Yellow Sea
Published on 16 Oct 2025
The ongoing dispute between South Korea and China over Chinese-constructed steel platforms in the Yellow Sea has escalated into a critical geopolitical flashpoint.
It falls in the western Pacific Ocean and is bordered by the Korean peninsula and the Japanese island of Kyushu on the east and China on the north and west.
In the south is the East China Sea.
Korea Bay and the gulf of Bo Hai are its main inlets, shaped by the Liaodong Peninsula jutting from the north and the Shandong Peninsula from the southwest.
The sea’s name is derived from the colour of the silt-laden water flowing into it from major Chinese rivers.
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