Civic groups have launched a nationwide fund-raising campaign to finance ads to publicize Japan's distortion of history textbooks.
More than 80 civic groups are participating in the campaign, which kicked off in a ceremony in Seoul Monday.
Organizers say they will use the fund to put advertisements highlighting distortions in history textbooks on Japanese media.
The groups plan to raise one hundred million won this week as an initial step and put the ads on two Japanese dailies to publicize distortions of history to the Japanese public.
Also on Monday, a group of other civic organizations handed over a petition protesting Japan's history textbook distortion to Prime Minister Lee Han-dong. The petition contained more than two million signatures.
The signatures, many of them from students and their parents, were collected by the Korean Federation of Teachers' Association and the Citizen Movement Center against Overconsumption.