"West Sea"

[Benjamin Barrett]

That is their Coreacentric claim.

According to Wikipedia (https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%99%A9%ED%95%B4), however, in South Corea, the entire Yellow Sea is called 서해(西海/the West Sea) and in North Corea, it's ì¡°ì„ ì„œí•´(朝鮮西海/the Corean West Sea). There is even a map.

So I doubt CNN's claim, though they have the power to make it so, at least in English.

Benjamin Barrett
Formerly of Seattle, WA

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On Apr 29, 2014, at 1:14 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> So the West Sea is the eastern part of the Yellow Sea?
>
> JL
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>wrote:
>
>> There are a lot of web-mentions of the fact that the Yellow Sea is called
>> either the Yellow Sea or the West Sea in Korea.
>>
>> In 2010, however, CNN (
>> http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/11/26/koreas.crisis/) defines the
>> West Sea as the part of the Yellow Sea:
>>
>> -----
>> The West Sea, part of the Yellow Sea that is nearest to the Koreas, was
>> the scene of Tuesday's shelling.
>> -----
>>
>> I didn't search for any earlier results.
>>
>> FWIW, see also See also
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Japan_naming_dispute and
>> http://defence.pk/threads/south-korea-calls-for-sea-name-change.175344/for the Sea of Japan versus the East Sea.
>>
>> Benjamin Barrett
>> Formerly of Seattle, WA
>>
>> Learn Ainu! https://sites.google.com/site/aynuitak1/videos
>>
>>
>> On Apr 29, 2014, at 9:16 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> CNN now calls what was once the "Yellow Sea," the "West Sea."
>>>
>>> Is "Yellow Sea" now considered offensive?
>>>
>>> Acc. to Wikipedia, the name (translated from Korean) comes from the
>> golden
>>> tint of the waters, which is imparted by the down-flowing sands of the
>> Gobi
>>> Desert.
>>>
>>> "West Sea," of course, is blatantly ethnocentric. The area may be west of
>>> Korea, but it is equally east of China. That makes it part of the
>>> ethnocentric "East China Sea." Is it west or is it east? Up or down?
>>> Someone must decide.
>>>
>>> And while they're at it, there's the Black Sea, the Red Sea, and the
>>> transparently imperialist White Sea.

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