Many people believed that communism had come to an end after watching the collapse of the former Soviet Union and the communist states of Eastern Europe. And as communist China transformed itself into a more free-market economy, we expected that as their economy developed and its society became more diversified, it would inevitably lead them to develop into a freer and more democratic system.
However, the Communist ideology has not changed at all and its methods have evolved. They have infiltrated into all aspects of society—home, school, church, politics, economy, culture, media, etc., while calling themselves the New Left and Liberals. Communist China also developed a new method of controlling the people by means of new technologies and have revised their strategies to further communization, such as dissemination of Communist ideas, industrial espionage, and mass indoctrination of pro-Chinese personnel through the Confucius Institutes. Meanwhile, we were seduced by low-cost Chinese goods and have forgotten about the slave labor of the Chinese people and have even turned a blind eye to the pains of the Uighurs who have become victims of organ harvesting. We didn’t even know that our children were taught in school that the Republic of Korea should not have been established, and that school education is being destroyed by teachers who reject the liberal democratic system. Even though they knew that students’ rights were being violated, teachers pretended not to know because they are afraid of radical left teachers’ unions. This article explains the threat of the world’s left-wing ideologies, specifically the infiltration methods of Communism into education, and will attempt to explain the reality of education in Korea, which has become a tool of left-wing educators.
The Spread of Left-wing Ideological Education
There are five main ways by which Communist ideas infiltrate into Western education, which are explained as follows: (1) direct introduction, (2) blocking traditional ideas and culture, (3) encouraging a decline in basic learning skills such as reading, writing, etc., (4) infiltration of perverted notions of economic, gender, and class liberation, and (5) propagandizing selfishness, greed, and a mentality of self-indulgence. On the other hand, in Asian communist countries like China, they destroy traditional culture and slaughter scholars and use “the art of deceiving people with distorted education and propaganda while cutting the pulse of cultural transmission.” (Gupyong editorial department, 2019: 3-5)
In fact, left-wing ideological concept have continuously evolved. They have developed into many fields, such as traditional Marxism, Neo-Marxism, subordinate theory, liberation theology, cultural colonialism, leftist feminism, leftist-postmodernism in academia and school education, and ideas and theories related to this are taught as subjects in many universities around the world. Not all of their effects on academic development are negative. There have been some modifications to the liberal democratic system, some that are self-declining, and others that have evolved. However, the most worrisome thing about this is that many of these ideologies are intentionally aimed at overthrowing the liberal democratic system and the fact is that these theories serve as the ideological motivations of radical left-wing activists.
They block traditional ideas and culture from students. They also ostensibly insist on race, class, and sexual liberation which are just diversionary strategies used to promote Communist ideas. In other words, the aim is to destroy the spirit of Christianity, the spiritual heritage of the West, and to pave the way for left-wing brainwashing education by hindering the development of thinking skills through the acquisition of basic studies. Discrimination is prohibited on the surface of education. It is packaged with the original good purpose of respect for multicultural and human rights, but their ultimate goal is in fact the dissolution of existing sexual consciousness based on gender equality, the destruction of public power, paralysis of thought, and the infiltration of Communism.
Chinese Communist Infiltration Through Confucius Institutes
For a long time, the Chinese Communist Party was preparing for a “Hundred-Year Marathon” to destroy liberal democracy (Pillsbury, 2016). One method is the Confucius Institutes, which run programs in universities and elementary and secondary schools around the world. Confucius Institutes are not a place where Confucius’ teachings are taught, but a tool to praise Mao Zedong and Communism, the promotion of Chinese Communism-oriented history, the training of pro-China and ethnic Chinese, and to recruit potential spies (Lee, Jebong et al. 2020). As a condition of their financial support, Hanban, an affiliate of the People’s Republic of China’s Ministry of Education, has almost every right to select Confucius institutes and instructors around the world. These Confucius institutes have faithfully implemented the CCP’s strategy for global communization over the past few decades.
Unfortunately, the world’s first Confucius Institute was established in 2004 in Seoul, the capital of South Korea. A total of 23 universities are operating these institutes, including major universities in the metropolitan area, state-run universities, and local universities, such as Yonsei University, Kyung Hee University, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Hanyang University, Chungnam National University, Jeju National University, Incheon National University, Honam University, and Wonkwang University. There are 18 Confucius Institutes specifically catering to elementary, middle and high school students nationwide. The textbooks being used consist of distorted historical facts, such as praising Chinese Communists like Mao Zedong and Xi Jinping and describing the Korean War as a fight in which Chinese aided Koreans against America. They are baiting the students with scholarships and trips to China by having them participate in contests praising Mao Zedong and Xi Jinping and showing them movies that glorify Chinese Communism. In addition, they are being used as an organization to train key figures from political and social circles in Korea to become pro-China and subservient to China.
While several Western countries belatedly figured out the CCP’s conspiracy to communize the world and have shut down Confucius Institutes (Canadian Security Intelligence Service, 2013; Government Accountability Office, 2019), the Korean government and most politicians of the ruling and opposition parties in Korea are not even aware of the problem.
Left-wing and Democratic Civic Education of the Korean Teachers and Education Workers’ Union (KTU)
In the 1980s, when the KTU movement began in Korean society, some of the teachers’ movements included genuine Liberals who resisted dictatorship and strived for a free democratic system. However, just as the student movement, the labor movement, and the left-wing parties in Korea have done over time, the leadership of the KTU’s movement gradually shifted towards NL (National Liberation) and their ideological and political orientations clearly shows that they deny the establishment of the Republic of Korea and are pro-North Korea and anti-America. There was a time when the KTU’s movement’s methods of lamenting the collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, anachronistic ideological obsession, and authoritarian decision-making were shunned by young teachers. However, as a result of the election of Moon Jae-in’s left-wing regime and the rise of left-wing superintendents of education, members of the KTU have gone beyond left-wing brainwashing education and have now institutionalized their hegemony to destroy liberal democracy in Korea.
After the Moon administration came to power, they have begun to explicitly transform education within an institutional framework for the denial of liberal democracy, anti-Americanism, pro-North Korean views, and the dismantling of traditional ideas, which is what they call ‘democratic civic education’. In other words, democratic civic education advocates for universal welfare, citizenship, respect for labor, human rights, knowledge of history, sexual orientation recognition and sexual equality. However, it is actually composed of concepts such as the denial of the free democratic system and constitutional spirit of South Korea, praise of the North Korean regime, criticism of the free market economy, distorting history and promoting anti-Japanese sentiment, strategizing activities of labor unions, educating not on gender equality but on sexual equality, biased propaganda against the conservative parties and their allies, support for heads of government, and support for the ruling leftist party and left-wing local governments in conjunction with election campaigning (Yonhap News, 2019; Lee, Jebong b:33; PenNMike TV 2020a, 2020b; TV 0271, 2019).
The Moon administration’s left-wing education system is a typical Communist united front tactic. In other words, it follows the three stages of (1) infiltration, (2) modification, and (3) completion. If the KTU’s left-wing ideological education represents the infiltration stage into the school education, the democratic civic education represents the modification stage, and the final completion stage is represented by the Moon administration seeking to legislate the Democratic Civic Education Act and the Democratic Civic Education Support Act.
The purpose of their legislation is this: “Left-wing members will infiltrate the Democratic Citizens’ Education Committee and use it as a front, establish the Democratic Citizens’ Education Center to organize left-wing members and develop educational contents, and the plan is to establish Democratic Civic Education Centers in cities, provinces, and municipalities to spread left-wing education.” In particular, administrative and financial support from the central government means that the final completion of the institutionalization phase is to support leftist education with taxpayers’ money. Their organizational and management methods are quite similar to the CCP and the North Korean regime’s methods of brainwashing education and ideological control (Lee, Jebong b: 34).
The Coming of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Era and Totalitarian Control
Countries around the world are making every effort to prepare for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. AI and robots will replace human mental labor in the future, which means radical changes in the social order even greater than the social changes brought about by the industrial age. Educational authorities, universities, and big tech companies from all over the world are rushing to overhaul and develop new education systems due to the need for survival strategies in preparation for social change.
We should not let our guard down when it comes to enabling AI technology to have infinite control over humans. The CCP has already figured out and developed pupil recognition and is using this method to control the people by creating technology to control students within the classroom and expanding it as a social credit system. If AI technology and Chinese totalitarianism were to be combined, a barbarous and cruel social control system could be born. Moreover, we must remain vigilant against the CCP’s organ trafficking business by extracting organs from Uighurs and Falun Gong members.
What Now?
Trends and terms which now dominate the Republic of Korea include the following:
Digital fascism, pseudo-totalitarianism, Moon Jae-in’s unpatriotic acts of subservience to China, North Korean sympathizers and Chinese sympathizers, Workers’ Party-style control under the guise of democratic civic education and the autonomy…
How do we overcome this crisis and reform the Republic of Korea?
First, we must accept that it is time to fight to preserve the free democratic system. The current crisis goes beyond just the simple rivalry between conservatives and leftists and the different political parties’ struggles for power. This is a fight against a global conspiracy to dominate the world by the three main forces of global elites, the CCP, and the new left, and it should be recognized that this is a war to protect a free democratic system and sovereign states (Lee, Jebong, 2021). One more thing that our citizens must understand is that the Moon Jae-in administration is becoming a pawn of Xi Jinping and the CCP and is handing over our sovereignty and the people’s interests to the CCP. This is demonstrated by the recent actions of the Moon administration, such as leaking Korea’s nuclear technology to China, allowing unlimited Chinese illegal funds to enter Korea’s real estate market, and through humiliatingly pro-China foreign policies.
Second, we must remain faithful to the concept of ‘back to basics.’ We should not neglect education that fosters reading and thinking skills, such as reading, writing, science and math. We must be faithful to basic education in the classics, history, and the spirit of liberal democracy in order to not be misled by the propaganda and brainwashing from the left. The cultivation of critical thinking is the basis of the spiritual power that enables us to defend our system.
I would like to reiterate the importance of history education based on facts. To those who respect Mao Zedong and want to follow the Chinese Dream, we need to be informed about how tens of millions of Chinese people were massacred during the Cultural Revolution and the Great Famine. To those who promote the notion that the “Korean War was a liberation war” and to the left-wing instructors who praise Chinese intervention in the Korean War as “aiding Koreans against America,” you must realize how the Chinese Communists used their army to slaughter people and learn the truth about what Communist massacres have historically been like for those who experienced them. In addition, many members of the CCP’s upper-echelon families have permanent residency or citizenship in the United States, but Americans must realize that they are stealing astronomical amounts of assets from the United States and that the Chinese people are suffering from slave labor. We must accurately inform students that key figures in the Moon administration, who are pro-China, are not much different from the Chinese Communists themselves.
Finally, we must escape the opium of the intellectuals called socialism. It is true that the free democratic system is excellent and there is no alternative at this time, but China’s Communist infiltration and subversion of other nations through freedom of thought and expression make democracies highly vulnerable. The Communists have not given up their global communization strategy. At certain times they disguise it as freedom of thought and at other times as human rights and racial liberation to penetrate into the existing education, religion and society, presenting it as humanism and progress while constantly threatening the free democratic system and the survival of mankind. Once they have established the Communist state that they are aiming for, such things as freedom of religion, freedom of thought, freedom of expression, rights of sexual minorities, and human rights in general will not be allowed at all.
Nevertheless, while many intellectuals are fiercely critical of the traditional free democratic system, they tend to be lenient or acquiescent to the tyranny and slaughter of Communist countries. Even in Korean society, the Jusapa forces and the pro-Chinese Communists are wrongly termed liberals and there are some who teach lies to the younger generation.
We must provide education based on the truth, make decisions based on accurate definitions, and pass on the free world to future generations. To this end, we must not be afraid of preserving the free democratic system and our sovereign state.
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Professor Jebong Lee received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1995 and has been a professor of education at University of Ulsan since 1997. He is the director of the Korean Association of Comparative Education and the Multicultural Education Association and is the co-chair of the Professors’ Solidarity for Freedom & Justice (PFJ). He specializes in sociology of education, education policy study, and multicultural education.
