South Korea's conservative government has announced plans to adopt new government-backed history textbooks for middle and high schools — a move that resembles a similarly controversial push in Japan.
After months of heated debate, the government of President Park Geun-hye announced Monday that starting in 2017, all secondary schools must use only state-issued history textbooks, which will reportedly be called "Accurate History Textbooks."
The government has argued that the current textbooks are overly left-leaning and paint North Korean ideologies in a positive light, among other concerns.
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