Dear webmaster,

Hello. This is Seoyoon Lim who studies oceanography in South Korea.

I have a project and research about marine environment and ecosystem, using your website.

I really thank you for your website which provides useful contents for my research.

However, I have found some minor different information in your website from other sources during the research.

In the map of your website, the name of Dokdo, a beautiful island of South Korea is described as "Liancourt Rocks".

It seems unreasonable to use the name "Liancourt Rocks" which is a name known in Europe, named after Liancourt, the French whaling ship which first discovered Dokdo as a Western vessel in 1849.

In addition, it is the term that has been spread to the international community as the excuse of using a neutral name between Korea and Japan before marking Dokdo as Takeshima.

Therefore, I believe that a beautiful island of South Korea should be described as the “Dokdo” or at least with the simultaneous use of both names; “Dokdo/Liancourt Rocks.”

I would like to attach some references to help your understanding of this matter.

I hope that errors in your website will be corrected.

If you do not mind, could you let me know an e-mail address of the person in charge or another possible way to correction, please?

Thank you again for your help. I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours sincerely,