The Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies is holding its 33rd Colloquium on Thursday, June 4th, 2009. Prof. Rainer Dormels will be lecturing on the topic,"The relationship between the notation of East Sea and Japanese Colonization." Prof. Rainer Dormels, currently a visiting scholar at the Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, is originally a professor at the Department of Koreanology at the University of Vienna.
The abstract of the lecture is as follows.

Abstract
The Japanese Foreign Ministry recently contradicted Korea's claim concerning the notation of East Sea. Korea claims that the name"Sea of Japan" has spread widely due to the colony rule and expansionism of Japan. However, Japan refutes that when they researched ancient maps, the name"Sea of Japan" was already the dominant name - thus proving Korea's claim to be unreasonable.
What is the relationship between the name"Sea of Japan" and Japanese colonialism? This lecture deals with this problem in depth.

The 33^rd Kyujanggak Colloquium
"The relationship between the notation of East Sea and Japanese Colonization"
Rainer Dormels
The Department of Koreanology, Institution for East Asian Studies at
University of Vienna, Austria
Visiting Scholar at the Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies

Date: Thursday, June 4^th, 2009, 4p.m.
Venue: 1^st floor seminar room, Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies

For more information, please contact the Division of Archive Research (Tel: 880-5827)
We await the participation of all those who are interested.

Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies