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Seoul Changes Chinese Name I thought the request from South Korea to change the name was odd, citing Chinese names for foreign places are as close phonetically as possible to the cities' names in the native languages elsewhere, but not in the Korean case. I just felt it was like someone coming into my house and telling me that he/she does not like the position I placed my sofa and wants me to move it to a position he/she indicated. It is by all means the Chinese's right to call something whatever name they want to call it by, this is their right to use their language.After all, I am sure the Koreans don't call China exactly "Zhong Guo". Besides, I don't think how "Han Cheng" is a derogatory term, I've never thought of it as having a Chinese-related meaning, nor do I think of China when I see the term, I just think of the capital of Korea, and I've seen this term a zillion times. |