The history of Korean students in Czechoslovakia has also been incorporated into the educational project HistoryLab.cz, which focuses on interactive teaching of twentieth-century history through primary sources.
HistoryLab is an educational application designed for working with historical materials in a creative and analytical way. Originally developed in Czech, the platform is now also available in English with a selected set of translated activities, making it accessible to a wider international audience interested in history education and historical thinking.
The project is especially useful for students, teachers, and anyone interested in learning how to interpret historical evidence. By engaging directly with photographs, documents, and other archival materials, users can practice the core principles of historical reasoning rather than simply memorizing facts.
The topic of Korean war orphans has been included in HistoryLab’s educational activities within the section aimed at schools and teachers. The interactive exercise invites users to analyze a 1950s photograph and explore the role of Czechoslovak educational institutions in the integration of Korean children who were brought to Czechoslovakia after the Korean War.
Through source-based tasks, participants can examine how schooling contributed to the social integration of Korean children and how ideas of identity and international solidarity were represented in contemporary visual materials.
Try it in practice: analyze a period photograph from the 1950s and discover how Czechoslovak schools participated in the upbringing and social adaptation of Korean children, and how education played a role in shaping narratives of national and international identity.
Learn more and explore the activities at:
https://historylab.cz/