Japan, Korea's conservatives will completely whitewash the military dictatorship era of the 20 century.