Circus Elephants Korea in textbooks

Raised and tamed in this way, the grown-up elephants never try to loosen their rope.
Korea’s national image as seen from the textbooks of the world is the same as a circus elephant.

“One in two textbooks across the world does not have any comment on Korea.”

A recently published World Geography textbook requires students to write the names of seas across the world on the world map. The right answer for the sea between Korea and Japan was ‘Sea of Japan.’ A recent Oxford World History textbook defines ancient Korea as part of Chinese territory.

Japanese history textbooks teach that  Korean island, Dokdo belongs to Takeshima, Japanese territory. “The Japanese aggression upon Korea was aimed at Korea’s development”

Classrooms across the world are becoming one through the Internet. And the history of Korea is looked as one marked with failure, slavery,  and depicted as a young elephant of a circus.  However, Korea boasts 5000 years of history, developing our own history and culture. Somebody has to sever the rope  and show a confident, fair and genuine history of Korea  to the world.

World-wide box office hit Korean movies. Korean movies, not welcomed by the world’s theaters, have finally beaten Hollywood movies in terms of the sheer number of moviegoers. Korean companies that can create harmonization between the west and the east. Once successfully overcoming the 1997 financial crisis, their corporate values are changing world business culture.