Korean drycleaners want Americans to care about Dokdo
From the New York Times:
Chang-Duck Jeon, president of the Korean Dry Cleaners Association, assumed the role of publicist: He ordered 250,000 “Dokdo bags” from a South Korean manufacturer and solicited orders from the approximately 3,000 Korean-owned dry cleaners in the city. About 100 of them ended up stocking the bags.
“It was a way to speak out,” Mr. Jeon reasoned. “What’s ours is ours.”
It was not the first effort by Koreans to argue their case in the United States, but it might be the most ambitious. “This is the first attempt I’ve heard of to commercialize this,” said Alexis Dudden, a professor of modern Japanese and Korean history at the University of Connecticut who follows the Dokdo-Takeshima debate closely.
[via The Marmot's Hole]
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