WHEN A PUBLISHER PLAYS IGNORANT OF WORLD HISTORY AND MAKES UP ITS OWN WITHOUT FACTS YOU GET THESE BIAS RESULTS AS INFO BASE PUBLISHING HAS JUST GIVEN AWAY THE ISLAND OF ULLEUNG OF S KOREA TO THE JAPANESE

An authoritative educational United States portal site indicated Korea's Ulleung Island on the East Sea as Japanese territory.

Infobase Publishing recorded the rocky steep-sided island as Japanese soil while omitting Korea's easternmost islands Dokdo in a map on its educational website, Facts on File.

This raised the ire of Koreans, as even Japan does not claim sovereignty over Ulleung Island although it has done so over Dokdo.

"I have hardly found any books or internet sites that show Ulleung Island as belonging to Japan. It is regrettable that a popular educational portal does so," Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK) founder Park Gi-tae said on Friday.

"We requested Infobase Publishing to correct the evident mistake. We also asked it to identify the waters between Korea and Japan as the East Sea, not just Sea of Japan. The blunders should be rectified as soon as possible because so many refer to the data."

More than 10,000 Korean citizens currently live on the 72.9-square-kilometer Ulleung, the country's ninth-largest island. The body of water surrounding the island is dubbed the East Sea in Korean while it is known in English as the Sea of Japan.

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