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maximmm
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 Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 7:20 am Post subject: Google doesn't understand Korean culture |
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2013/08/116_141827.html
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NEW YORK ― Koreans fumed when Internet giant Google wiped the name “Dokdo” from its map late last year. Months have passed since Google refused to budge, letting the impact of the news slowly lose steam. Then, a group of Koreans in California stepped up to the plate.
Last October, Google updated its popular map service, changing the name of the Dokdo islets, a well-known bone of contention between Korea and Japan, to “Liancourt Rocks,” named after the French whaler who found the small cluster of rocks in the East Sea.
In its effort to be fair, Google Maps currently shows the territory as Dokdo when accessed from Korea, Takeshima from Japan, and Liancourt Rocks anywhere else.
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We, in our apologist camp strongly condemn Google and its unwillingness to be more understanding. We would also like to strongly advise the Google officials to go through a 4-week orientation session (similar to those that NETs have to go through these days with mandatory trips to Dokdo and the Independence Hall of Korea) and write a 10 page essay on why Dokdo is Korean and Japan is bad. |
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transmogrifier
Joined: 02 Jan 2012
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 7:41 am Post subject: |
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| Google can label them however they want. The end. |
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yodanole
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| Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 9:38 am Post subject: |
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| Aren't the Liancourt Rocks located in the Sea Of Japan? |
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PatrickGHBusan
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| Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 11:20 am Post subject: |
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Google can certainly label things as they see fit.
They can update their maps as they see fit. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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In its effort to be fair, Google Maps currently shows the territory as Dokdo when accessed from Korea, Takeshima from Japan, and Liancourt Rocks anywhere else.
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Makes sense to me. |
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Weigookin74
Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Captain Corea wrote: |
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In its effort to be fair, Google Maps currently shows the territory as Dokdo when accessed from Korea, Takeshima from Japan, and Liancourt Rocks anywhere else.
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Makes sense to me. |
List three names elsewhere (Dokdo, Takeshima, and Liancourt Rocks). Though given Japanese brutual history over Korea, I am partially sympathetic to Korea's claim as they have had a permanent presence over the past 50 years there. (But, I admit I'm probably the only waygook sympathetic to Korea in this regard. Those who have read my posts over the years know I am no apologist either.) |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Captain Corea wrote: |
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In its effort to be fair, Google Maps currently shows the territory as Dokdo when accessed from Korea, Takeshima from Japan, and Liancourt Rocks anywhere else.
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Makes sense to me. |
Yeah, it's more or less the most politically correct method possible for dealing with this "controversy." |
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Scorpion
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| Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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| It is a reasonable position to take. It respects everybody's sensibilities. Unfortunately for a certain nation, still in a pre-adolescent stage of emotional development, being reasonable and mature will always come second to yelling, complaining, and insisting that an arrangement is 'unfair'. Why is it unfair? Because they didn't get everything they wanted, and didn't get to see the other kid cry. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Scorpion wrote: |
| It is a reasonable position to take. It respects everybody's sensibilities. Unfortunately for a certain nation, still in a pre-adolescent stage of emotional development, being reasonable and mature will always come second to yelling, complaining, and insisting that an arrangement is 'unfair'. Why is it unfair? Because they didn't get everything they wanted, and didn't get to see the other kid cry. |
As opposed to what? The mature nations of the world which practiced chattel slavery, brutal colonialism, industrial genocide, nuclear war, and wars for oil?
I'd take Korea's "immaturity" anyday over that record of utter barbarism, depravity and "maturity". |
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Zyzyfer
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| Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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maximmm you have been on a roll lately, cheers  |
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Weigookin74
Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Scorpion wrote: |
| It is a reasonable position to take. It respects everybody's sensibilities. Unfortunately for a certain nation, still in a pre-adolescent stage of emotional development, being reasonable and mature will always come second to yelling, complaining, and insisting that an arrangement is 'unfair'. Why is it unfair? Because they didn't get everything they wanted, and didn't get to see the other kid cry. |
Japan? Are they still holding right wing protests over their beloved Takeshima? |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2013 4:17 am Post subject: |
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| In its effort to be fair, Google Maps currently shows the territory as Dokdo when accessed from Korea, Takeshima from Japan, and Liancourt Rocks anywhere else. |
That seems a pretty fair way to deal with this. Everyone should be happy / somewhat satisfied in a way. |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2013 4:17 am Post subject: |
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| Zyzyfer wrote: |
| maximmm you have been on a roll lately, cheers |
+1
It has been well done. |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2013 4:23 am Post subject: |
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I propose the amalgamation: Dokeshimcourt.
Ever look at the place in Google Earth? It's a depressing pile of badly taken pictures with titles like "Japan monkey go home". *sigh* |
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12ax7
Joined: 07 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2013 5:51 am Post subject: |
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| Captain Corea wrote: |
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In its effort to be fair, Google Maps currently shows the territory as Dokdo when accessed from Korea, Takeshima from Japan, and Liancourt Rocks anywhere else.
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Makes sense to me. |
...albeit a bit extreme. For example, do they name every single island in Canada, tens of thousands of which are larger than those rocks? |
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