After the
South Korean liberation from the Japan, there was a drive on the part of Korean historians to present a new history of Korea and it was called
Hanguksa sillon. Yi Pyong Do was part of this initiative, which was viewed as new in name only because it inherited the colonialist racial perspective inherited from the Japanese scholarship. Korean historians such as Cho Yun-jae, Son Chin-tae, and Yi In-yong, among other Chindan hakhoe historians followed another direction in their scholarship, which they also labeled "new" - the new nationalist historiography or
sin-minjokjuui yoksahak. This group, specifically, excluded Yi Pyong Do due to his association with the colonial government, particularly the
Chōsenshi Henshūkai, which was generally viewed as an instrument used to distort Korean history by suppressing or delegitimizing important texts such as the
Samguk yusa. Some sources, however, point out that the charge could be political because the purge of collaborators became part of the post-liberation Korean politics. Yi Pyong Do, himself, addressed the controversy by stressing that he worked for the Chōsenshi Henshūkai to prevent a Japanese distortion of Korean history, a position that echoed the same argument adopted by other historians identified with the Japanese colonial government. ==References==