Talk:Korean units of measurement

Add'l units
There's probably some Korean form of chongbo that is missing. also has some form of bo as a synonym for pyeong and a jak equal to $1⁄10$hop. has a ma intermediate between ja and li; the deok as a variant of the seom; a danbo larger than the jeongbo; and a gama larger than the seom. also mentions the "pre-Japanese" units of "joom" (equated with a square meter in 1902), "dan", "jim", and "muk" and the traditional "mun". — Llywelyn II   07:51, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

has the gok or kok of "5–10mal"; a sŏk of 144kg, rather than as a unit of volume; and a bolt (,, pil or p'il) used as a cloth measure. — Llywelyn II   22:55, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Sources for future article expansion
Except for this



these seem to be blog posts (and therefore non-) but still go into greater detail about the rationale and workings of the historical units. If they can't be used themselves, they can still point to more items for inclusion and help people find better sources on the same topic.



— Llywelyn II   23:22, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Korean units of measurement use in the Korean martial arts
Does anyone known whether or not the Korean units of measurement are used for Taekwondo or other national combat sports weigh-in procedures? 93.74.129.41 (talk) 16:12, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Does it matter? Anything important would need to be so standardized that you're essentially dealing with a metric number anyway. They wouldn't be comparing the competitors to a local measuring stone that the merchants occasionally chisel bits off to improve profits. — Llywelyn II   11:37, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

1296 feet to a furlong/mile
I know there's a bunch of sources provided but I don't know how much they support the text next to them and I don't know how much they're repeating each other. This absolutely thorough guide to Korean cartography cites chapter and verse on the Korean legislation that set the ri at 360 po, making it equivalent to 2160 ch'ok and shows examples of that ratio being used in other official Joseon documents. Is this just sources not knowing what they're talking about? or being misused to pretend that modern conversions have always been universally practiced, like the Chinese sources that imagine the metric li of 500 meters was used during the imperial era? — Llywelyn II   11:37, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

Similarly
it presents five separate feet used in various contexts, none of which are the number being given here. If this number is from specific Japanese-era legislation, ditch the talking-out-of-their-nethers "sources" and just clearly provide the date and legislation that our current chart is using. Then, as much as possible, provide the correct information for earlier eras instead of handwaving it as 'variable'. — Llywelyn II   11:42, 19 March 2023 (UTC)