A parliamentary inquiry on the nation’s embassy in London has discovered that South Korea is described as a “global aid recipient” in a British textbook published in 2003.

Grand National Party lawmaker Gu Sang-chan said the “The New Wider World” British geography textbook for middle schools refers to South Korea as a developing nation.

He said the text grouped nations into two categories: the rich and developed and the poor and less developed. Korea was included in the latter.

Gu urged the embassy to have the content reversed before this year’s scheduled revisions of the textbook.

Meanwhile, GNP lawmaker Cheong Jin-suk said that in a study of government department Web sites of the Group of 20 members, all 162 British government sites referred to the body of water between Korea and Japan as the “Sea of Japan” and not the “East Sea.”