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Awards ceremony held for Dokdo Keepers School program

The Foundation held their awards ceremony for excellent schools in its 2019 Dokdo Keepers School program on December 5 in the conference room. The Foundation screened 120 elementary, middle, and high schools designated for the program, and selected 24 excellent schools. The awards ceremony for excellent Dokdo Keepers schools began in 2016, and has contributed to raising students' understanding and interest in Dokdo by supporting creative and autonomous club activities. Teachers and students of 19 schools, including the grand prize winning Changsin Elementary School in Incheon and Imun High School in Daejeon, participated in the awards ceremony and shared in the delight of the awards. Along with the awards ceremony, there were presentations about club activities by the grand prize winners and lectures to learn about Dokdo's diverse ecosystem. The accomplishments of the Dokdo clubs of the 120 schools can be found on the Foundation's home page. Applications for the 2020 Dokdo Keepers School program will be received from late February to early March.

2019 on-the-job training for teachers of East Asian history

The Foundation hosted the 2020 on-the-job training for teachers of East Asian history in Taiwan for four days from December 11 to 14. The training program had a schedule to tour Taipei, Taichung, and Keelung in Taiwan, during which 16 teachers who had completed the Foundation's intensive training program for East Asian history visited historic sites and took time for learning. Their itinerary included visiting Taiwan's historic sites related to modern and contemporary history, including the 228 Peace Park, National Taiwan Museum, and Sun Yat Sen Memorial House.
They also visited the AMA Museum, Taiwan's memorial hall for comfort women, to learn about the comfort women of the Japanese military in Taiwan, and made a field investigation of historic sites related to independence activist Cho Myung-ha. Professor Kim Sang-ho of Hsiuping University of Science and Technology was invited to speak on the independence movement of patriot Cho Myung-ha. This session of on-the-job training included lively education programs. The Foundation will continue to make persistent efforts to activate education on East Asian history.

Northeast Asian History Foundation and Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences

hold international academic conference

The Foundation held the 2019 second-half joint academic conference under the theme of “Powering the Sea: State Governance and Communities Attachment in History of Vietnam and Korea” with the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS) at the academy's conference room in Hanoi. Having signed a mutual business accord with the Vietnamese academy in 2017, the Foundation held the first joint academic conference in Seoul in June this year. During the conference, divided into three sessions of premodern, modern, and territory and oceans, the Foundation's four officials (Nam Sang-gu, Seo Chong-chin, Kwen Eun-ju and Yu Ha-young) made presentations and three researchers (Yi Kyoung-mi, Youn You-sook and Kwak Jin-o) conducted discussions. The Vietnamese researchers who made presentations were Dinh Quang Hai (director of Institute of History of VASS), Nguyen Duc Nhue (deputy director of Institute of History of VASS), Pham Hong Tung (Hanoi University of Social Sciences), Tran Thi Phuong Hoa (Institute of History of VASS) and Nugyen Van Minh (Vietnam Coast Guard). During the Hanoi conference, the Foundation discussed pushing for joint research and academic cooperation on the history of the Japanese invasion with VASS from 2020.

New books published by the Northeast Asian History Foundation

Educational series

"Goguryeo Men, Goguryeo Women", Kim Hyun-sook

"Descendants of Heaven, Goguryeo's Kings and Princes", Kim Hyun-sook

Research series

"Liquidation of Colonization and Yasukuni", edited by Nam Sang-gu

"Lia Region and Bronze Culture", edited by Lee You-pyo

Translation series

"Japanese Comfort Stations in Shanghai", excavation report by Su Zhiliang, Chen Lifei, Yao Fei

Excavation Reports

"2017 Excavation Survey of Kraskino Fortress in Primorsky Krai”"

Others

"Memorial Stone of Korean Victims", edited by Fact-finding Mission for Forced Mobilization of Koreans