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Rival political parties exchanged barbs Thursday as opposition lawmakers criticized the government's push to publish state history textbooks for secondary school students.
Amid backlash from the main opposition New Politics Alliance for Democracy and scholars, the Ministry of Education has said it will announce next week the change in the system for the publication of the history textbooks for middle and high schools across the nation.
"President Park Geun-hye's order to the Ministry of Education was to publish balanced textbooks based on facts," Education Minister Hwang Woo-yea said during a parliamentary audit into the ministry.
Hwang, without commenting on the exact date of the announcement, said that the ministry is working out ways to publish textbooks written without bias.
He stressed the importance of ensuring students have a balanced recognition of history.
Currently, eight private publishing companies print history textbooks after winning approval from the government. Middle and high schools choose from any of the eight textbooks.
The NPAD lawmakers have declared a full-fledged war against the government move, saying it was reminiscent of the days of the authoritarian rule.
"Hitler's Nazi, Japan's imperialism, North Korea and the Yushin administration adopted government-published textbooks, and the system was changed through democracy," Rep. Sul Hoon of the NPAD said.
"Textbooks have to be made within five months if the government pushes ahead with the plan," Rep. Yoo Eun-hae said, adding that it takes years for advanced countries to finish a textbook.
Ruling party lawmakers insist most of the current school textbooks were written by left-leaning teachers and scholars, depriving students of their right to enjoy academic diversity.
The ruling Saenuri Party, meanwhile, formed a task force and held a meeting on establishing a body responsible for the publication of Korean history textbooks.
The body would select the writers of the history textbooks and a separate deliberation committee would review their contents before printing them. (Yonhap)
Amid backlash from the main opposition New Politics Alliance for Democracy and scholars, the Ministry of Education has said it will announce next week the change in the system for the publication of the history textbooks for middle and high schools across the nation.
"President Park Geun-hye's order to the Ministry of Education was to publish balanced textbooks based on facts," Education Minister Hwang Woo-yea said during a parliamentary audit into the ministry.
Hwang, without commenting on the exact date of the announcement, said that the ministry is working out ways to publish textbooks written without bias.
He stressed the importance of ensuring students have a balanced recognition of history.
Currently, eight private publishing companies print history textbooks after winning approval from the government. Middle and high schools choose from any of the eight textbooks.
The NPAD lawmakers have declared a full-fledged war against the government move, saying it was reminiscent of the days of the authoritarian rule.
"Hitler's Nazi, Japan's imperialism, North Korea and the Yushin administration adopted government-published textbooks, and the system was changed through democracy," Rep. Sul Hoon of the NPAD said.
"Textbooks have to be made within five months if the government pushes ahead with the plan," Rep. Yoo Eun-hae said, adding that it takes years for advanced countries to finish a textbook.
Ruling party lawmakers insist most of the current school textbooks were written by left-leaning teachers and scholars, depriving students of their right to enjoy academic diversity.
The ruling Saenuri Party, meanwhile, formed a task force and held a meeting on establishing a body responsible for the publication of Korean history textbooks.
The body would select the writers of the history textbooks and a separate deliberation committee would review their contents before printing them. (Yonhap)
