With Chinese sea thugs brutalizing Korean law enforcement officials, the world economy going to shit and North Korea moving to restart its nuclear program, one GNP lawmaker is demanding the Foreign Ministry strengthen its monitoring of foreign textbooks, lest little Paraguayan, Uruguayan and Jordanian kiddies learn mistaken things about Korea:
A lawmaker of the governing Grand National Party (GNP) urged the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to strengthen monitoring on foreign textbooks as they contain distortions of South Korean history.
During a parliamentary inspection of the ministry Tuesday, Rep. Rhee Beum-kwan said many inaccuracies are regrettably shown in history textbooks of 25 countries.
According to the lawmaker, a Uruguayan textbook states that Korea uses a Chinese language as its mother tongue and a Singaporean one says the nation was a colony of Russia and then Japan.
An Italian history book describes Korea as still under military dictatorship and a Jordanian schoolbook published in 2003 says Buddhism is a state religion in Korea, he added.
Rhee showed a Paraguayan textbook which says Korea used to be a colony of Portugal, which made members of the National Assembly’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Unification and Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan chuckle.
Your tax money at work. On the bright side, I guess it beats a US$700 billion bailout.
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Because we all know what care Koreans take in getting other countries’ facts and histories right.
“Rhee showed a Paraguayan textbook which says Korea used to be a colony of Portugal, which made members of the National Assembly’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Unification and Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan chuckle.”
I liked that bit too.
And give it a rest, bum suk, its tiring.
Mmm, from the governing party you say…Sounds like another attempt at using nationalism to divert our attention away from the real issue: the economy. We’ll be hearing about Dokdo any minute now.
Matthew 7:3 “And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?”
That’s pretty sad. I cited wikipedia in a debate on 部落民 with my friend and he claimed it “wasn’t a valid source”, apparently it’s a more valid source than a lot of text books!
More time and money has not been spent on three sentance in a history text book since Jimmy Carter worried about his legacy.
>> More time and money has not been spent on three sentance
>>has not been spent on three sentance
>>three sentance
>>sentance
You’re right. Why worry about such irrelevant details as spelling and veracity?
”Rhee showed a Paraguayan textbook which says Korea used to be a colony of Portugal, which made members of the National Assembly’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Unification and Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan chuckle.”
Yeah, a sense of humor. That’s the ticket.
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