There's NOTHING in Korea on Google maps

Japan claims its sovereignty for Dok-do, or Takeshima, or Liancourt Rocks again.
Some people got extremely furious when they discovered on Google maps the sea bordered by Korean peninsular, Japanese archipelago, and Primorsky Krai of Russian Federation is named only Nihon-kai; while on Google Earth the sea has both names; Sea of Japan on Japanese side and East Sea, Korean equivalent name, on Korean side.

Dok-do has no name on it, nor has Ulleung-do. So if you are suddenly curious without any reason how Google maps show display the islands, just rush to the islands with sheer rejoice, which means all you have to do is rolling the wheel on your mouse.

Well, Dok-do is beyond Google maps' attention. They don't need to cover all the area on this meer planet where no one in the whole Galaxy cares about, you see.

Seoul, with the same scale of the map above.

Google maps display terrain of Seoul 150 years ago.

(Well, MS Live Maps does the same, but at least they show something.)

Suppose you see the same location with Google Earth. You'll see an island full of larvae instead of Jamsil Olympic Stadium, sand instead of Korean National Museum and US 8th Army HQ, a small and clean island instead of Seoul World Cup Stadium, which was built over a landfill, and a solid land instead of Yeoui Island. It's totaly a mess.

Incheon Int'l Airport, Jung-gu, Incheon, is floating on the sea.



How come there's nothing in Korea? What about somewhere else?

Linie U2 extension to Ernst-Happel Stadion, Leopoldstadt, Wien, Austria.

Linie U2 extension was built in last May. Only two months ago. And they're on the map. See those three blue Us? Brilliant update.

Cyprus and Israel, both excluding any information on Google maps.

Well, Korea is not the only one country obsolete on Google maps. Argentina, Guyana, Suriname, French Guianna, and Dominica Republic, and Cyprus and Israel are just blank countries on the map, too.

Cyprus is divided into Greek Cypriots (South Cyprus) and Turkish Cypriots (North Cyprus), with UN green line separating them. And I don't think I have to mention the cruelty of Israeli government. WECK!!!


Actually, Google did try to google gigantic geographic information from Korean gov't, only they were rejected because Korean law prohibits leakage of domestic geographic information. It was rumoured that Google tried to google those information for free, which in turn they offered camoflage of confidential Korean military spots.


At any rate, this explains why the hell Sea of Japan is the only dominant name of the sea between Korea and Japan, and this is not the ultimate question. The ultimate question is why the hell Google maps have NO information about Korea at all.