Dr Emma Campbell, a visiting fellow at the Australian National University's Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, said the move was unexpected and disappointing.

 

"I think I'm joined by quite a lot of people in South Korea who think it's quite a regressive move, especially when you look at the few countries who have such tight control of the textbooks, which include North Korea," she said

 

"So I think it's a disappointing and surprising move by a country that really should be encouraging diversity and democracy and freedom of speech."

 

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