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The Korea Hall of the British Museum describes the Chosun Dynasty as a vassal state of China. The British Museum gets 5.5 million visitors a year.
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An eagle-eyed group patrolling cyberspace with the aim of correcting historical inaccuracies about Korea has singled out the British Museum for describing the country under the Chosun Dynasty as a "vassal Kingdom" of China.
The Korean Voluntary Agency Network (VANK) says a label explaining the history of the Chosun Dynasty in the Korea gallery of the London museum reads, "Korea was a vassal kingdom of China."
"While explaining the history of the Chosun Dynasty, it uses the word 'Korea' rather than 'Chosun,' making it seem as if the Korean people spent their entire history as a Chinese vassal state," VANK president Park Ki-tae said Wednesday.
"It leaves a bitter taste in the mouth that this distortion, along with the fact that the Korea gallery is only one-fifth the size of the Chinese or Japanese galleries, is like confirmation that Korea was a vassal state of China," he said. "We hope the government shows interest in this."
The self-styled "cyber diplomacy" group is also unhappy that a world map in the underground station at Piccadilly Circus, a major London tourist attraction, marks the East Sea as the "Sea of Japan."
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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