EDUCATION/CULTURE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00423R000400590001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 4, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY INFORMATION
SUBJECT: Education/Culture
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4 May 1953
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1. In Korea we recognize that the Japanese introduced and laid the
foundation for our Korean educational system. Although education
under their rule was extended only to'the wealthy or better-to-do
class, the Japanese did inaugurate a good. educational system. In
reality, it was this system that was expended, to spread. education
to the Korean masses and. make it possible for Korea to, chieve the
second largest rate of literacy in Asia.
2. It can not be denied. that'the Japs showed the Koreans the value of
education.
their whole being.
In the question of culture, it is also my opinion that many of the
older people of Korea are still favorable to Japanese cul?ure al-
though they do not openly admit it. There are many merd}ers of the
National Assembly that.are of the same opinion. Understands they
.are not necessarily pro-Japanese, but they still favor or 1e n to
many Japanese ways. This same feeling is not apparent in the younger
Koreans, they are imbued, with Nationalism and it vibrates through
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