Located on the peninsula, South Korea is washed in the west by the Yellow Sea, in the east by the Sea of ​​Japan, and in the south by the East China Sea. In fact, the country is surrounded by water: the length of the coastal line of South Korea is 2,413 km.

In fact, on most maps two Korea are washed by the sea, only the Koreans themselves do not agree with this. In fact, that the border between the seas, that their names are very conventional. Residents of the country have long divided the adjacent to their peninsula part of the Pacific Ocean in their own way, into three seas: the Eastern, Southern and Western. The East Sea is better known as the Japanese Sea, but in Korea this name is never mentioned, the Western one is referred to as the Yellow one here occasionally, and the South Sea by cartographers is also called the Strait of Korea.