국정 역사교과서의 한국고대사 서술과 유사역사 문제

Abstract

This paper analyzes the description of ancient Korean history in the state-issued history textbook (2017), “Korean History for High School” and “History 1 for Middle School”, by focusing on the textbook’s composition and pseudohistory issues. At first, this paper compared the composition between the state-issued history book and the state-authorized textbooks. The amount of ancient history content in the state-issued history textbook had been increased dramatically compared with the state-authorized one. Thematically, the number of contents in the political, military, literature, and exchange history had been increased. On the other hand, the amount of social and economic history content had greatly been diminished. As a result, the national narrative was emphasized without explaining the structure and characteristics of the ancient society properly. Especially, through the narrative of a war, the aspect of the state centered around the king had been developed into a powerful state. The description of Gojoseon period greatly had been strengthened compared with other periods. The narrative contents about Gojoseon were also focused on describing it as a powerful state, and the pseudohistorian’s opinion was partly accepted through the annotations. The opinion was about the territory of Gojoseon and Han’s four commanderies. The origins of that opinion could be found in ‘Crisis in the Study of Ancient History of Korea,’ provoked by the period of the Park Jung-hee government’s state-issued history textbook. It is the reappearance of an aspect of ‘Crisis in the Study of Ancient History of Korea’ and the description of the state-issued textbook according to that from the mid-1970s to the 1980s. The ancient Korean history field in the state-issued history textbook (2017) needs to be noted as another example of the combination of chauvinism and nationalism.