Korean School (朝鮮学校) is ethnic education for Korean resident children’s school.  In 1910, Japan did Japan‘s Annexation of Korea (韓国併合), after, Korean people came Japan, because of forced labor.  The emancipation of Korea (defeat of Japan) made about 600 thousand Korean residents is living Japan who changed generation.  The present Korean resident was born in Japan.  New generation people brought up in Japan were born before, so they can’t speak in Korean.  They needed Korean education for Korean children, so Korean resident made a lot of Korean school in Japan.

Korean school do education as Korean, that is not only Korean class, but also Social, History, Math and physical education too (except for Japanese subject). However, student’s first language is Japanese, and teacher’s first language is Japanese too.  Korean resident have held mother language what is over the generation.

Japan has about 50 Korean schools now, however, Japan had over 100 Korean schools before 20years.  In kidnap issue after, some Korean resident changed Korean school to Japan school.  Korean school have relation to the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan; Chongryong (在日本朝鮮人総聯合会; 総聯), and Chongryong have relation D.P.R.K.  The present, we have issue of D.P.R.K – Japan relation and act of D.P.R.K, Korean school have got some attack, and Korean school have some issue now, that is the exclusion of free high school bill (高校無償化) , attack to the right wing citizen’s group and decrease in students.  The exclusion of free high school bill and attack of the citizen’s group is big issue now.  In Korea University school festival, the right wing citizen’s group Zaitokkai (在特会) said “ we come for kill Korean!”.  That people is a part of Japanese, however, we should change that social.  We must aim for Multicultural symbolic societies, what is not relation to Japanese, Korean, Chinese and other people.  We should live with together.  Korean school teach that to us.

by Kazuki Baba