Dear. GenerationalDynamics.com

With my deepest respect and gratitude, I take it as a great honor to write in your website. I am Ji-Hyeon Oh, and am proud to introduce myself to be one of the people of the Republic of Korea and a student of Hana Academy Seoul.

I also work as an active member of the Dokdo Cyber Press, a non-governmental and voluntary organization with the mandate to provide correct information about Korea to the international community, including text book publishers.

To my great surprise, I found out that an article of yours have wrongly named the “East Sea” as the “Sea of Japan”

The name of the sea between the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese archipel ago, currently named as the “Sea of Japan” in your article, should be corrected to the “East sea” due to following reasons.

First, according to international organization, it is noted that “If each of two or more countries use different name, international organization advises the name’s simplification, and if it can’t do, it has to use both names.”

Furthermore, I’d like to give an example of this. In past, the sea around the French Republic, the United Kingdom, the German Federal Republic, and the Kingdom of Denmark was called in many names. However, after International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) was established, the sea is currently called the “North Sea,” because North Sea is located in the north of the Eurasian Continent. For the same reason, “Sea of Japan” has to be called “East Sea,” not “Sea of Japan.”

Also, as many international organizations including U. N. agencies have corrected “Sea of Japan” to “East Sea,” I’d truly appreciate if your website could join this trend.

As a Korean who is fully aware of how the island is enthusiastically beloved by our people, I could not help but write to your website.

I humbly ask for your website to seriously consider the issue of changing the “Sea of Japan” to the “East Sea.” Or, at least, please name it both “East sea” and “Sea of Japan”.

I would like to once again appreciate your time for reviewing my letter and will be more honored to get reply via my e-mail lilacjane2@gmail.com. I’d always be looking forward to it!!

Your sincerely,

Ji-Hyeon, Oh