1st trilateral education meeting held in Seoul
History education wasn’t on the agenda of the meeting where the ministers agreed to hold their gatherings annually and expand student exchanges and partnership programs between universities as well as elementary, middle and high schools. The second trilateral meeting will be held in Japan next year and the third in China in 2018, according to Korea’s Education Ministry.
Further discussions are needed for history issues to be taken up in future meetings, said Yoo Ji-wan, a Korean ministry official. Education Minister Lee Joon-sik said the beginning of the trilateral meetings would “plant the seeds of peace’’ among the Northeast Asian neighbors.
The countries have struggled to settle disputes stemming from Japan’s brutal colonial rule of Korea in the early 20th century and its wartime aggression toward China.
AP
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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