Korean ultra-nationalists angry at the UN’s latest map
Members of the Voluntary Agency Network for Korea (VANK), South Korea’s biggest ultra-nationalist civic group, are quite annoyed by the above map, which recently appeared on the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization’s website. What is wrong with it?
Korea calls the waters the “East Sea” and has requested the world to use at least both expressions _ Sea of Japan and East Sea _ on their maps.
The FAO map also misspells “Ullung Island” in East Sea as “Ulreuno-Do” and “Kurye” in South Cholla Province as “Gurve” to name two of the other mistakes.
VANK founder Park Gi-tae has called on the UN to correct the mispellings and add “East Sea” to the maps, and has stated just how important this issue is:
“Before achieving its self-proclaimed goal of defeating hunger in the world, the FAO should rectify its mistakes on South Korea.”
Now that’s some reasonable thinking.
[From Lost Nomad's "Ignorant Quote of the Week" Award]
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