
Once the sea of 3 nautical miles from the coast was accepted ownership of the coastal nation. One funny thing in this modern world is the ownership of sea is proportional to the size of landmass of the nation and the population of the nation. It seems to say that the name of sea means the ownership of the seas. It is confused with the name of East China Sea and South China Sea. It claims most of South China Sea and East China Sea. It is shared by China, Japan and Korea.Ĭhina is one nation who claims the sea belongs to it. Must one small nation be ignored in this modern civilized century? The sea is not owned by China and Japan. It is not an island, but Jeju residents thought it was their mythical island. Many Jeju fishermen who did not return from their fishing trips from unpredictable weather in rough seas are still living on this "island." It is a kind of gravesite. It was a Utopian island where many Jeju fishermen who could not return to their shore lived. This rock can be "ignorable" to Senkaku Islands or Diaoyu Isands, but it is an important South Korean landmark in the East China Sea. It is obvious that South Korea constructed its ocean research station on a submerged rock, because it is located inside the median line of Korea. China has not recognized its value South Korea explored and constructed and has been operating. Nevertheless, it has been explored by one nation for generating valuable, useful information about the weather conditions, currents, sea water temperature and natural and man-made disaster prevention among many others for many nations in East Asia and South Asia in the past 10 years. Ieodo is located 149 kilometers (81 nautical miles) away from Jeju Island, South Korea, 247 kilometers from China's Yushan Island in Zhejiang Province and 276 kilometers from Japan's Torishima.Ī submerged rock cannot constitute any nation's sovereign claim under the existing law of the sea. Long negotiations between South Korea and China have not resolved the maritime boundary, and will remain so. China wants most of the sea and South Korea wants the median line for the final resolution. However, the two nations have not yet settled their boundary lines after their 16th round of negotiations. Two hundred nautical miles from the coast claimed under an exclusive economic zone by South Korea and China must have overlapping sea. South Korea and China have not yet settled the sea boundary line in the small and narrow sea they share. During the period of 1995-2003, South Korea constructed its ocean research tower on Ieodo, a submerged rock in the East China Sea, and has been operating it inside the median line of the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea. South Korea's air defense identification zone has not been drawn since the 1950-53 Korean War, which was limited to Korea's coastal sea.

South Korea is an important nation missing in this map of the East China Sea tension. China's declaration of an air defense identification zone has drawn shocking attention from the world, but the people in the world do see only a conflict between China and Japan in alliance with the United States.
