South Korea's government on Tuesday said it would publish history textbooks for use in schools from 2017, to strip current teaching of its "ideological bias."
The move to stop the use of textbooks written by private-sector scholars and issued by private publishers capped weeks of debate about whether it was democratic for the government to dictate how the country's turbulent modern history is taught.
It also fueled suspicion about President Park Geun-hye's motive in adopting the policy, amid sharply divided views of the leadership of her father, Park Chung-hee.