I think this all stems down to the fact that Koreans just want more attention. You see how much the world knows about Japan, Japanese technology, etc. but nobody really knows about Korea. Koreans know this and can't stand it.

Also, Elizabeth called it the "East Sea of Korea" when everybody else in the WHOLE world calls it the Sea of Japan. It's NOTHING against Korea, it's just the same of the darn sea.

Now whenever non-Koreans say critical things about Korea, Koreans get really riled up. They claim that we don't understand because "we know little about Korea" or because we simply "are not Korean."

Many of us have lived in Korea for several years and know a great deal about Korea. Many of us have studied Korea and know its history better than the average Korean. Basically, don't assume if you don't know.

"Dokdo" is a Korean territory.

You can call it whatever you wish to call it but the truth is that the island belongs to Korea. for people calling it, a "rock" than why does Japan want it so much?

my cousin lives in Japan. She is an exchange student there and yes they teach that the"rock" is theirs… it's located in east sea of Korea. Don’t you find it strange that Japanese are trying so hard to teach people that the island is theirs? They only found out about the place few years back when Koreans were aware that there was an island that belong to them longggggg time ago. They don't need a book to teach them it's Korea’s territory.

If it's just a rock to you guys leave it alone.

I am already mad about the fact that the Japanese government don’t teach its citizens about dokdo and how that's their land but can't teach them about the history back when they invaded Korea.

My grandfather was there to experience it all. That’s why so many Koreans find it easy to speak Japanese. They were hit if they spoke Korean IN Korea!!! I find that ridiculous

they also killed 명성황후.. Korea’s queen and burned her body so nobody could find her… also they took all the men to do labor in Japan.. most of them never came back because the boat with approx. 8000 Korean men sank before coming back to their home land.. Some say that the Japanese government did that on purpose to kill them because the boat was suppose to contain no more than 2000men. However I can’t say because that I do not know…

Koreans were not allowed to own their own stores… only Japanese were allowed to do such thing to make money in Korea. I can write a novel about this but I will stop here because people on this site clearly don’t have any respect for Korea and make fun of Koreans as a whole.

When Korea can teach its students about hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs that happened in Japan and feel sympatric towards them, why can’t they do that for Korea? I truly think that Japan owes them a sincere apology and this will be over.

p.s — suh kyung duk was threatened and was sent black mails. When he put out an article in new york times about dokdo, many Japanese called him… threatening to kill him…. You don’t find that weird do you? It’s only Koreans that are weird loving a “rock”

It was hoped the new Japanese government would deal with territorial issues differently when they issued the new highschool textbooks but in reality they just did a slick little shuffle hoping the Koreans wouldn't notice.

The "new" Japanese highschool textbooks did not explicitly mention the Dokdo Takeshima dispute. The Japanese highschool textbooks said to refer to the middle school textbooks which do in fact state Takeshima is Japanese territory.

In other words, nothing has changed at all despite Japan's government's promise to deal with territorial issues in a more sensitive manner. Accordingly Korea responded in her traditional manner.

Japanese government, same BS, different a-hole and obligatory Korean heated response.

At first it sounds pretty ghey, but once you scratch the surface, it's more than just nationalism silliness. It's about money.