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Professor seeks to hold golf event on Dokdo
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Prof. Seo Kyung-duk
By Jhoo Dong-chan
By Jhoo Dong-chan
A scholar promoting the nation’s easternmost islets of Dokdo has disclosed a plan to hold a golf event on the rocky volcanic outcroppings to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japanese colonial rule.
Prof. Seo Kyung-duk of Sungshin Women's University, also known as an expert in promoting South Korea abroad, said Tuesday that his plan aimed to help the world better understand the islets.
“We are thinking of a tee shot event hitting from Dokdo’s Eastern Islet to Western Islet,” said Seo. We will invite renowned golfers at home and abroad to Dokdo.”
The distance between the islets is about 150 meters, equivalent to a par 3 hole on a regular golf course.
The professor, 40, has promoted Dokdo in various ways.
Last year, he made a YouTube video, “Dokdo News,” about the sovereignty issues over the islets and distributed it to more than 600 foreign media outlets.
He also collaborated with Kim Jang-hoon, a Korean singer and anti-Japanese activist, to run an advertisement promoting Dokdo in the New York Times and on the screen at New York’s Times Square in 2012.
Seo said he would continue to help the world gain a better understanding of Dokdo.
He and his partner Yoon Jong-shin, a Korean singer and producer, have been making a “Dokdo Song” since last year and plan to showcase it before the Aug. 15 Liberation Day.
Seo’s campaign is seen as a response to Japan’s claims to Dokdo and its distortions of history.