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

Categories: East Asia, Japan, South Korea, Digital Activism, International Relations, Protest, Technology, War & Conflict

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 [1] [ko], to plan a mass tweet-protest in several languages.