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South Korean Twitterers Mobilized As East Sea(Sea of Japan) Conflict Intensifies

Written byLee Yoo Eun

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Posted 22 July 2011 8:31 GMT

The ongoing territorial dispute over the Dokdo(Takeshima) island has flared up as the Japanese Foreign Ministry instructed a boycott against Korean Air for hovering over the island located in the disputed water. Korean Twitterers have set up a special website, IssueTok [ko], to plan a mass tweet-protest in several languages.

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