To many of us the recent row between South Korea and China over academic research about Balhae, 발해, 渤海, Bóhǎi, is simply bizarre.
How can you take "diplomatic measures" against an academic paper? If an academic paper is wrong, you refute it with another academic paper, not by aggressive demonstrations.
However, in this realistic world of ours, you have to accept the importance many South Koreans attach to this issue. If it is important to them, it is a delicate issue, in spite of the fact that what they claim is completely wrong.
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