북한의 역사 교육체계 확립과 민족해방운동사 인식

Abstract

After liberation from colonial rule by Japanese Imperialism, Korean schools focused on Korean language and history education. Like Hangeul education, history education tended to be emphasized in terms of nationality recovery. Like most emerging countries, history in North Korea was a major concern, directly connected to the task of remembering and inheriting its identity. North Korean politicians paid attention to the experiences of the anti-Japanese Imperialism struggle in which they directly participated in relation to their own historical identity. It was an honorable subject that could be taken pride in as their new tradition. Therefore, the recent histories including the history of the national liberation movements tended to be regarded more important than the histories of any period. This study aims to examine the process of establishment of the history education system in North Korea immediately after liberation and the transformation of historical view surrounding the national liberation movements. The work of tracing the process can reveal the aspect in which North Korean history originated and its characters were formed. It is a very meaningful work to trace the origin of the character formation of North Korea’s history, which tends to serve political goals rather than being positioned in its own academic field today. In short, this study intends to examine how the historical science and the history education system in North Korea were born immediately after liberation, and how North Korea’s historical science created a new tradition and its own identity.