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¡ã Approaching Dokdo. Photo by Steve Oberhauser

Steve Oberhauser's full story will be in print and online at the end of the week. -- Ed.

It was a grueling 12 hours of roundtrip travel time to set foot on Dokdo’s concrete landing strip for 20 minutes.

Having traveled impartially through much of Korea and Japan, I have no concerns about ownership of the disputed territory between the two countries in the East Sea or the Sea of Japan, depending on one’s take.

I observed beauty. Nothing more or nothing less of the two islets and 35 rocks, lying in abundant fishing grounds 215 kilometers east of the Korean mainland.

Part of another educational “workshop” with my high school’s Korean employees, 14 of us ventured recently on a four-day tour of the mainland, exercising Korea’s multiple modes of transportation: airplane, mini-trot tour bus, taxi, gondola, tram, and the Ocean Flower ferry.

The Ocean Flower took us early one Monday morning first from Samcheok to Ulleungdo for a two-hour lunch break. Ulleungdo is some 135 kilometers east of the Korean mainland, and is famous for dried squid, pumpkin taffy and Chinese juniper woodcarvings. With roughly 10,000 inhabitants, the small fishing enclave is the stopping point before departing for Dokdo, and on the return trip back from Dokdo to the mainland.

We boarded again out of Ulleungdo, the second of four section rides this day; about three hours later Dokdo was ours – for a very short time.

Getting off the Ocean Flower, the fervor was frenetically intense. Nationalism poured out of the ship in droves and snap-happy camera wielders started clicking instantaneously. All together, tens of thousands of pictures were easily taken in a matter of minutes. It was a camera advertisement waiting to happen. I landed at 3:31 p.m., dodged most of our group photos, got lost in the shuffle, tried to unsuccessfully blend in to the others and took scenery shots.

Upon being located, my superior asked, “Why would Japan think they own this?”

Steve Oberhauser's full story will be in print and online at the end of the week. -- Ed.
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