Dear The Asahi Shinbum

With my deepest respect and gratitude, I take it as a great honor to write to your site. I am Pulip Kim, and am proud to introduce myself to be one of the people of the Republic of Korea and a student of Hana Academy School.

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 internet map providers.

I am writing to you as I have important suggestions to make in regards to your article’s titled the "Lee’s visit to Takeshima came like bolt out of the blue for Japan'.

To my great surprise, I found out that the map has wrongly named “Dokdo” as the “Takeshima”.

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

I humbly ask for you to seriously consider the issue of changing “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 your company via my e-mail (leaf4379@naver.com).

Yours sincerely,
Pulip Kim