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Dokdo Address:1 through 96 Dokdo-ri Ulleung-eup Ulleung-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do Korea (101 lots)

Postal : 799-805

DOKDO OF KOREADokdo island! of Korea

■ Dokdo Address:1 through 96 Dokdo-ri Ulleung-eup Ulleung-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do Korea (101 lots) ■ Postal : 799-805■ 자료 출처: (이미지&자료)독도 연구소 : http://www.dokdohistory.com/

Source: (Picture & Base) Dokdo Research Institute: http://www.dokdohistory.com/

(자료)사이버독도 : http://www.dokdo.go.kr/

(Base) Cyber Dokdo: http://www.dokdo.go.kr/

(자료)동북아역사재단:http://www.historyfoundation.or.kr

4. 10. 2010

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CONTENTS :목차

About Dokdo? 4

History of Dokdo 5

Why Dokdo Korea island? 6 [Japan’s claim]

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동도 서도DONG DO SEODO

ABOUT Dokdo?

Dokdo is the easternmost territory of Korea and situated 87.4km to the southeast of Ullenungdo Island and 216.8km to the east of Jukbeon of the East Coast.

As it is 157.5km to the northwest of Oki Island of Shimane Prefecture of Japan, Japan cannot see Dokdo from Oki Island when we can see Dokdo from Ulleungdo Island on a clear day.

Dokdo has been created by volcanic activities. It is not one island, but consists of two large islands Dongdo and Seodo and 89 small islands around them.

ⓒ 사이버독도

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AD 1953

AD 1900

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AD 1905

AD 1693

AD 512

AD 1981

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AD 1998

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DOKDO HISTORY

King Jijeung of Silla conquered Usanguk in the 13th year of his reign - Samguksagi.

Yong Bok Ahn received verification from the Dokugawa Administration of Japan that Ulleungdo and Dokdo are Joseon’s territories - Sukjong Sillok

King Gojong declared Ordinance No. 41 to change the name of Ulleungdo to Uldo, ap-pointed a governor, instead of local administrator, and assigned Uldo to administer

Japan named Dokdo as Dakeshima and declared Shimane Notice No. 40 to absorb Dokdo into Japanese territories. (Korea lost national rights to Japan in November 1905 with the Eulsa Treaty.)

Ulleungdo and Dokdo were transferred from Gangwon-do to Gyeongsang-do in terms of jurisdiction.

The GHQ (General Headquarters Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers) declared SCAPIN No. 677 to exclude Dokdo from Japanese territories

Dokdo Royal Guards organized ? Dokdo Security (Chief Sun Chil Hong led 32 mem-bers.)

National Police Agency took over security of Dokdo

First resident moved to Dokdo (Jong Duk Choi - San 67 Dodong-ri Ulleung-eup)

Designated as National Cultural Heritage - Natural Monument No. 336 (Dokdo Seaweed Habitat)

New Korea-Japan Agreement on Fisheries signed

National Cultural Heritage Administration changed title of Dokdo’s designation as Natural Monument No. 336 (Dokdo Seaweed Habitat → Dokdo Natural Protection Zone)

April 7 - Dokdo’s administration name and lot numbers changed: Dodong-ri to Dokdo-ri (Seodo-1, Dongdo-2) * Lot numbers: San 42-76 Dodong-ri → San 1-37 Dokdo-ri

January 1 - The Ministry of Information and Communication assigned postal code ‘799-805’ to Dokdo

March 24 - 11 lots, including expedition path, released to the public (Dongdo) & Admission Permit System → Admission Registration System; September 21 - lot numbers changed from San 1 through 37 to 1 through 96

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> Why Dokdo Korea island?[Japan’s claim] “일본정부의 독도영유권 주장은 왜 허구인가?” ①

ⓒ동북아 역사재단 자료 중

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1. Concerning the claim that Japan has long recognized the existence of Dokdo

[Japan’s claim]o Japan has long recognized the existence of Takeshima [i.e. Dokdo].- Japan’s recognition is confirmed by a variety of written documents and maps, including the Kaisei Nippon Yochi Rotei Zenzu (“Revised Complete Map of Japanese Lands and Roads,” 1779) by Sekisui Nagakubo, which is the most rep-resentative cartographic work of Japan, complete with longitudinal and latitu-dinal lines.

[The truth behind the claim]o In the original edition of The Revised Complete Map of Japanese Lands and Roads, which is a map privately made in 1779, Ulleungdo and Dokdo are uncol-ored as is the Korean Peninsula. Also, the two islands are located outside the grid of Japan’s longitudinal and latitudinal lines, indicating that the islands are outside of Japanese territory.

o Meanwhile, there are a number of old Japanese maps published by the Japa-nese government, including The Chosen Tokai Kaiganzu (“A Map of the East-ern Coast of Korea,” 1876), which was published by the Ministry of the Japa-nese Navy, that places the two islands within Korea’s territory.

o Since 1696, when the Tokugawa Shogunate officially banned Japanese fisher-men from crossing the East Sea to Ulleungdo Island, Japanese people gradually became confused about the two islands, and not only did they refer to the is-lands in several different names such as Matsushima (松島), Riyanko Island (リヤンコ島), Ranko Island (ランコ島), and Takeshima (竹島), but also was the islands’ geographic location completely forgotten in the end

▲ Fig. 1 The Chosen Tokai Kaiganzu (“A Map of the Eastern Coast of Korea”, 1876) by the Japanese Ministry of the Navy: The map indicates that the two is-lands are within Korean territory.

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2. Concerning the claim that there is no evidence that Korea recognized the ex-istence of Dokdo in the past

[Japan’s claim]o There is no evidence that Korea recognized the existence of Takeshima [i.e. Dokdo] in the past.- There is no clear evidence to back up Korea”s claim that Usando is the cur-rent island of Dokdo. Also, Usando is presumably another name for Ulleungdo or an island that is inexistent in reality.

[The truth behind the claim]o One can safely conclude that Korea recognized Dokdo’s existence as early as when Ulleungdo was first inhabited, because in fair weather, Dokdo is within easy range of the naked eye from Ullengdo. Thus, such recognition enabled many government documents published during the Joseon period to contain a clear description of Dokdo: Sejong Sillok Jiriji (“Geographical Records in The Annals of King Sejong,” 1454), Sinjeung Dongguk Yeoji Seungnam (“The Newly Enlarged Geographical Survey of Korea,” 1530), Dongguk Munheon Bigo (“Reference Compilation of Materials on Korea,” 1770), and Mangi Yoram (“The Book of Ten Thousand Means of Governance,” 1808).

- The records of Dokdo in the latter two documents, Dongguk Munheon Bigo (1770) and Mangi Yoram (1808), present a particularly clear description stating: “Ulleungdo and Usando are lands of Usanguk [or the State of Usan], and Usando is the island that Japanese call Songdo [i.e. Matsushima].” No other record of this period contains a clearer statement which shows that Usando is an old name of Dokdo.

o An important Japanese document on the An Yong-bok Incident, “One-volume Memorandum Concerning the Korean Boat that Came Alongside the Sea-shore in the 9th Year of Genroku (元禄九丙子年朝鮮舟着岸一巻之覚書)”, which was discov-ered in Oki Island in 2005, also clearly shows that Ulleungdo and Dokdo were islands under the jurisdiction of Gangwon-do (or Gangwon Province) of Joseon. (See Fig. 5 below.)

o Although some old maps made in Korea may not fully capture the exact size and location of Dokdo, largely due to a lack of advanced cartographic technique, this is insufficient to prove that Korea did not recognize the existence of Dokdo at this time. - Almost all old Korean maps, made either in private or public, include the two islands Ulleungdo and Dokdo in the East Sea, showing that Korean people in the past clearly recognized the existence of both islands.

Dokdo Seen from Ulleungdo:One can see Dokdo from Ulleungdo in the naked eye.

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3. Concerning the claim that Japan established its sovereignty over Dokdo by mid-17th century

[Japan’s claim]o Japan used Takeshima [i.e. Dokdo] as a stopover port en route to Utsuryo [i.e.Ulleungdo] Island and also as fishing grounds. Thus, Japan established its sovereignty over Takeshima [i.e. Dokdo] by mid-17th century at the very lat-est.- In 1618 of the early Edo period, the two families, Oya and Murakawa in Yonago of Tottori-han received permission from the Shogunate for passage to Utsuryo Island [i.e. Ulleungdo], engaging in a kind of Shogunate-approved fishing mo-nopoly and sending abalones to the Shogunate to pay their tribute. Thus, Take-shima [i.e. Dokdo] was naturally used as a stopover en route to Utsuryo Island and as fishing grounds for catching abalones and sea lions.

[The truth behind the claim]o A permission or a license is not necessary to make passage to one’s domestic islands. Therefore, the very fact that government permission for passage was issued by the Shogunate, clearly shows that the Tokugawa Shogunate did not re-gard Ulleungdo and Dokdo as Japanese territories.

o A Japanese document, Onshu Shicho Goki (“Records on Observation in Oki Province,” 1667), which was published in mid-17th century, illustrates how the Japanese of their own accord did not consider Dokdo as Japanese territory: “The Oki Island marks the northwestern boundary of Japan”.

o In 1877, the Dajokan, or the Grand Council of State, officially admitted on the basis of a Korea-Japan agreement concluded in the late 17th century, that Dokdo was not Japan’s territory: “Regarding Takeshima [i.e. Ulleungdo] and the other island [i.e. Dokdo], it is to be understood that our country has nothing to do with them”.

o Meanwhile, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan also produced a similar report under the title, Chosenkoku Kosai-Shimatsu Naitansho (Confidential In-quiry into the Particulars of Korea”s Relations with Japan, 1870), after a secret investigation which was conducted on the “background of how Takeshima [i.e. Ulleungdo] and Matsushima [i.e. Dokdo] became annexed to Joseon”, thereby

publicly recognizing Matsushima [i.e. Dokdo] as Korea’s territory.

◀ Fig. 3 Chosenkoku Kosai-Shimatsu Naitan-sho (Confidential Inquiry into the Particulars of Korea”s Relations with Japan, 1870): This doc-ument, issued in 1870 by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, clearly states that both Ulle-ungdo and Dokdo are Korea’s territories.

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DOKDO OF KOREADokdo island! of Korea

독도는 AD 512년 전 부터 대한민국 땅이였습니다.