Korea Business Review

Korea Business Review

Edited by: Hyoung-Goo Kang Print ISSN: 2951-3596 Online ISSN: 2951-360X © THE KOREAN ACADEMIC SOCIETY OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION. Frequency: Quarterly (four times per year): February 28, May 31, August 31, and November 30
Cover
Latest Issue Vol. 60, No. 5 2025

Article Info

Critical Analysis of the Environment in Korean Language Textbooks: Choseonjok’s Korean Textbooks

Dong Bae Lee

The University of Queensland

Korea Business Review 50Vol. 5No. pp.183-207 (2015)

DOI: 10.20880/kler.2015.50.5.183

Abstract

This research looks into how Korean language textbooks have been produced for ethnic Koreans in China. Using critical discourse analysis, the project investigated what ideologies are employed and for whose interests texts are presented in textbooks. The research analysed 18 Korean language textbooks published for primary and middle school students. The findings show that Korean language textbooks portray environmental problems as global concerns rather than specifically China’s concern. Earth is depicted as having serious environmental problems. The people and countries of the entire world are depicted as the perpetrators of the pollution. The textbooks suggest enhancing the shared responsibility to care for earth, making slogans for environmental protection, and designating 5 June as World Environment Day. The environmental problems in China are conspicuously conveyed with information gaps and misinformation. For example, in “The Mysterious Lop Nur,” the writers focused on the economic value of salt produced at the dried up lake. Their support of newly developed areas in Lop Nur also ignores the fact that nuclear testings conducted in Lop Nur have engendered tragic consequences for many local families, including deaths and radiation poisoning. In “Disaster of Frogs’ Village,” the writers even point to children, merchants, and farmers as the culprits of environmental pollution in China rather than factories or multinational companies. None of the textbook stories criticise the Chinese government for seeking economic development at the cost of the environment, and neither do they portray the polluted cities of China. Overall, the textbooks promote Chinese government ideologies, and the interests of owners of national and/or multinational companies and their collaborators rather than everyday Chinese citizens and students.

Keywords

Environment in ChinapollutionKorean language textbookscritical discourse analysis

References

  1. [1] [단행본] Cultural politics and education/Apple, M. W./Open University Press/1996/~///
  2. [2] [단행본] Children's first schoolbooks : Introductions to the culture of literacy/Baker, C. D./Blackwell/1989/~///
  3. [3] [학술지(정기간행물)] Billing, Michael/The language of critical discourse anlysis : the case of nominalization/Discourse and Society/2008/19(6)/783~800//
  4. [4] [인터넷자원] Death on the Silk road/www.archive.org/details/xinjiang-video-project/Brooks, L///2001
  5. [5] [학술지(정기간행물)] Cendrowski, S./Business created China's pollution problem/Fortune/2014/169(6)/90~93//
  6. [6] [단행본] Discourse and social change/Fairclough, N./Polity Press/1992/~///
  7. [7] [학술지(정기간행물)] Gong, L./The management of environmental education from primary school language and education/Modern Reading/2012/10/246~//
  8. [8] [학술지(정기간행물)] Hu, S./Reflection on the environmental problems in China/The Journal of Harbin Committee School of the CCP/2010/67(1)/34~37//
  9. [9] [학술지(정기간행물)] Jiang, Y./Total factor productivity, pollution and ‘green’ economic growth in China/Journal of International Development/2013/27/504~515//
  10. [10] [인터넷자원] Beijing is covered by serious haze (Beijing xianru yanzhong wumai tianqi)/http://news.xinhuanet.com/photo/2013-01/14/c_124226362_2.htm/Jiazhen, Xinhuawang///2013
  11. [11] [학위논문] Lee, D./The ideological construction of culture in Korean language textbooks: A historical discourse analysis/Doctor/The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia//2000
  12. [12] [인터넷자원] The air pollution in China and the ways to solve/http://attfile.konetic.or.kr/konetic/xml/THEMA_INFO/T2A1A1320497.pdf/Li xia///2013
  13. [13] [학술지(정기간행물)] Liu, G./How to proceed with environmental education on the progress of primary school language/Environmental Education/2005/3/36~45//
  14. [14] [학술지(정기간행물)] Liu, J./Primary school Chinese, the fertile soil of environmental education/Journal of Agro-Environment Science/2008/12/100~112//
  15. [15] [학술지(정기간행물)] Liu, Y./The Construction of Pro-Science and Technology Discourse in Chinese Language Textbooks/Language and Education/2005/19(4)/304~321//
  16. [16] [학위논문] Liu, Y./The cultural knowledge and ideology in Chinese language textbooks: a critical discourse analysis/Doctor/University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia//2003
  17. [17] [인터넷자원] The national natural disasters in January: the haze weather in Central East became the worst in the last 52 years/http://guoqing.china.com.cn/2013-02/06/content_27898520.htm/Lu, Q.///2013
  18. [18] [단행본] Handbook of reading research/Meyer, B. J. F./Longman/1984/~///The structure of text
  19. [19] [보고서] Implementation Guide of Environmental Education for Primary and secondary schools/Ministry of Education of China//2003/~/
  20. [20] [학술지(정기간행물)] Tao, A./The comparative research on the environment education content and the view of environment of primary school Chinese language in different ages/Journal of Inner Mongolia Normal University(Educational Science)/2009/22(6)/51~55//
  21. [21] [단행본] Environmental problems and its countermeasures in China/Wei, J./Zhonghuajianshe/2010/70~71///
  22. [22] [단행본] The mission of education/Zhao, Z./Education Science Press/1996/~///
  23. [23] [단행본] 조선어문 2학년 하권/김춘근/연변교육출판사/2012/~///
  24. [24] [단행본] 조선어문 6학년 하권/김춘근/연변교육출판사/2012/~///
  25. [25] [단행본] 조선어문 8학년 하권/김춘근/연변교육출판사/2012/~///

Korea Business Review · THE KOREAN ACADEMIC SOCIETY OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION.

Print ISSN 2951-3596 · Online ISSN 2951-360X

Privacy PolicyTerms of UseContact UsKMA Homepage

TEL : 010-2672-3919 EMAIL : kbr2editor@gmail.com 계좌번호 : 신한 140-009-175743 예금주 : (사)한국경영학회 COPYRIGHT ⓒ 2023 THE KOREAN ACADEMIC SOCIETY OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION. All rights reserved