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[sojusucks]

[yodanole]

I'm not really sure why Japan or Korea really care what people who speak English call the Liancort Rocks or the Sea of Japan in English.

I certainly don't care what they are called in Japanese or Korean.

I do love to see old ( or new, for that matter ) maps.

[everything-is-everything]

I generally like living in South Korea and have met a lot of great people here, but can someone explain why I feel so annoyed, sarcastic and non-supportive of the "East Sea"?

[PeteJB]

It's not as ridiculous as Chinas claims to the sea. They've literally said that they 'own' certain parts of the ocean. Yeah, like you can own the ocean. The ocean owns us.

[matty022]

[Son Deureo!]

[The Grumpy Senator]

You should fully understand both sides of an argument before making, what turns out be, a very uninformed statement that assumes one side feels a certain way. Maybe you should look into the real reason why Korea is pushing for the name to return to East Sea or Sea of Korea. It is a deeper issue than just "Korean nationalism," and the "US does not want to call it the Gulf of America" statement makes you look like you have absolutely zero information on the topic and are just throwing out a statement based on what you have read on Dave's.

If you want to learn more about the subject than as a university graduate, I assume you have better research skills than Wikipedia, use them.

[Son Deureo!]

If there is a good reason why the rest of the world should be calling it The East Sea, then why don't you enlighten us? You might have added some heat to this discussion, Grumpy Senator, but not a hell of a lot of light.

[Nismo]

I always tell people it's the Sea of Japan in English because it makes sense. If Japan did not exist, it would be the Pacific Ocean. It is called the Sea of Japan because the existence of Japan marks it off from the larger body of water to which it is connected.

The issue will never appeal to the average U.S. citizen (and, perhaps, the rest of the world as well), because they couldn't care less. There is the Gulf of Mexico that has a shoreline nearly half of which touches the U.S., but who bloody well cares? And that's what we call it IN ENGLISH! It could just have easily been called the Sea of Cuba (which would be a whole lot cooler).

Furthermore, calling it the 'East Sea' is geocentrically biased towards Korea. It's not east of Japan, after all. We should also consider the Korea Strait. Should that be renamed, too? I never hear Koreans (or Japanese, for that much!) whinging about it. Not to mention the Korea Bay.

In sum, that's why the issue annoys the hell out of me.

[tiger fancini]

[flakfizer]