South Korea‘s easternmost islets of Dokdo weren’t named on iPhone maps within the US, Britain and 20 different international locations, a professor stated amid diplomatic tensions with Tokyo over Japan‘s renewed claims to the East Sea outcroppings.
Dokdo has lengthy been a recurring supply of stress between the 2 neighbours, as Tokyo continues to make the sovereignty claims in its coverage papers, public statements and faculty textbooks.
The title of Dokdo was not seen in 22 international locations’ iPhone maps, together with France, Egypt and the Philippines, stated Search engine optimization Kyoung-duk, a Sungshin Girls’s College professor well-known for his efforts to advertise Korean pursuits overseas, experiences Yonhap information company.
Dokdo solely appeared on the Apple smartphone map in South Korea, whereas the islets had been labeled Takeshima, the title Tokyo makes use of in its sovereignty declare to the islets, in Japan.
In 2019, Search engine optimization surveyed the net map service of Google Inc. and found that Dokdo was labeled Liancourt Rocks in 26 international locations. The title Dokdo was solely used within the South Korean model of the map, whereas the Japanese model labeled the islets as Takeshima.
Liancourt Rocks is a reputation derived from a French whaling ship that first launched Dokdo to Europe within the nineteenth century.
Search engine optimization stated that he has protested constantly for the previous three years to have Dokdo’s correct title on Google Maps however the US web big has not accepted his demand.
“It’s a enormous downside that maps of Google and Apple, that are searched and utilized by billions of individuals every day, do not correctly label Dokdo,” Search engine optimization stated. The professor stated he plans to push each corporations once more to handle the issue.
South Korea has been in efficient management of Dokdo, with a small police detachment, since its liberation from Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule.
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