"Sea of Japan" on map of UN management site ... Korean prof "Write the East Sea too"

Seo Kyung-deok, a professor at Sungshin Women's University, discovered that "Sea of Japan" was written as Exclusive on a website managed by the United Nations (UN), and the UN side announced that he had protested against

Professor Seo said on his SNS on May 31st, "On the map of the 'Geospatial' site operated by the UN, the name of the sea between South Korea and Japan is described as the Sea of Japan. We sent a protest email to UN Secretary-General António Guterres and UN193 member countries (other than South Korea), along with English documents on the East Sea, and asked for corrections."

It is said that the protest mail contained the recommendations made through the United Nations Conference on Standardization of Geographical Names (UNCSGN) held in 1977. "If two or more countries do not agree on a single name for a feature shared by two or more countries, the name used by each country shall be listed together."

Professor Seo said, "I emphasized this part in particular, and insisted on the legitimacy of adding Tokai together." He continued, "Many of the world's influential media and map production companies are writing together. In addition, the state of Virginia in the United States has declared a joint notation bill, and the New York Board of Education has officially decided to write together. We shared the facts together."