They referred to the recent screening by the Committee for Compiling History Textbooks of history textbook written by neo-conservative historians.

The textbook has hundreds of errors and embellishes the past colonial rule by the Japanese imperialists based on the "theory of modernizing the colony," in particular, they charged.

They criticized the authors of the textbook for eulogizing dictators like Syngman Rhee and Park Chung-Hee and distorting and downplaying the movement for democracy.

They declared that they would conduct positive campaign to correct the errors of the textbook.