Some South Koreans here are upset about a photograph of homeless Koreans that appears in a Singapore textbook, and the embassy here has asked the Ministry of Education (MOE) to remove the photograph.

In response, MOE said the publisher has been asked to replace the picture at the next reprint of the textbook.

The social studies textbook, Interacting With Our World, is published by Marshall Cavendish for Primary 3 pupils. It was first published in 2006.

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