Unveiling ceremony at the lobby on the 1st floor of the YU Central Library at 1 P.M. on the 26th
'Open Dokdo Education' together with Dokdo Archives
[July 23, 2013]

 2m by 1.5m Dokdo model on display at the 1st floor lobby of the YU Central Library (left to right - Seodo (West Island) and Dongdo (East Island))

 "Do you want to know what Dokdo looks like? Then go to the YU Central Library 1st floor lobby."

 YU (President Noh, Seok Kyun) held the unveiling ceremony of the Dokdo model at the 1st floor lobby of the Central Library at 1 P.M. on the 26th and will put it on display.

 The Dokdo model, which is a 1/750 miniature model of the island, recreates the Dongdo and Seodo precisely. On the summit of the Dongdo is a helipad, Dokdo Guards and Dokdo Lighthouse, while also precisely expressing the many stone islands surrounding Dokdo such as the Hanbando-bawi, Dak-bawi, Janggun-bawi, Ori-bawi, Doknipmun-bawi, Buchae-bawi, Sutdol-bawi, Kokiri-bawi, and Gunham-bawi. By pressing the button in front of the model, the main points and names of the bawi (stone islands) of Dokdo can be checked by flickering switches and there are a number of videos related to Dokdo that plays on the screen behind the model.

 The Dokdo model that was leased from the Anyongbok Foundation by the YU Dokdo Institute (director Choi, Jae Mok) will be opened to students and the general public. Professor Choi, Jae Mok (52, Department of Philosophy), who is the director of the YU Dokdo Institute and organized the Dokdo exhibit, said, "We installed the Dokdo model in an open space so that people can realize that Dokdo is not a lonely rock island, but a territory of Korea filled with rich natural resources and history."

 Prior to the unveiling ceremony of the Dokdo model, an academic conference on 'Interdisciplinary research for establishing Dokdo studies' was held at the video conference room on the 2nd floor of the YU Law School Library. This was a mid-term assessment of the policy-oriented projects that the YU Dokdo Institute has carried on since being designated as a policy-oriented research center by the Ministry of Education in December 2007.

 With the Dokdo model unveiling ceremony, there were presentations on various themes such as 'Basic Studies for Drafting Dokdo Response Manuals', 'Analysis of Materials and Research of Dokdo by Japan', 'Ulleung-do in the Pan East Sea Culture Belt', 'Dokdo Education', and 'A Study on Dokdo's Ecological Preservation and the Biology of Dokdo Seas' and heated discussions among Dokdo experts.

 Meanwhile, the YU Dokdo Institute held the Dokdo Archives at the 6th floor of the YU Central Library since the 12th of last month to use as a 'Place for Open Dokdo Education'. The Dokdo Archives put on display 16 ancient maps of Korea and Japan related to Dokdo, 10 ancient documents such as the Korean Empire Edict, Shimane Prefecture Notice, Japanese Sailing Directions, and the Daijokan Orders, as well as 12 ancient literatures such as the Daehanjiji, Yeojaechwalyo, Dongguk Literature References, Yeojiji, and Lee, Gyu Heon Inspection Records, and about 10 textbooks for elementary and secondary schools related to Dokdo in Korea and Japan.