■ Opening Addresses by

         Lee Ki-Suk (President, The Society for East Sea, Republic of Korea)

■ Welcoming Remarks by

         Rainer Dormels (Professor, University of Vienna)
         Kim Young-won (Ambassador for Geographic Naming, Republic of Korea)

 ■ Nihon Kai and Tong Hae-Sea of Japan and East Sea: Are they exonyms or allonyms, and is there a missing term?
         Naftali Kadmon (Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

 ■ The naming of seas, maritime features and currents (Examples in English, German and Hungarian)
         Márton Mátyás and Gercsák Gábor (Professor, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)

 ■ The most important old maps on Korea which denotes its relationship with China and Japan
         Soh Jung-Chul (Professor Emeritus, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea)

 ■ Naming of seas in the Far East in some recent maps and atlases
         Pokoly Bela (Senior Adviser, Committee on Geographical Names, Ministry of Agriculture and Regional Development, Hungary)

 ■ Highlights on the seawater's geographical names of the Gulf Co-Operation Council
         Saif Al-Qaydi (Professor, United Arab Emirates University, U.A.E.)

 ■ Dead Sea: Names and its relation with geology and religious believes
         Ibrahim Musa Zoqurti (Member, National Committee on Geographical Names, Royal Jordanian Geographical Centre, Jordan)

 ■ Toponymy and undersea topographic features
         Norman Z. Cherkis (Consultant, Five Oceans Consultants, U.S.A.)

 ■ Even Japan used the name East Sea and Sea of Joseon, not Sea of Japan [Korean]
         Lee Sang-Tae (Chair-Professor, Korea International Culture University of Graduate, Korea)

 ■ Korean geographical names in Bulgarian geography: Case study of the East Sea and Korea
         Marin Marinov (Professor, Community College of Deaf, Targovishte, Bulgaria)

 ■ Hydrographic environment and SP-23 (Limits of Oceans and Seas) 
         Kim Shin (Professor, Kyunghee University, Korea)

 ■ ”East Sea” and "Korean East Sea”： Records about the sea area to the east of Korean Peninsula on Chinese literatures during the last 1000 years
         Han Maoli (Professor, Peking University, China) and Cheng Long (Professor, Beijing Language and Culture University, China) 

 ■ Recent progress for restoring the name East Sea and future research agenda
         Choo Sungjae (Professor, Kyunghee University, Korea)

 ■ The naming of sea, East Sea and Japan Sea, before and after Russo-Japanese War in 1905
         Nikolai Komedchikov (Head of Cartography Department, Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)

 ■ The naming of seas in Austrian school atlases
         Lukas Birsak (Ed. Hölzel Gesellschaft m.b.H. Nfg KG, Austria)

 ■ The territorial dispute over Dokdo/Takeshima/Liancourt Rocks: Risks and opportunities
         Winfried Flüchter (Chair for Human Geography, Institute of Geography and Institute for East Asian Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen)

 ■ Consideration about legitimacy of "the East Sea of Korea/East Sea” naming 
         Sagong Jun (Professory, Korea University, Japan)

 ■ Process of the acquisition of sea name in the case of East Sea/ Sea of Japan
         LI Jin-Mieung (Professor, Universite of Lyon 3, France)

 ■ Naming the sea in major US newspapers: From poetry to politics, and to ethics 
         Choi Yearn Hong (Former Professor. University of Seoul, Poet, U.S.A.)

 ■ Interactivity and cartography
         Georg Gartner (Professor, Institut für Geoinformation und Kartographie, TU Wien, Austria) 

 ■ United Nations Resolutions pertaining to the names of seas and oceans
         Peter Raper (Fonner Chairman, UNGEGN，Research Associate, Unit for Language Management, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa)