South Korean High School History Education and Foreign Country Attitudes Survey

Seoul, South Korea, is the location for original survey data collected from 34 classrooms across 17 high schools. The data was gathered by Soyoung Lee to study the impact of school history education emphasizing past grievances on students' attitudes toward present-day foreign countries. It was last updated on 2026-05-10.

Use Cases

• Analyze the effect of anti-Japanese textbook content on student attitudes toward cooperation with Japan.
• Compare attitudes toward the U.S. between students using pro-U.S. versus anti-U.S. history textbooks.
• Study the relationship between historical 'fact' beliefs and evaluations of historical events.
• Investigate whether changes in historical memory directly translate into present-day foreign policy attitudes.

Strengths

• Data originates from 34 classrooms across 17 high schools, suggesting a multi-site study design.
• Focuses on a specific geographic and educational context: high schools in Seoul, South Korea.
• Explicitly tests hypotheses regarding two distinct foreign country relationships: Japan and the U.S.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale statistical modeling.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to being collected solely from schools in Seoul.

Provenance

Source

American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) Dataverse

Collection Method

Original survey data collected from high school classrooms.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-10 17:26:27; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Seoul, South Korea