According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade yesterday, Apple has informed the Korean government that it will use all three names to describe Dokdo in markets other than Korea and Japan, where it will be described as Dokdo and Takeshima depending on the country of service.
“Apple recently notified us that its new English map service under the new iOS 6 mobile operating system will simultaneously use the Korean, Japanese and Franco-English name 'Liancourt Rocks' to describe Dokdo,” the official told reporters yesterday. “We protested to Apple’s Korean unit that using all three names isn’t right because Dokdo is clearly indigenous territory of Korea and the new reference is unacceptable.”
In response to the Korean government’s protest, Apple Korea said, “We didn’t have a choice because to Apple, the Japanese market is a couple of times bigger than the Korean market."
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I thought that was an interesting decision. It certainly didn't make Koreans happy though. I wonder if/how that decision could be changed?
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