A British daily has added the term "East Sea" on a map of Korea in its recent travel article that had only labeled a sea area by its Japanese name, after the Korean government requested both names be in the picture. The article showed a map of South Korea, with the sea to the east of the peninsula named the Sea of Japan — the Japanese name for the body of water between Korea and Japan. The existing standard identifies the sea between them as the Sea of Japan, as registered by Japan in the early 1920s, when Korea was a Japanese colony. Seoul has long campaigned for its own name, the East Sea, or the use of both names at the same time, arguing that the Sea of Japan is a legacy of Tokyo's imperialistic past. The government "requested a correction and the map in the article has been modified to include the East Sea," a foreign ministry official said.

Source: The Times January 05, 2024 11:57 UTC