● Opening Addresses by

    PARK Nohyoung (President, The Society for East Sea)

● Welcoming Remarks by

    LEE Hoon (Director, Dokdo Research Institute, Northeast Asian History Foundation)

    KIM Young-won (Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the Kingdom of the Netherlands)

 ■ "Historical and Global Aspects of Geographical Names: The Case of the East Sea""
    KIM Jin-Hyun (Chairman, World Peace Forum; Advisor, The Society for East Sea)

 ■   Names as witnesses of our cultural heritage on the national and the international level
     Isolde HAUSNER (Professor, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria)

 ■  Place names dilemmas and international relations
    Milan Orozen ADAMIC and Drago KLADNIK  (Professor, Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia)

 ■  Is 'exonym' an appropriate term for names of features beyond any sovereignty?
    Peter JORDAN (Professor, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria)

 ■  Practice and policies of the use of binominals, endonyms and exonyms in the naming of sea bodies
    Rainer DORMELS (Professor, University of Vienna, Austria)

 ■  Maritime feature names: The role of UNGEGN during its first decade
    Paul WOODMAN (Former Secretary, Permanent Committee on Geographical Names, U.K.)

 ■  Interpreting United Nations resolutions on geographical names
    Peter RAPER (Former Chairman, UNGEGN; Research Associate, Unit for Language Management, University of the Free State, South Africa)

 ■  International norms on the naming features common to two or more states"
    PARK Nohyoung (Professor, Korea University, Korea)

 ■  The naming of maritime features viewed from an international law perspective"
    Erik FRANCKX (Research Professor, Department of International and European Law, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

 ■  Changing Indonesian sea names
    Ferjan ORMELING (Professor, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)

 ■  A Mediterranean example of problematic treatment of geographical names: Piranski zaliv (Bay of Piran) or Savudrijska vala (Bay of Savudrija)?
    Drago KLADNIK, Milan Orozen ADAMIC and Primoz PIPAN (Professor, Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia)

 ■  Naming the European seas
    Tjeerd TICHELAAR (Editor in Chief, Noordhoff Ultgevers Atlas Productions, The Netherlands)

 ■  Yuan Wei(1794-1857), his research and maps about East Sea
    CHENG Long (Professor, Beijing Language and Culture University, China)

 ■  Sea of Chosun appeared in old Japanese maps
    LEE Sang-Tae (professor, Korea International Culture University of Graduate, Korea)

 ■  10 Models of Mare Orientale (16C-17C)
    KIM Shin (Chairman, The Korean Academy of Business Historians: Professor, Kyung Hee University, Korea)

 ■  Colanial/postcolonialnamings and the East Sea/Sea of Japan
    John Rennie SHORT (Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore Country, U.S.A)

 ■  A cartographical analysis of Korean geographical names used in the Bulgarian language publications: a specific focus on East Sea and Dokdo
    Marin MARINOV (Geographer, Ed. Hölzel Geselschaft m.b.H.Nfg KG, Bulgaria)

 ■  In the name of identity: the East Sea, not the Sea of Japan
    KIM Yonghwan (Senior Research Fellow, Northeast Asian History Foundation)

 ■  Current status of the naming issue East Sea/ Sea of Japan
    CHOO Sungjae(Professor, Kyung Hee University, Korea)

 ■  Study on the geographical name "Japan Sea"
    WATANABE Kohei (Professor, Teikyo University, Japan)
    YAJI Masataka (Professor Emeritus, Yokohama National University, Japan)

 ■  The dual naming of English Channel/La Manche and Sea of Japan/East Sea: differences and similarities
    POKOLY Béla (Senior Advisor, Committee on Geographical Names, Ministry of Agriculture and Regional Development, Hungary)