Dear BBC

With my deepest respect and gratitude, I take it as a great honor to write to your website. I am Lee-Hee Kim, 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 textbook publishers.

I am writing to you as I have important suggestions to make in regards to your articles titled the “Profile: Dokdo/Takeshima islands"

To my great surprise, I found out that a 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 archipelago, currently named as the “Takasima” in your article, should be corrected to the “Dokdo.”

At present, as many international organizations including U. N. agencies have corrected ‘Takasima'to ‘Dokdo’, I’d truly appreciate if your web site 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 company.

I humbly ask for your website to seriously consider the issue of changing the “Takasima” to the "Dokdo.” Or, at least, please name it both 'Takasima' and 'Dokdo'. Please visit the website (http://dokdo.mofat.go.kr) for more specific information on geographical designations.

I would like to once again appreciate your time for reviewing my letter and will be more than honored to get reply from your university via my e-mail (leehee9749@naver.com).

Yours sincerely,

Lee-Hee, Kim