A South Korean civic group, the Korean Ancient History Society, held a presentation session in Seoul Friday on the subject of the relics of the ancient Koguryo Kingdom and ways to counter alleged Chinese attempts to appropriate Koguryo history as its own.

Cho Bub-jong, a professor of U-suk University, raised concerns in his presentation about possible ulterior motives on the part of Chinese scholars' recent attempts to reinterpret Koguryo history.

He added that when he visited a newly built museum in China's Jian province, he only saw exhibitions that explained how often ancient Korean kingdoms paid tributes to Chinese overlords and how the ethnic tribes of the Koguryo Kingdom were supposedly merged into China.

Another presenter, Park Kyung-churl of Kang-Nam University, claimed that China's attempts to reinterpret history from a biased point of view could be detected well before its recently disclosed Dongbuk Kongjung Research Project, which allegedly addresses the Koguryo issue in a revisionist, pro-Chinese perspective.