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Creating the National Other: Opposing Images of Nationalism in South and North Korean Education
- Korean Studies
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 23, 1999
- pp. 68-93
- 10.1353/ks.1999.0006
- Article
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This article is a study of how the North and South Korean governments have sponsored differing national identities through their school curricula. Each regime has instructed its people in a specific definition of Korean identity by incorporating a national Other into its national identity. For both governments, national identity has been based upon historical legacies as well as a need to distinguish itself from its rival while following the idiom of it own ideology. For the South, I study Todok (Ethics) textbooks taken from the early 1960s and 1979. For the North, I examine seventeen textbooks published between 1986 and 1991.