Dear Worldatlas.com

With my deepest respect and gratitude, I take it as a great honor to write to your website. I am Hee-Jin Woo, 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 one of your Web site's world maps titled “Asia". Here is the link: http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/as.htm

To my great surprise, I found out that a map of yours have wrongly named the “East Sea” as the “Sea of Japan(East Sea).”

The name of the sea between the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese archipelago, currently named as the “Sea of Japan” in your agency’s map, should be corrected to the “East Sea.”

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.” 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 you via my e-mail (whj8353@naver.com).

Yours sincerely,

Hee-Jin, Woo