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Bringing Human into the Game: A Way Forward for the East Sea/Sea of Japan Naming Issue

CHOO SUNGJAE 1

1경희대학교

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ABSTRACT

Recent occurrences of debates and movements with regards to the East Sea/Sea of Japan naming issue reconfirm that there are groups of actors in this naming game with diverse interests and perspectives. Governments, as the main actor of the game, try to persuade other actors with tracks of arguments and counter-arguments. Given the parallel realities going forward without meeting each other, there could be some options for agreement suggested other than two extremes of the Korean and Japanese positions; looking for alternative methods of showing two names; listing all the names in one map as a table; distinguishing international from domestic use of the name and agreeing on a new name for international use. It is suggested that the next focus should be placed on the meanings of human and its applicability to such elements as value, justice, perception or cultural heritage. This focus on human can be developed with concepts of education value and social justice, people’s strong emotional ties and perception to the feature and its name, and growing emphasis on geographical names as having higher value as cultural heritage.

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