Creating the National Other: Opposing Images of Nationalism in South and North Korean Education.

From: Korean Studies | Date: January 1, 1999| Author: Hart, Dennis | Copyright information

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,...

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