▲ The UN's own site pointed out by Vank


Although it was pointed out that the United Nations alone marked the East Sea as the Sea of ​​Japan on its website, it was revealed that they did not fix it.



Yesterday (21st), VANK revealed the fact that the East Sea is exclusively labeled as the Sea of ​​Japan in its website operated by the United Nations for the world through its official SNS channel. 



On October 16, last year, VANK confirmed that the East Sea was exclusively marked as the Sea of ​​Japan on the UN's own website.



After that, Vank continued to send a protest e-mail to the UN, urging the change, but five months later, the expression had not been corrected, and he said that he had not received a separate response. 



In fact, when you access the site, the East Sea is still marked exclusively as the Sea of ​​Japan.

In the end, BANK came to urge the individual to rectify the sea of ​​Japan labeling through an international petition.



Based on the fact that Vank announced at the 1977 United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names (UNCSGN), "If it is difficult to agree on a single name for a feature shared by two or more countries, the names used by each are added together." The labeling violated the rules set by the United Nations on its own,” he pointed out.



He also criticized the UN's sole indication of the Sea of ​​Japan, saying, "Failing to adhere to the principles set by ourselves is an act that cannot be set as an example as an international organization."



Vank was concerned that the Japanese government would give the world an excuse to publicize the Sea of ​​Japan on a global scale by using the 'Sea of ​​Japan sole mark' on a site officially operated by the United Nations. 



This is because if international organizations neglect the problem of notation, it can become a major obstacle to the activities of correcting the notation that VANK and other private organizations, the government, and academia have worked hard for for a long time.



As of 4 pm on the 22nd, about 4,000 people have participated in the petition.



Park Ki-tae, head of BANK, said, "We look forward to the active participation of 7.5 million overseas Koreans and Koreans in the UN site mark correction campaign." 



In the meantime, through the 'Notation Correction Movement', VANK has forced the 'East Sea' to be used in the notation of the Sea of ​​Japan in National Geographic, a map production publisher, Dolling Kindersley (DK), a textbook publisher, and Lonely Planet, a tourism publisher.





(Source: United Nations Map Web Service, Bank Facebook)