To this website administrator,

Hi! I'm Hyunseo Lee, a high school student from South Korea.I visited your web-site, and found this is a very useful site that allows free printing of world maps for many people to share, but I want you change to write both 'East Sea', and 'Sea of Japan'. Please read my e-mail at the end, and hope you to understand why I send this and why it's important for us.

This sea on the world map shows that it bounced by Korea, Japan, and Russia, so it is not just Japan's sea but a sea that many countries share. Korean call that sea "East sea" but Japanese are calling "Sea of Japan". Koreans' name "East Sea" has been the name they as a people have used 2,000 years and not only in Korea but on world maps. The first record of " East Sea" was in the history of the three kingdoms and the sage of King Dong myeong and in the process of recording matters in around 59 B.C. The IHO and UN group of experts on geographical names or UNCSGN,the international organizations which determine the standard names of the world's seas, suggest that in the hard case on the agreement of the name for a landmark shared by 2 countries. It is ordinary principle to use both working name. Following this, the current for the sea between Korea and Japan should not have just one name decided on but the joint use of the Korean name "East Sea" and the Japanese “Sea of Japan” name together in accordance with international law.

I want to believe that the name 'East Sea' can used widely on every world maps in many countries including your web-site. Since South Korea and Japan are unable to reach an agreement on the naming issue, South Korea’s view is that international norms should be followed, thereby using both the East Sea and the Sea of Japan concurrently.

Thanks for your reading & Best Regads,

Hyunseo