Apparently poetry -- at least of the textbook variety -- and politics aren't reconcilable in South Korea: as, for example, Lee Sun-young reports in The Korea Herald in Poet-turned-politician's work may be cut from textbooks, as:
Not a problem that crops up very often in most countries.
It was disclosed Monday that the state-run Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation recommended late last month that publishers of middle school textbooks take out or modify poems and essays written by Do Jong-hwan in their revised editions.See also Na Jeong-ju's report in The Korea Times, Row erupts over lawmaker's poetry.
Not a problem that crops up very often in most countries.