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All posts tagged "Dokdo"

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  Korean American flash mobs celebrate Dokdo Day in NorCal

  By The Korea Times San Francisco staff About 100 Korean Americans stood united in front of San Jose City Hall Saturday for a flash mob stating Dokdo is Korean land. Participants ranged in age, from a three-year-old...

  • Posted October 26, 2015
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  SF-area Koreans call for Google to return Dokdo name to Maps

  Ahead of Dokdo Island Day this month, San Francisco-area Koreans and Korean Americans staged a flash mob in an effort to urge Google to change its naming of the disputed island. At Pier 39 Saturday, about 50...

  • Posted October 19, 2015
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  Seoul slams Japan for Dokdo claim in new school textbooks

  By Kim Soo-yeon SEOUL, April 6 (Yonhap) — South Korea strongly criticized Japan on Monday for intensifying its claim to Dokdo, a set of rocky islets in the East Sea, in new school textbooks, urging Tokyo to...

  • Posted April 6, 2015
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  US State Department revises Korea map to include Dokdo

  WASHINGTON, March 16 (Yonhap) — The U.S. State Department revised a map of Korea on its website Monday to include a reference to South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo. The islets, which Japan has long claimed, had...

  • Posted March 16, 2015
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  One dead, 4 others missing in fishing boat fire off Dokdo

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — One fisherman died and four others went missing Tuesday after a fishing vessel carrying 10 sailors caught fire off South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo, the safety ministry said. The fire on the Munseong...

  • Posted December 29, 2014
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  Japan denies S. Korean singer entry

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — Japan has denied a South Korean singer entry in an apparent retaliation for his recent performance of a song on South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo, also claimed by Tokyo, the singer’s management said...

  • Posted November 10, 2014
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  His name is Dok-do, Choi Dok-do

  By The Korea Times Los Angeles staff Choi Dok-do knows dedication. He lives it — from his car to his clothes to his name, the 58-year-old Los Angeles resident has given 10 years of his life to...

  • Posted September 17, 2014
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