Existing textbooks have been criticized by the government as well as by the Korean right or conservative side for being too positive on North Korean topics , and for " liberal , left-leaning " bias . On the other hand , the left , also described as liberals and progressives , represented among others by '' The Hankyoreh '' newspaper , are critical of the changes such as removing any mentions of the Geochang massacre and excluding photos of the first North – South summit , which they have described as biased towards a conservative view of history and the state that lends legitimacy to the pre-democratic , authoritarian , conservative governments . In particular , the regime of Park Chung-hee , the father of the then current Korean president , Park Geun-hye , is seen by liberals as given a " white-wash " treatment by the new revisions . The conservatives rebuke that the current textbooks describe Park Chung-hee and his predecessor , Rhee Syng-man , in an excessively negative manner . Other controversial topics involve the framing of the pro-democratic protests against Park 's regime , or the inclusion of the story of Korean teenage heroine Yu Gwan-sun
Geochang massacre
Geochang massacre
Korean history textbook controversies