East Sea Controversy Goes to Google Ads
Japan Probe is reporting that the war over ” The Sea that Cannot Be Named” has a new front, Google Ads:
I came across the following advertisement today while viewing a site that had Google Ads:
The ad link led to http://eastsea.koreanblog.com, which appears to be a small free blog set up by someone. There is only one post on the blog, parroting the usual ultranationalist Korean argument against the international usage of the name “Sea of Japan.”
This guys blog is low budget and cheesy. You would think that if you are willing to put up the money to buy a Google Ad you would at least put a half way decent webpage together. Additionally the last time the webpage was updated was in 2004. Can this issue get any more stupid?
Sad to say, none of this surprises me at all.
I'm surprised they haven't lobbied to some global organization to swtich 'korea' to 'Corea'. Latin Americans already use the latter, and if North America and Europe follows suit, corea will finally tower over Japan. The Japanese may have survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but the country being outranked by 'Corea' in alphabetical order? They could never recover from such devastation.
Even the N in "Nippon" (or is it Nihhon) is several letters after C in "Corea". Pil Seung, Corea!
"Huh teun soojak"
Why must Koreans employ such tactics.
Hmmm…
Being that the position of the country's name in the English alphabet is obviously so important, it might go something like this…
Korea huffs and changes it's name to Corea. Victory over Japan is complete.
Japan snorts and reverts to using the old Chinese name (as recorded by Marco Polo) of Cipangu… beating out Corea by a 5 whole letters.
Corea furrows it's brow and goes retro with a name change to Chosan putting them one up on Cipangu.
Cipangu scowls and searches its history books before deciding on the ancient name of Akitsushima.
Chosan digs back through five thousand years of history and stumbles upon Asadal. K L M N O P Q R S. Drat… better change the spelling to Aasadal. Beat that!
Next step: Argue about the name of the Sea of Akitsushima.
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LMAO 🙂
I'm going to stick with calling it the Sea that Cannot Be Named.