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A Proposal for the Establishment of Archival Community in the East Asia

  • The Korean Journal of Archival Studies
  • 2012, (32), pp.219-236
  • Publisher : Korean Society Of Archival Studies
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science

kwak geon hong 1

1한남대학교

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ABSTRACT

It is well known that records management is closely related to democracy, and the records management ‘innovation’ in Korea did also aim to reach democratic ‘accountability’ and ‘governance’. Likewise, the first reason this article deals with the establishment of archival community in the East Asia is to help promote democracy and form a co-operative relations in the region through records management. Secondly, the distorted view of history easily found in the history textbooks of each countries should be corrected for the 21st East Asia in peace. Records and memories in the past are main components for the present and the future. A great many records to solve the disputes over history still remains inaccessible at large in the archives of the East Asia. A coming archival community will endeavor to disclose and share the historical records for harmonious awareness of history. Cooperation and solidarity within archival community in the East Asia featuring democratic accountability, governance and more records disclosure can be a brand-new start for peace and ‘better’ democracy in his region.

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