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우려되는 일본 고등학교 교과서 검정 결과 발표와 한일관계
The Worrying Announcement of Japan's High School Textbook Screening Results and Korea-Japan Relations On a late March or early April day, we'll have another scuffle over Japan's history textbooks. How many times have we had this headache? I look back and realize that it has been recurring almost every year since the turn of the century. Some remedies or others have been sought, but the symptoms have been getting worse. The history-distorting virus has continued to evolve. This time, it comes from the Abe Shinzo (安倍晋三) cabinet, arguably the most right-wing government in Japan's history. As we are about to fight the 2013 battle, how should we prepare ourselves?
Written by_ Ha Jong-moon, Professor of Hanshin University
임나일본부설은 과거가 아닌 현재와 미래의 문제, 우리의 틀로 바라보는 일본사 연구가 절실하다
Mimana Nihonfu concerns not just the past but the present and future of Korea: why Japanese history needs to be studied from Korean perspective Editor's Notes: As Japan's rightward shift continues to accelerate, the tensions are growing in the Northeast Asian region. For this month's issue of Northeast Asian History Foundation News, we met Korea University professor emeritus Kim Hyun-gu, one of the first generation of Koreans who majored in Japanese history, for his thoughts on issues related to Japanese history from ancient to modern and contemporary times, their implications, and how these issues should be dealt with. The interview was conducted by Kim Min-kyu, an expert in the history of international relations in East Asia who is also in charge of the Office of Public Relations at the Northeast Asian History Foundation.
Written by Lee Yun-jung
역사의 아픔을 넘어 평화와 공존의 시대를 꿈꾸며
Beyond the Tragedy of History and Toward an Age of Peace and Coexistence The field trip to China for East Asian history teachers was a highly anticipated event for me. It was a good opportunity of dark tourism (travel for learning from history) at a time when I was feeling a responsibility to 'plant seeds for an age of peace and coexistence in East Asia.' On the first day of our field trip to China, February 20, Wednesday, 2013. our itinerary started with a stop at Nanjing Museum exhibiting about 100,000 historical artifacts, and then at the Gate of China (Zhonghuamen). Built with four layers to defend the city, the Gate of China was a sophisticated and complex structure that was grand in scale.
Written by_Tak Song-chul, Teacher of Namji High School
새 정부 출범 이후 한일관계를 전망하다
Outlook on South Korea-Japan Relations under the New Governments On February 25, Monday, 2013, Park Geun-hye was sworn in as the president of South Korea. Three days later, on February 28, Thursday, almost immediately after the Park Geun-hye administration took off, an international conference was held at the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University under the title 'The Rise of a New Government in Japan and an Outlook on South Korea-Japan Relations.' This conference was obviously about the South Korean government's dealing with the second Abe cabinet launched on December 26 last year and the bilateral relations in coming years. It must have been difficult for the speakers to predict bilateral relations when the one (Japan) government had been operation for no more than three months and the other (South Korea) for only three days.
Written by_ Choi Woon-do, Director of Policy Team, Office of Policy Planning, NAHF
프랑스 학술지에 '독도가 한국영토' 임을 알리는 논문 게재로 유럽 내 독도 홍보에 크게 기여
Paper Published in French Journal Helps Europeans Know that 'Dokdo is Korean Territory' The European Perception of Korean Geography and History Needs to Be Corrected France is a great country with a long history and time-honored traditions, and has significance influences on the French-speaking world and Europe. While Koreans know relatively well about France, there are not many French people, and not many Europeans for that matter, who know well about Korea. When I was studying in France, what surprised me the most was the fact that there were few, if any, books on Korea in large libraries and bookstores whereas there were plenty of books on Japan and China. No wonder they have don't even know where Korea is. There are even some people who think that Korea had been a vassal state of China before it was occupied by Japan and then became a colony of the United States. While formulating a doctoral dissertation, I took this European perception of Korea into consideration.
Written by_ Lee Sang-kyun, Research Fellow of Dokdo Research Institute
독도·울릉도 연구 및 17세기 한일관계 연구의 중요한 자료《울릉도, 독도 일본사료집Ⅰ》 발간
A Collection of Old Japanese Documents on Ulleungdo and Dokdo I Published as Important Historical Material for the Study of Ulleungdo/Dokdo and 17th-Century Korea-Japan Relations In 1693, two Koreans (Ahn Yong-bok and Park Eo-dun) who were out in Ulleungdo fishing were taken to Japan by Japanese who had come to this island. These Japanese, the fishermen of merchants residing in Yonago (米子) in the Tottori domain (鳥取藩), had been coming to Ulleungdo every year for fishing. Although the two Koreans were sent back to Korea safely by the Tsushima domain (對馬藩), Korea and the Tsushima domain had a disagreement over Ulleungdo while exchanging diplomatic documents related to this island. As a result, Korea and Japan came to be engaged in a diplomatic dispute over the question of whose territory Ulleungdo was. This incident, which was called 'Ulleungdo Jaengye (Border Dispute)' in Korea in the past, was referred to as 'Takeshima Itken (竹島[Ulleungdo]一件(an incident))' or 'Genrokutakeshimaitken (元祿竹島一件) in pre-modern Japan.
Written by_Yoon Yu-sook, Research Fellow of Dokdo Research Institute
야나기 무네요시의 조선인식-진정성을 넘어서
Yanagi Muneyoshi's Perception of Korea: Beyond His True Heart Yanagi Muneyoshi (柳宗悅, Mar. 21, 1889 - May 3, 1961) was a native of Tokyo who initiated the Mingei (民藝: Fork Craft) Movement. A member of the magazine Shirakaba (白樺), he also studied philosophy and religion at the University of Tokyo and was influenced by William Blake's mysticism through Bernard Leach. In 1914, captivated by the beauty of Korean ceramics, he came to Korea and buried himself in the study of old structures and ceramics. He had unusual love for Korean art, and it was expressed, for example, when he insisted that the old structures of Korea (e.g. Gwangwhamun (Gate) and Bulguksa (Temple)) should be preserved during the Japanese occupation of Korea. In 1924, Yanagi Muneyoshi established the 'Korean National Art Museum' in Jibgyeongdang at Gyeongbok Palace in Korea. In 1936, he founded the Japan Folk Crafts Museum (日本民藝館) in Komaba (駒場), Tokyo, which is still in existence and open to the public.
Writte by_Lee Byung-jin, Professor of Sejong University
In regards to the growing adoption rates of textbooks with conservative and rightist flavor in recent years, what's wrong with Japan's textbook screening system? Q Once a year, around late March, Japan's ministry of education (MEXT) announces the results of its screening of school textbooks. This year, the screening results of upper-year high school textbooks will be released. In regards to the growing adoption rates of textbooks with conservative and rightist flavor in recent years, what's wrong with Japan's textbook screening system?
Written by_ Seo Jong-jin, Research Fellow of NAHF Research Department
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