I take it as a great honor to write to DEAS, the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Malaya. My name is Yoon-seong Shin, and I'm proud to introduce myself to be a student of Hana Academy Seoul, as well as one of the people of the Republic of Korea. 

I'm also working 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. 

With all due respect, I am writing this letter to you regarding the misleading map on your website. (http://deas.um.edu.my/index.htm)

To my great surprise, the ocean that is located between the Korean peninsula and the Japanese archipelago, whose original name is the "East Sea," is wrongly named the "Sea of Japan." Considering your website also contains several maps using both the "East Sea" and the "Sea of Japan," (like those on this page; http://deas.um.edu.my/html/about_us.htm) I assume you also understand the circumstance.

As a Korean national who is fully aware of how the East Sea is enthusiastically beloved by our people, and as a high school student who wants to make good use of my knowledge to contribute to this world, I could not help but write this letter to you.

Therefore, I humbly ask you to seriously consider this issue and to replace the erroneous map with correct one. Please visit the website (http://dokdo.mofat.go.kr) for more specific information on geographical designations if you need any.

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 (shinys1112@naver.com).

Yours sincerely,

Yoon-seong Shin