VANK Criticizes WHO for Not Including Dokdo on Map
Of all the things to criticize the WHO over this is by far the least important. How boring of a life you must have to troll websites to look for a reason to feign outrage over Dokdo:
The World Health Organization (WHO) has yet to add the easternmost islets of Dokdo to a map of Korea on its official website, despite repeated calls from civic activists and citizens here, according to the Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK) Tuesday. VANK is a civic diplomacy organization with more than 120,000 members.
Korea Times
In the ‘countries’ section of the website, the health organization provides brief information about each member state including a map. The map of South Korea is missing some of its territories including Dokdo and nearby Ulleung Island in the East Sea.
However, the islands are included in the map of Japan, which some believe gives the impression that they are Japan’s territory. The country has been making repeated territorial claims on Dokdo, over which Korea claims sovereignty.
You can read more at the link, but no one who goes to the WHO website would think that Dokdo is owned by Japan based on these maps. Hardly anyone outside of Korea knows where or what Dokdo is. It is pretty clear whoever put the website together just zoomed in the map on South Korea because it is so small. Japan on the other hand is much larger and the map was zoomed out to picture it.
This would be the equivalent of an American being upset because the Farallón de Pájaros island was not included on a map of the United States.
This reminds me of the map of Korea that was in Hanson Field House at Camp Casey. The map showed the Sea of Japan as ‘East Sea’, so I complained on ICE that it didn’t reflect the naming convention that the military recognizes. A few days later the map was taken down.
LOL, looking back it was small to engage in such trivial Korean arguments, but that’s the pettiness that Koreans engulf you with when you’re there.
Imagine having such an empty life that one criticizes the WHO website for inaccurate country maps…
“VANK CRITICIZES WHO FOR NOT INCLUDING DOKDO ON MAP”
Shouldn’t that be:
“VANK CRITICIZES WHOM FOR NOT INCLUDING DOKDO ON MAP”
CH, it might be that it really was Moon, Entwistle, and Daltrey they meant to complain about.