SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Japanese government is stepping up to use YouTube to insist on calling the East Sea the ‘Sea of Japan.’ Japan’s Foreign Ministry posted a YouTube video titled ‘Sea of Japan – The one and only name recognized by the international community’ last month. In the video, the Foreign [...]
BUSAN, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — July’s average sea surface temperature in the waters between South Korea and Japan reached the highest level in 40 years, a think tank said Tuesday, calling for countermeasures against ocean subtropicalization. According to the Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, the East Sea’s average sea surface temperature was [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) has officially adopted new guidelines to identify seas by numbers instead of names, officials said Tuesday, a decision expected to help ease a long-running row over what to call the body of water between South Korea and Japan. IHO member states had reached a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s ceaseless efforts to support the use of “East Sea” to denote the body of water located to the east of the Korean peninsula seem to be treated with disrespect from Google Korea, with one of its local services making use of “Sea of Japan” to describe the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) has reached agreement on a proposal to mark global sea areas with unique numerical identifiers rather than specific names, the foreign ministry said Tuesday. The consensus, likely to be finalized early next month, capped decades of diplomatic efforts by Seoul to revise the existing [...]
CHUNCHEON, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Small beaches near the East Sea are gaining popularity as an increasing number of people are afraid of visiting popular beaches due to the coronavirus. Less known beaches and campsites hidden in six cities and counties in the east coast, including Jukdo and Ingu, are now being visited by [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) — “President Trump! You mentioned the body of water between the Korean peninsula and Japan as the ‘Sea of Japan’, but it is correct to call it the ‘East Sea.’” Seo Kyung-duk, a professor at Sungshin Women’s University, said on his Instagram account on Wednesday that he posted such a [...]
DONGHAE, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Donghae in Gangwon Province, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the March 1 Independence Movement, will participate in the movement to change the common designation of ‘Sea of Japan’ to ‘East Sea’. Recently, the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) asked South Korea to discuss with Japan on the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – According to data submitted by the Academy of Korean Studies to Rep. Shim Jae-kwon of the Democratic Party of Korea, who also sits on the National Assembly’s Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee, there are still many OECD-member states that denote Korea’s East Sea only as the Sea of Japan [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK), a non-governmental organization, revealed yesterday that a quick type in the search engine Google (www.google.com) of the keywords “Dokdo,” “Liancourt Rocks,” and “Takeshima” will bring about search results pinned to the geographical location of the East Sea (Sea of Japan) and will [...]