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[BoholDiver]

There are Coast Guard there.

The islets don't support life. The more people they pack on there, the faster it will die.

[Tundra_Creature]

There's a lot of countries fighting over land disputes. Whilst places like Canada or UK don't hand out fliers and stuff, I don't think that the way Korea or Japan behaves about the situation overly weirder than other countries. I mean, whoever owns it, gets the resources and expand their boarders, don't they? The difference is that their more pasisonate about it with their citizens whilst other countries are more passionate about other stuff that drives people crazy.

I didn't hear about Dokdo at all when I was in Korea, and I only recently heard about it at my language exchange because we were looking at a tourist guide and it mentioned Dokdo.

Besides, they're far from being the only ones with territorial disputes.

http://www.bharathiyam.com/archives/25

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_territorial_disputes

[peppermint]

Tundra Creature- if you didn't hear about Dokdo while in Korea, you're one of very few. My elementary school had a huge banner proclaiming Dokdo as Korean land and all of the students were given T-shirts that said "I heart Dokdo"- the only thing that might get Canadians of all ages as riled up is Olympic hockey, and that's still a pretty big might.

[Steelrails]

[blackjack]

and koreans are far from being the only ones being overly nationalistic about something. I just got sent this rubbish

http://www.passiton.co.nz/

[reactionary]

I tend to think that a country's cultural, culinary, technological (etc etc etc etc!) merits, if indeed worthwhile, speak for themselves. There is often something inherently inferior about the product if you have to desperately go around touting how great it is (America does this a lot domestically with "made in the USA" autos and food). Good cheese comes from happy cows. Happy cows come from California.

K-pop, as much as I loathe it, gained ground around Asia because there was something intrinsic that people LIKED about it, not because there was an aggressive marketing campaign. People buy Korean exports like cars and electronics because of their relative quality compared to their price. Paying for full page ads in the NY Times telling people to go eat bibimbap just isn't going to work in my opinion.

Likewise, you CAN'T arouse sympathy in other nations about Dokdo. Koreans can go red in the face fighting Japan over it, and it looks like they've pretty much occupied it and it's theirs, but they will never, EVER get anyone to care about it. This isn't Israel/Palestine and this isn't the Balkans. People aren't dying over Dokdo..well..except for the occasional suicide.

[THE CANDY COLOURED CLOWN]

Why don't Japan and Korea decide that they BOTH own Dokdoo and build a big house, as big as can fit on the island... It can be a place where Koreans and Japanese can go to have swinger parties and drinks and general merry making.. The house can be populated and ran and staffed by the Japanese-Korean offspring from the swinger parties and they will be geniuses who will hatch a cunning plan to populate korea and Japan with Korean-Japanese babies so that one day The Korea and The Japan will be one united nation spread over an island and a peninsular an hours flight away!

Am I the only one who thinks this is a good idea...?

[Reggie]

As silly and strange as the Dokdo stuff is, the Dokdo people aren't as crazy as some of the people in America where I'm from. Some Americans get their faces and legs blown off on behalf of the Stars & Stripes, Jesus, oil, and apple pie while fighting Iraqis for control of their land. Whenever I go to a football game in Neyland Stadium, before each game there's some priest or rabbi praying for our soldiers (they never pray for the suffering Iraqis) over the public adress system while over 100,000 football fans bow their heads and pray along with the guy. Then they play the national anthem.

It makes the Dokdo people in Korea look very well-adjusted in comparison.

[Wishmaster]

Yeah, but people in the US don't take out front page ads in the newspapers of other countries desperately trying to sway public opinion(especially on something that is so irrelevant like the Takeshima issue). And not everyone in the US thinks the same way on any one issue like they do in Korea. Try to find even one Korean who will actually engage in debate over Takeshima. You can't find one because the sheeple are indoctrinated in a Goebbelsesque manner.

[TheUrbanMyth]

[Kurtz]

I'm pretty sure if I was an American in NYC and some Asian looking guy started talking about an island I've never heard of which is part of a country I know nothing about apart from Seoul, '88 Olympic Games, Samsung, and Kia, I'd be thinking, who are these idiot people?? think I'll support Japan as these Koreans are so damn annoying!

Same as The Mormons and whoever else try to push their crap onto me, I'll just react in a negative way.

[Banana_Man]

[darkjedidave]

[curiousaboutkorea]

So, if there's all these natural resources there like gas.... why don't they start drilling already?

[Tundra_Creature]