Template:Did you know nominations/Korean units


 * The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as |this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:13, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

Korean units

 * ... that, despite its ostensible adoption of the metric system in 1961, widespread commercial use of traditional Korean units continued in South Korea for another 46 years?
 * ALT1:... that South Korean strongman Park Chung-hee tried to metricate his country in 1961 but gave up trying to ban traditional Korean units by the end of the decade?
 * ALT2:... that the most commonly used 'traditional' Korean units were actually given their present values by the Japanese during their occupation of the country?
 * ALT3:... that the first act of the Empire of Korea after its formation was to attempt to standardize the different regional values of traditional Korean units?
 * ALT4:... that the South Korean government tried to metricate the country unsuccessfully four times before finally criminalizing traditional Korean units in 2007?
 * ALT5:... that Yun Byeong-su called his countrymen "idiots" for "still blathering on about don"?
 * ALT6:... that criminalization of Korean units also ended South Korea's use of American units for electronics but not for bowling balls or golf courses?
 * ALT7:... that Koreans usually think about residential and commercial floorspace in terms of the forbidden pyeong?
 * ALT8:... that the Korean foot is the same size as Japan's, but the Korean li is ten times smaller?
 * ALT9:... that Koreans traditionally measured farmland in majigi based on the area suitable for sowing a mal of seed?
 * Reviewed: Kaniakapupu
 * Comment: @Reviewers: Don't worry. You only need to review the hook(s) that are interesting to you.

Created by LlywelynII (talk). Self-nominated at 04:57, 5 June 2017 (UTC).


 * I think the best is ALT4, which ends with a nice "punchline", without emotionally loaded words that might create unnecessary ill will (strongman, occupation, empire, idiots, etc). I added a wiki link for "metricate". —Patrug (talk) 17:35, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the input! but I've removed the wikilink to the irrelevant article since the point of a hook is to drive traffic to the page we were just working on. If people are curious what "metrication" is, they can click through any of several links in the relevant article. It's a personal preference, but fwiw it's much more effective to remove extraneous links in DYK hooks than to introduce them. Also, without a review, it'll be up to the future reviewer which link is most interesting to her or him. — Llywelyn II   23:38, 7 June 2017 (UTC)