Shortly ago, the history textbook written by the conservative group by distorting the history of the south Korean people's movement for freedom, democracy and reunification was passed in the examination for approval.

Such hideous moves putting the preceding dictators into the shade have been openly committed under the present regime, stirring the strong protests of people from all walks of life.

The education inspector in Kwangju City said that the textbook recently written by the conservative group contained the contents defiling the May 18 Kwangju Uprising and the April 19 Uprising.

He asserted that such an unreasonable act of denying the struggle for democracy in south Korea can never be overlooked.

He underlined the need to take a strong countermeasure to stem the conservative group's distortion of history in textbook.

The chairman of the History Teachers Association said it is absurd for the conservative group to brand all the textbooks now in use as leftist ones.

A history teacher in Seoul said the conservative group's act of distorting the history in textbook is aimed to openly fan up pro-Japanese sentiment and to regard anything against it as pro-north, emphasizing the need to check such moves.

Meanwhile, the Solidarity Council for Education in History made up of history teachers and experts called for strongly coping with the conservative forces' distortion of history and retrogressive revision of the textbook in the future.