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[flakfizer]

Here we go again:

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2009/08/07/2009080700591.html

[Cerriowen]

Calling it the "East sea" is quite as ego-centric as calling it the "Sea of Japan".

Should Japan then call it the "West Sea"? Or should all maps and countries refer to it as the East sea, regardless of it's direction from their native country?

How about picking a new name that is less contraversial?















Like maybe The Dokdo Sea

[coralreefer_1]

[cangel]

What about the South China Sea? Gulf of Mexico? Etc...

A full page add, huh? Well, it'll make a nice lining for the bottom of bird cages.

Nobody cares and this ad will not change anything. Better to donate the money to charity.

[bluelake]

I've always thought The East Asian Sea would be good. It adds one word to the Korean name and yet does not favor one country over another.

[CentralCali]

To heck with both Japan and Korea. Perhaps a less controversial name would be the Russian Sea.

[beast]

A more appropriate name could be, "Kim Jong Il's missile bin"

[djsmnc]

How about the Northwest Pacific Sea?

[Ilsanman]

East Sea? Doesn't exist.

[Tundra_Creature]

For some reason I thought there was already an East Sea. Guess I need to take geography again.

[endo]

[curiousaboutkorea]

[sjk1128]

I usually try to at least see "the Korean side" of these arguments, but in this case I just can't. As many have pointed out, Korea's "East Sea" idea is ridiculously ethnocentric in that the body of water only lies east of one group of people, not the whole world. Is it that Koreans see it as a possessive rather than a limiter, that is "Japan's Sea" or "the Sea that belongs to Japan" as opposed to "the sea whose existence is defined by the presence of the body of land known as Japan." I have certainly always thought the latter was the case. I was never confused into thinking that it belonged to Japan, just was aware that if Japan were not there it would be, well, just more of the Pacific.

[endo]

What about the Korean Straits?

[curiousaboutkorea]

As a United States citizen, I would like to urge everyone here to start using the name The Southeast Gulf instead of The Gulf of Mexico