Wikipedia talk:Korea-related topics notice board/Archive 2

Hanja needed
Hello, my contributions to Wikipedia are irregular (and tend to come in spurts), but I think I can often try to help with Hanja as I have some idea of how Korean Hanja (and Japanese kanji) pronunciations link to those in my native language (Cantonese), so that I can often come up with the correct Hanja. Please leave a message if you think I may be of help. (I just added Hanja to Yeongyang.) -- KittySaturn 18:20, August 26, 2005 (UTC)

I would like to request for the hanja and hangul for East Asian Tigers. Thanks. &mdash; Instantnood 07:20, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
 * The term doesn't seem to be widely used, but it would be translated as 동아시아의 호랑이, which yields a stunning 3 Google hits. There is surely a more idiomatic translation.  Help, anyone?  -- Visviva 03:43, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I get three times as many Google hits for 사소룡. Wikipeditor 14:39, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Good one! The hanja of course being 四小龍.  Looks like a keeper.  I wonder if Instantnood is still watching this page ... or remembers why he needed this information?  -- Visviva 16:08, 8 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Is there any equivalent term used in South Korea to convey the same concept? &mdash; Instantnood 21:28, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Request for revert moves.
Someone moved several Korea-related pages. For example, he moved Kim Young-sam to Gim Yeongsam, and Chun Doo-hwan to Jeon Duhwan. Please see Special:Contributions/%C2%A7 -- ChongDae 22:54, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Need Korean perspective on issue
The article Seal (Chinese) already has the Chinese and Japanese uses, but we need a Korean perspective too. For example, what do seals look like in Korea and how often are they used and for what purpose? --Jiang 00:19, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
 * You mean the Imperial Seal of Korea? I have not heard of such thing being existing. Could be existing. --Dooly00000 13:02 24 June, 2006 (UTC)

Odd articles
I'm just going to mention a couple of articles that I've run across lately. They seem, well, odd. I'll add more if I run across them. Any help in understanding these articles, and how they can best be made into useful parts of Wikipedia, would be appreciated:
 * Koreaphobia -- can this ever be more than a foreign-language dicdef?
 * Gangpeh -- is this term actually used (in English-language discourse)? if so, by whom?  (A Google search turned up mostly online gamers).  If not, how should our treatment of Korean organized crime be structured?

Thanks! -- Visviva 13:30, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Regarding Koreaphobia, I think that's relating to the one of the African-American shot by Korean shopkeeper in 1990's. This caused not only controversey because of shootings, also main reason is that, Ice Cube, the ex-NWA member has made rap lyric regarding this. Link regaring this can be found here: http://hcs.harvard.edu/yisei/issues/spring_92/ys92_6.html
 * Gangpeh, 깡패, Can be also mentioned as Jopok, 조폭, which is short for jojik-pokryukbae, 조직폭력배, or Organized Mob. Usually, it's both, but in the term of law, the latter is more commonly used, while first is more commonly used as pointing someone more of an outlaw, a one who uses strength to gain whatever.

--Dooly00000 13:01 24 June, 2006 (UTC)

korean company stub sub-category
i noticed that Korean stubs category is full of korean companies, that would be better organized under its own subcategory. i tried to create a korean company stub subcategory, but if someone knows how to do this already, i would really appreciate it. i can then get moving on just the fun & exciting part, actually re-categorizing the stub articles. thanks. Appleby 17:53, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I was thinking that would be a good idea too. I've created korea-corp-stub and Category:Korean corporation stubs by analogy with Japan-corp-stub and India-corp-stub. Kappa 18:07, 16 January 2006 (UTC)


 * thanks. i've blanked the two pages i created, & will starting moving things to your corp category. Appleby 18:26, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Note that these have been renamed via WP:SFD to Category:Korean company stubs and korea-company-stub, with korea-corp-stub remaining as a redirect. --TheParanoidOne 06:46, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Romanization for Bohai-related articles
I proposed to use Pinyin as the default romanization for Bohai-related articles (again). If you are interested, add your comments at Talk:Bohai. --Nanshu 10:27, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Religious articles needing cleanup
OK, I realize that pretty much all religion-related Coreana are in need of cleanup, but I stumbled across a whole clutch of "new" ones that seriously need some work. Any help much appreciated. See Category:Poch'ongyo and Category:Jeung San Do. -- Visviva 13:11, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Nationalistic bias in Kumdo-related articles
I thought I'd bring this to the attention of people who might care or know a little more than the small group of us who have been following these disputes.

Basically, articles about Kumdo have been frequently edited and reverted back and forth with obvious anti-Korean and anti-Japanese biases. These articles include:
 * Kumdo
 * Samurang
 * Haidong Gumdo

The first two have settled into something resembling NPOV, but are still frequently reverted to their biased state on occasion by a few dedicated users (who will also strip any POV-check tags appearing on the articles). AKADriver 18:21, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

merger proposals
need comments on proposed mergers & help with clean-up of these articles:


 * Korean-Japanese disputes and Japanese-Korean relations
 * Yamato people and Origin of Korean and Japanese
 * Hanja and Sino-Korean Appleby 07:47, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

2006 Winter Olympics (from front page)
The 2006 Winter Olympics is coming up. This may be a good time to expand on Category:South Korean speed skaters. I just edited Kim Ki-hoon and Chun Lee-kyung to include infoboxes (please verify for correctness). There are many Korean speed skaters with no biographies. Please check the medal winners' charts in the following, and create articles for them if you can: --Endroit 20:08, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Short track speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics
 * Short track speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics
 * Short track speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics
 * Short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics
 * Short track speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics
 * How'd we do? -- Visviva 02:59, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

simplifying layout
can we pare down the categories here, to maybe 4 or 5? "to create", "to translate", "need images", and everything else, under something like "to improve"? if we had a large active group of editors & articles constantly being worked on, it might make sense to triage expand/cleanup/review, but at this point, all these articles need any type of editing they can get, & it would improve the aesthetics & user-friendliness of this list & the portal, imho. Appleby 00:42, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Sounds good to me. -- Visviva 00:53, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Strange edits by User:Hardyandtiny
The above user has visited the Itaewon page and changed some of the text there, essentially: "military personnel from Yongsan garrison and the UN base as well as civilian visitors from the wider world" to "foreigners" and "English-speaking cutie peeking out of a doorway" to "prostitute" (diff:)

I reverted the initial change as I felt it took some of the life out of an article about a vibrant, diverse part of Seoul. I also left a note on the users talk page (along with a welcome message, this is a brand new user) but the change was remade almost instantly. I'd be interested to hear everyone - especially Hardyandtiny's - views on these changes, I personally think the original sounded better and is a great description of what goes on in Itaewon. The changes strike me as somewhat sanitary and that's not, imo, supposed to get in the way of good prose in WP articles.

Significant and imo often misleading, or just wrong changes have also been made to Juicy girl (diff:) and Yongsan Garrison (diff:). If indeed this is a new user then hopefully they will be able to understand why their edits might not be appropriate, I would love to see other Korea-minded editors generate a consensus on what to do here.  Dei zio  01:28, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

East Sea
there's a long-festering issue & pet peeve with the East Sea page. the primary, if not the only, meaning of "East Sea" in english is as an alternate name for the Sea of Japan. major english dictionaries & encyclopedias effectively "redirect" readers to their "Sea of Japan" entries. in contrast, in wikipedia, searching for "East Sea" does not redirect you to the primary english meaning, but a disambiguation page that incorrectly identifies "East Sea" as merely a foreign term translation, even though its meaning as the Sea of Japan is found in major english reference works. please see User:Appleby/Sea for details & linked citations.

this issue has gone through ad nauseum debate & even to mediation, but nothing's come of it, due to a handful of editors determined to make this some type of nationalistic game, instead of simply relying on independent references. please help apply the wikipedia policies (majority view determined by widely accepted reference works, cannot be overridden by consensus of wikipedians). the party's mainly at Talk:Sea of Japan, but the work needs to be done at East Sea and East Sea (disambiguation). thanks.

this is not about nationalism, the "sea of japan" article is not going to be retitled "east sea." but at the "east sea" entry, wikipedia needs to enforce its own non-negotiable policy of reflecting the content of major reference works.Appleby 23:45, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

== POV I found that the article Sea of Japan has "Sea of Japan (East Sea)" whenever it refers to that sea. Doesn't it sorta imply that "Sea of Japan" is the official name of the sea and "East Sea" is just some name made up by Koreans? I suggest that you make it into "East Sea/Sea of Japan" or "Sea of Japan/East Sea" (w/ slash instead of parentheses), which sounds lot more NPOV. Frosty 22:01, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Military ranks and romanization
I noticed that the article Comparative military ranks of Korea had the romanizations completely backwards or sometimes just wrong. North Korean ranks were all in Revised Romanization, South Korean ranks were all in McCune-Reischauer with the diacritics left off, and "j" and "ch" were used interchangeably in both.

I corrected that article, but it's opened a Pandora's box of incorrect romanizations in the articles it links to. The worst example: Taejang describes the South Korean rank 대장 (4-Star General), and Daejang describes its North Korean equivalent! AKADriver 16:20, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Saemangum Seawall
Hey everyone

I just created a short article on the Saemangum Seawall, which is now the longest dyke in the world. It doesn't really link to anything at the moment so if someone wants to work on it some more, that would be great. Cheers. --Roisterer 13:56, 25 April 2006 (UTC)


 * BTW, there is an article de:Wattenmeer Saemangeum (“새만금 wadden sea”) at the German WP. Is 새만금 a term without any Sino-Korean elements? Is 만 灣, by any chance? If it is not Sino-Korean, what does the name mean? Wikipeditor 21:15, 2 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, it's 만 灣, which is "Sea Bay" character. --Dooly0000013:02, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

The North Korean famine
I was rather surprised no one started the article earlier. Anyway, I started it and thought I'd have you take a look at it. What do you think? What would you like to add and improve there?

Anyway, on the template, there was a "Tasks you can help with" dropdown and there's where I saw that "North Korean famine" wasn't created yet. --Shultz IV 00:27, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

It's a decent enough start, but could use a more neutral (less sarcastic/facetious) tone. Also, statements such as "(Kim Il-Sung) realized that the only way he would save the country is through Reunification" really, really, really need to be backed up with some sort of source. (Actually, I would say that the above statement is unsupportable in a fairly absolute way, but won't, since there's always the possibility that you have access to some paper (personal or otherwise) where Kim Il-Sung recognized the need for unification with South Korea in order to save his country.) --Zonath 02:43, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Supreme Court of Korea
I started an article on the Supreme Court of (South) Korea, and would like maybe a few collaborators, if possible. Cheers. --Zonath 04:04, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Note: To find this very nice article, go to Supreme Court of South Korea. -- Visviva 04:04, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

North/South company stub sorting
I proposed to add separate North Korea and South Korea company stubs, since the current Korea company stub category is getting pretty big, the North Korean companies are fascinating, the two economies are completely separate, and until recently, the old stub template had a South Korean flag on it. Add your input to the proposal here. &mdash; AKADriver &#x260E;  19:03, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Retranslation Requests

 * Silla should not be spelled this way. It should read Shin-La or something of those lines. Dooly00000
 * I'd have to disagree. Both the McCune-Reischauer and Revised romanizations indicate that ㄴㄹ is properly rendered (in most cases) by "ll." Also, Shin-La would not accurately represent the Korean pronunciation of the word.  Of course, neither does "Silla," but at least it follows our naming conventions.  -- Visviva 03:57, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
 * If it follows the rule, I won't bother argue. It just sort of annoyed me, because this seemed extremely mistranslated or mispronunced. -- Dooly00000 08:38, 29 April 2006 (EST)
 * All romanization systems for Korean language allow for euphonic changes between phonemes. Thus, Silla is Silla according to the system adopted in July 2000. There are no romanization systems that allow for such spellings as Sin-ra, Sin-la, Shin-la, etc. Let's all learn and use proper romanization for Korean ^^. Mumun 00:22, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Some systems do allow similar spellings. The most recent would be RR's provisions for transliteration. A better known example would be Yale. Wikipeditor 10:32, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

thanks visviva
just wanted to say thanks to visviva for the hard work in general, and the royal infobox in particular. that was an awful mess for a long time.

on a related note, another call, for anyone interested, for comments on proposed updates at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Korean) Appleby 16:46, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

stuff
Hey all: Thanks for doing so much work for this site.

If anyone could write the inscription in Chinese and they can either use Mr. Hong's or Mr. Seeley's  book for the Chiljido Also, there was a red link for Chiljido so I dove right in but what do you think about changing it to something else? And I found an image here:. Does anyone know if we can use it? Thanks!

Also hangul, hanja, romanization boxes for Emille Bell and Wongaksajisipcheungseoktap and Seokgatap would be appreciated. Thanks. Tortfeasor 05:19, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Lies to the people
If there are any North Korean users out there I would very much like to hear your opinion of the following matter: The only media sources in North Korea are Television and Radio completely controlled by the government. For years North Korea was one of the top two countries in famine rate, and refused any aid from western organisations until not long ago. The people were told that the entire world is in famine and that their situation is far better than other countries in the world while all the money of the government was spent on military. The people have no contact whatsoever with the outside world and tourism is banned. This information is of 2001. Is it correct? Have things changed since?

In answer to the above...

Ive been to DPRK as a tourist, so thats certainly not banned. As for contact with the outside world, I was able to mix pretty freely with the Koreans I met there. I believe North Koreans need permits to travel around, but I did see quite a few in Beijing wearing their Kim Il-Sung badges. Not sure about the famine, but the people of Pyongyang, Kaesong and Wonsan looked healthy enough. I'm not sure whether they believed the rest of the world was also in famine. They refer to their period of famine as "The Arduous March" and blame it on US hostile foreign policy. My trip there certainly opened my eyes to the fact that most of what we read and hear about DPRK in the western media is often completely distorted and downright misleading. The residents of Pyongyang, on the whole, seemed more content and at ease than the citizens of say London or New York. I'm not entirely sure of the reason, but I would put it down to the fact that nobody has to worry about paying the rent (housing is provided by the state) and nobody has to worry about how they will pay for all the overpriced fashion and electrical goods which are so cynically advertised to them and their children in the west. Just my view, be nice to read some others. Cheers.

POV
I found that the article "Sea of Japan always refers to the sea as "Sea of Japan (East Sea)". Doesn't it imply that the name "Sea of Japan" is the official name and "East Sea" is only parenthetical? I suggest that you change it into "East Sea/Sea of Japan" or "Sea of Japan/East Sea", (with slash instead of parentheses) which sounds much more NPOV. Frosty 22:06, 6 May 2006 (UTC)


 * This has been repeatedly brought up and discussed ad nauseum, and I believe the general consensus is that the current pattern is as good a compromise on the issue as we're likely to find. Although it might not be perfectly neutral, it's close enough for a substantial number of people. --Zonath 05:54, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Spheres
Could someone more familiar with the subject please take a look at Spheres (anime) - I can't figure out what half the listed production jobs are supposed to be and the initial paragraph has been jumbled so badly I have no idea what it nis trying to say. Shiroi Hane 13:39, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Multinational force in Iraq
Can someone look at the Multinational force in Iraq article? There you will find a suggestion that because the Korean army still uses conscription it might send soldiers to Iraq against their will. Can someone deny this? Mieciu K 11:05, 19 May 2006 (UTC)


 * There is still mandatory military service in Korea, so all males spend a couple years in one of the branches of the armed forces (usually the army). Strictly speaking, this service can in many cases be unwilling.  Even so, I'm not entirely sure which soldiers they have in Iraq now.  It seems a bit unlikely that they'd be sending conscripts over there, since there are volunteer units available.  Although I spent a bit of time looking, I couldn't find any source pointing one way or the other on this -- there certainly isn't any source listed in the article itself.  --Zonath 15:54, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
 * If you speak (and read) korean take a look at the website of the korean ministry of defence, maybe there you will find some specyfic info. From Poland at least theoreticly only proffessional soldiers or soldiers on contracts go to Ira, what attracts volunteers there is a much higher wage than they would get in Poland. Probably it is simmilar in Korea. Mieciu K 16:09, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
 * It is similar for the Korean division in Iraq as well. Regularly conscripted soldiers don't go to Iraq; they serve in Korea. The Zaytun division is composed of volunteers (prof. soldiers) who receive MUCH higher wage (seeing as how every adult male Korean citizens are required to serve in the army). Deiaemeth 08:03, 21 May 2006 (UTC)


 * All the military personnel in the Zaytun division are volunteers. However, some of the enlisted soldiers volunteered, too, so below Byongjang they are all volunteered, but enlisted soldiers. Actually applying for the Zaytun was so popular, so the number of applicants was much higher than the planned number (3000). Main reason for volunteer was, of course, high salary. In addtion, new experience was the main motivation for enlisted soldiers and higher chance for promotion after their tour of duty for career soldiers. Ginnre 19:36, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Weapons of Korea
Hey all: I came across an article about an ancient Korean artillery piece:. The article is pretty sparse on the details and it doesn't even mention a specific name for the weapon, but if anyone actually knows about this weapon I think it would make for a great article in the Weapons of Korea category. Thanks. Tortfeasor 22:45, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I haven't read it, but perhaps it is about the 화차 or the 신기전. Wikipeditor 02:43, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I thought it might be. Although, the picture on the link  doesn't look like the Hwacha or Singijeon.  Thanks for the response, W.  Tortfeasor 02:47, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
 * This looks like a Korean variant of the Fire Arrow, and would have been created around the right time for that. A pity we don't have a name for it -- on the other hand, maybe we can create a History of Korean military technology article and add this along with general information on various other guns and ships and whatnot.  By the way, here is the Korean-language version of the story -- not much more information there.  -- Visviva 08:03, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

no references on Hangul
such an important article has no references.--Dangerous-Boy 19:01, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

more images
i found some more potentially usable images on flickr. anyone wanna upload to the commons, or at least provide specific identifying info? Appleby 22:45, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) http://www.flickr.com/photos/rabble/122253232/ -> Image:Seoul Gyeongbokgung Blue House Bukhansan.jpg
 * 2) http://www.flickr.com/photos/pravin8/35475430/ -> Image:Seoul Station front entrance.jpg
 * 3) http://www.flickr.com/photos/pravin8/35484484/
 * 4) http://www.flickr.com/photos/rabble/130818317/ -> Image:Noodle drying rack.jpg
 * 5) http://www.flickr.com/photos/edvvc/54811615/
 * 6) http://www.flickr.com/photos/neaners/15140312/ -> Image:Pagoda outside of the Gyeonghuigung, Seoul.jpg
 * 7) http://www.flickr.com/photos/pravin8/35484439/ -> Image:Bangasayusang.jpg (added Appleby 18:45, 3 June 2006 (UTC))
 * 8) http://www.flickr.com/photos/framore/80930328/ -> Image:Guard statue in a Korean temple.jpg
 * 9) http://www.flickr.com/photos/dnk/104223617/ -> Image:Buddha statues in a temple on Jejudo.jpg
 * 10) http://www.flickr.com/photos/pravin8/35481995/ -> Image:Lotus latern festival 2001.jpg
 * 11) http://www.flickr.com/photos/zoomzoom/146914143/ -> Image:Coloured laterns at the Lotus Lantern Festival.jpg


 * I uploaded some of the pictures. I don't know, what the others display, so I can't think of a good name or description. -- iGEL (talk) 08:52, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

thank you very much, igel, i knew you'd come through :-). i started using the images (please help!), but just wondering: thanks. Appleby 16:56, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
 * is the mountain in the background of #1 Bukhansan? hard to believe we don't have an article for bukhansan yet.
 * i think #3 could be used for Korean pottery. looks like an Insadong boutique?
 * can anyone id #5, or at least describe it enough for use in East Asian calligraphy?
 * is #6 the Wongaksa Pagoda?
 * can anyone id #7? it doesn't seem to be Geumdong Mireuk Bosal Bangasang.
 * which of the Four Heavenly Kings is #8?


 * 6 isn't Wongaksa but I'm sure I've seen it. (I can make an article once I figure it out).  #7 is Bangasayusang and since the image I posted on the article is there via "fair use" I think this image would be better to use.  Can anyone help me out?  Do I need to delete the old image first?  Tortfeasor 21:17, 23 May 2006 (UTC)  p.s.  I searched cultural heritage and used "seven" and "pagoda" (I think the pagoda in the picture has seven stories) and this is the closest thing that looked like it could be the same with picture #6:  seven%20storied)&requery=, although, the base stones don't match.  Tortfeasor 23:41, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
 * they are definitely two different pagodas, but i'm having a hard time id'ing the flickr photo. they look very similar except for the base, perhaps a pair of pagodas at the same site? also, can anyone photoshop the buddha statue photo, for lighting & color? Appleby 00:48, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Images
Hey all: I had a couple of questions. Can I use these pictures if they are uploaded to Commons? I only copied links to pictures that said "some rights reserved" instead of the lame "all rights reserved" which I am assuming I couldn't use. Also, it usually says I have to "attribute" and I'm not sure what that means. Thanks for any help. Tortfeasor 05:47, 8 June 2006 (UTC)


 * 1) http://www.flickr.com/photos/pravin8/35484448/in/set-785120/
 * 2) http://www.flickr.com/photos/xoxoryan/145804168/in/pool-korea/
 * 3) http://www.flickr.com/photos/comingupforair/153317091/in/pool-korea/
 * 4) http://www.flickr.com/photos/d200shootr/141792444/in/pool-korea/
 * 5) http://www.flickr.com/photos/bweisner/132866053/in/pool-korea/
 * 6) http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarahkim/81295400/in/pool-korea/
 * 7) http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarahkim/81295401/in/pool-korea/
 * 8) http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarahkim/81289627/in/pool-korea/
 * 9) http://www.flickr.com/photos/mike_55/1222511/in/pool-korea/

i really wish there was one simple step-by-step guide to finding & uploading proper images (maybe there is, but i haven't found it). here's what i found from stumbling around: if you mention & link your new image here, & i can try to help link it from relevant articles. i got many of these tips from user igel above. thanks! Appleby 16:58, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
 * for usable flickr images, go to http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ and click on the first or last category. only these (attribution or attribution-share-alike) are acceptable licenses. we cannot use any image license that limits commercial or derivative use.
 * if you found a flickr image another way (if you clicked on above links by tortfeasor), click on the icon at the right where it says "some rights reserved", it will show you what specific license it is.
 * if it has a usable license, click on "see different sizes" to get the highest resolution image.
 * upload to the Commons after registering there.
 * while uploading, be sure to specify the original photographer (flickr user name) and the license (you may have to manually specify version if not in the drop-down list).

tortfeasor, it looks like the first three images are kosher, but not the rest ... Appleby 17:25, 8 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Are you serious?!? Those are the ones I least wanted to use...  Thanks for your help Appleby.  Tortfeasor 17:49, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

yeah, it's not easy. if you really wanted, you could ask the flickr user to change the license. the third image is pretty cool, though. Appleby 17:56, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

hey this guy has a pretty nice gallery of usable pics from the war memorial here Appleby 18:22, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Chiljido
Hey all: Thanks for doing so much work for this site. I'm not an expert or anything so if anyone is interested, could they check on this article I wrote on the Chiljido. Primarily if anyone could write the inscription in Chinese and they can either use Mr. Hong's or Mr. Seeley's  book. Secondly, any relevant links or information or advice would be great. Thirdly, I'm guessing a box with the hangul, hanja, etc. is needed. Sorry but I'm a dunce with the languages. Oh, and finally the title. There was a red link for Chiljido so I dove right in but what do you think about changing it to something else? And I found an image here:. Does anyone know if we can use it? Thanks! Tortfeasor 02:38, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

This article is amazing. I added onto it a little.(Wikimachine 03:46, 26 May 2006 (UTC))

Comments on etymology
Hi, I noticed that Seolleongtang and Bindaetteok mention etymologies that are virtually unknown/unsupported in Korea. Can someone help? --KJ 18:18, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
 * W. Sasse says seolleongtang has been from a Mongolian word seleng (sp?) “soup” + Sino-Korean 湯 “soup”. I don't get any Google hits supporting that. Perhaps seleng is an extinct word? Does anybody know some Old Mongolian? Wikipeditor 10:23, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Talk about the Anti-American factions in South Korea
I think this could do interesting addition, to show what they believe and what they don't. Sadly, they believe in Communism, which has no Freedom of Speech. --Dooly00000 13:05 24 June, 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, it's true that there are certain amount of organized South Koreans who are Anti-American factions. Their belief is more in Juche ideology, rather than in communism. See Hanchongryun, one of the main faction. Ginnre 19:42, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Syol Chong
does anyone know more about about Syol Chong? must be a misspelled romanization. only mentions found in google are apparently from one individual's pretty sketchy speculation. maybe if someone knows the actual korean name, i can search more, but otherwise, seems it's really a candidate for deletion. Appleby 18:32, 27 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Never heard of him. Gari Ledyard, who knows a thing or two about hangul, says that it should be attributed to King Sejong alone, if I remeber this article correctly .  (It's a pdf).  Tortfeasor 19:08, 27 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Probably a misspelled, mistaken article on Seol Chong. Redirected. --Kjoonlee 03:57, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Vote: Tsushima Basin or Ulleung Basin
Hi all. On Talk:Tsushima Basin there is currently a vote about the name of the Tsushima Basin/Ulleung Basin. The vote runs till 08:57, 19 June 2006, voters need 100 edits and 1 month at Wikipedia in order to vote. -- Chris 73 | Talk 07:01, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Vote closed, Tsushima basin is the primary name to be used on Wikipedia when referring to the ocean feature, with alternative names in brackets. -- Chris 73 | Talk 09:02, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
 * the result of the poll was inconclusive, with neither name getting the 60% consensus (WP:RM) at this time. previous to this dispute, the basin was labeled "ulleung basin (tsushima basin)" since november 2005. Appleby 06:59, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Bae Yong Joon crisis
There has been a scam by newly registered users and annoyomous user ids removing certain data on this article. Such behaviour can be reflected on NPOV and Vandalism. To prove my point, please check the article's history and ask for semi-protection if possible.

There is general personal data on most featuring personalities in wikipedia. I don't see why even general personal data is removed, without cause. I have posted messages to ask for reasons a few months back when the first wave of such crisis occured. Help is greatly appreciated, and please notify me if anyone wishes to do so. Thanks. Mr Tan 17:27, 18 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Whats happening, are Japanese users jealous of popular Korean culture again? Or are they angry and messed up the article like what happened to the Dokdo article. Good friend100 16:45, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Hahm Sokhyun
I haven't been able to find an article on Hahm Sokhyun, the philospher and activist who was imprisoned by every administration from the Japanese occupation through Kim Jongpil. What'll happen next is you all will suggest I write it, eh? --Dan 00:44, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
 * No, I would suggest that you look at Ham Seok-heon, and improve it as you see fit. :-) -- Visviva 16:08, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Imjin war
Hey guys, good job on the Jang Yeongsil. I understand that the featured articles need some reediting. But I am too occupied on the Imjin War article and I need help on that too.

I really need help on reorganizing the structure of the article itself because writing the entire "Second Invasion" section made the structure not clear. Also, I have an extremely incomplete section on the timeline. I need help on making it look better. Thanks guys. Good friend100 17:12, 23 June 2006 (UTC)


 * The Imjin War title is already established. Good friend100 16:42, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Poll on deleting/leaving "depiction in media" in Turtle Ship
I would like to see many people vote on it to get the general consensus of the Wikipedian community.

talk:Turtle ship (Wikimachine 21:11, 25 June 2006 (UTC))

Help on image copyright
I uploaded & it was from filesharing site so I couldn't confirm its copyright status. It's for Ahn Ikte. Does anybody know its copyright status or have replacement? thx (Wikimachine 04:26, 1 July 2006 (UTC))

Military History task force
I am trying to establish a "Far East task force" sub-section of the Military history WikiProject. If you're already working on military history articles, then all you need to do is offer your support and add your name to a list of task force members. You're already doing the task force's work; we don't ask much more than that. The link to my task force proposal is here: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Military_history. Thank you. LordAmeth 15:57, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

hanja in infobox
i got this message from User:StoM for help on displaying hanja properly in an infobox template. i just don't know enough to help him out, although i tried to copy/paste a section from the example he wanted to follow (if i understood correctly). anyways, this is just beyond me, & would appreciate it if anyone could help him out. Appleby 19:01, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

request from User:StoM
안녕하십니까? 제가 폴란드사람이기 때문에 한국어를 조끔 합니다. 그래서 이 言語 문제에 대해서 영어로 설명할 것입니다.

My knowledge about editing is very poor. I hope that you will be able to help me with this matter. To help you understand what I mean here is a link to a page where the Hanja is shown correctly in: Pyongan and Hanja in the Template.

Would you please make it showing in the same way in: Template:Korean_subway.

이 문제는 해결하고 나서 저를 알려주십시오!

도와주셔서 감사합니다!

스토츠코스키 미하우 올림

Appleby님 안녕하십니까? 도와주셔서 고맙습니다. 제가 분류를 확인하러 저기 Seoul_Subway_Line_1 갔습니다. 저기에 記號로 입력했떤 한자가 《&#49436;&#50872;&#22320;&#19979;&#37941;(&#31532;)&#19968;&#34399;&#32218;》 變換하기 후에 있어도 화면에 나오지 않습니다.

苦生이 많아서 罪悚합니다!

追伸: 당신의 찍는 사진과 韓國通貨 그림이 정말 잘 만든 것입니다!!!

이 문제는 해결하고 나서 저를 알려주십시오.

스토츠코스키 미하우 올림


 * nevermind, problem solved. Appleby 22:29, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Images
I found a very nice site with over a thousand images from Korea. . The photographers, on their site, state "any and all images can be used freely and without permission. The only request is that credit be given to NW-Photos.com." Tortfeasor 19:24, 9 July 2006 (UTC)


 * holy cow, that's a nice little jackpot! not all of them are exactly feature quality, but there are a lot of nice usable images. i will help with uploading soon. Appleby 18:07, 11 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Yeah, it's pretty cool. I uploaded a bunch on to commons here:  .  Tortfeasor 18:14, 11 July 2006 (UTC)


 * If anyone wants to drop their two cents in I would appreciate it. I found a free pic of a Crown of Silla:.  The main pic at the article, as of now, is .  Obviously the second pic is a lot more impressive.  Unfortunately, it's only a fair use pic.  So, should we keep the flashier picture or go with the more legal one?  Thanks.  Tortfeasor 05:21, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

they actually look like 2 different crowns, why not use both for now? the free image is not too bad.

btw, please nominate some images & articles at the portal. the hwaseomun fortress image is awesome. Appleby 05:30, 14 July 2006 (UTC)


 * If I don't figure out how to nominate at the portal, I would suggest the Crown of Silla article. That fortress picture is money.  I got it at flickr, a very nice user, d'n'c, is taking a trip through Korea I think and he took more

. Tortfeasor 06:41, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

On flickr, a user by the name of draq, is taking a lot of pictures of Korea. He has recently been to the War Memorial and taken a lot of good pictures. . If anyone needs images of weapons from Korea please make sure to credit draq's website and let him now via flickr to say thanks if you upload any images. Tortfeasor 18:51, 15 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi everyone. It seems like a lot of pictures had licensing problems and were removed.  I've uploaded a lot of pictures from flickr to Commons and most of them are here,, so please use them to illustrate Korean articles if the pictures are relevant.  Thanks.  Tortfeasor 04:55, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

New participant
Hello everyone! I am not sure I went about this the right way, but count me in! --Merkurix 15:51, 12 July 2006 (UTC)


 * welcome! just jump right in :-) if you haven't yet, please check out the Portal:Korea, and outstanding requests for help at Korea-related topics notice board/to do. this list is also at the bottom of the portal, and most easily accessible from the talk pages of most korea-related articles; go to the template rectangle at the top of the talk page, and click on [show] at the lower right of the rectangle. many many articles need citations/references, images, or just any kind of attention they can get. thanks! Appleby 16:52, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Standard naming scheme
Please see the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Regional notice boards. Zocky | picture popups 00:52, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Old Hangul
Hi, the Hunmin Jeongeum article now has the Hunmin Jeongeum in Old Hangul. It's visible with Firefox and ttf-unfonts. I tagged it with because the text wasn't shown correctly in MSIE.

Maybe we need a better template, or better help instructions, because meta:Help:Special characters doesn't mention anything about Old Hangul. --Kjoonlee 06:15, 14 July 2006 (UTC)


 * hmm i'm not seeing the characters (i see ?), i'm using win xp & firefox. Appleby 21:05, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Oops, it turns out I was mistaken. I thought the Old Hangul was in "combined jamo" mode, but it turns out it was in an unofficial encoding using Unicode's "Private Use Area" codes. It will be invisible to someone who's not using proprietary fonts such as Haansoft Batang. I'll try to make an SVG image. --Kjoonlee 06:36, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Just in case there's more free stuff
Hi - I just noticed today the posting on the site with the photos free of use, which was some great news. A friend and I were thinking of setting out around the country a bit to take photos of most everything but since there's over 1000 of them there we can start with those and then later on go to places that haven't been covered yet. I'm one of the two sysops and bureaucrats of the Galbijim wiki, which is kind of like the Wookiepedia of Korean-related content, except that (besides being smaller) there's also quite a bit of copyright-free material such as books from the Gutenberg project on Korea, as well as explanations on Korean words that we hope will eventually turn into a pretty good dictionary.

I was wondering if anyone knows of any more copyright-free Korean related material though. So far I've put up all the books on the Gutenberg project, all the English-language and a few of the Korean-language official documents from Wikisource, and all the supreme court decisions on their website. Civil law, copyright law, and a few other legal documents too. Anybody know of any other good locations with copyright-free Korean material? Mithridates 16:03, 14 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Mithridates: Don't let those photos of the free stuff discourage your planned trip cross-country ;)  We could definitely use a lot more photos, espcially from museums and artifacts from museums and the non-Seoul temples and ruins and pagodas and statues.  I came across this the other night while doing some research.  .  It has scans of the Hwaseong Fortress white paper.  Is it { { pd-art} }?  It is definitely old anyways.   has a bunch of old photos too, but I'm not sure what the copy right laws are exactly.  The VANK website has a lot of pictures but they never e-mailed me back about what their copy right was.  I hope that helps, let me know if I can help with anything else.  Tortfeasor 17:20, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! Actually I've always thought about trying to find some way to both take pictures as well as get more media attention to the Korean Wikipedia. Koreans are great when they finally decide they like something but until they do it's really hard to get noticed. Most will use something like 지식인 on Naver instead of Wikipedia. Actually that reminds me, we should get the Korean Wikipedia set up like Naver so that it accepts typing in English as Korean, because even if you don't have Korean on your computer you can go to Naver and type rnrwpwjsghk for example which is what you type on a keyboard in Korean to get 국제전화 but Naver will recognize it as Korean because it's obviously not English. It's good for Koreans abroad who are using a friend's computer for example. A bit off-topic, but I wonder who I could talk to to make that change? Mithridates 13:03, 16 July 2006 (UTC)


 * M: Sorry, I have no idea about that but let me know if I can help you with anything else.  Let me know if you post some pictures :)  Tortfeasor 04:53, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Samcheongpo
Hi! Is this article a fake? I can't find any informations about this city. For example, look at this map, you won't find it there. Or try a Google search. The article history says, the author found it on Google Earth, but I'm quite sure there is no 삼청포시. -- iGEL (talk)
 * From what I can tell this place is a port in the city of Sacheon but it's certainly not a city. There are some places like a Samcheongpo community centre, bridge, that sort of thing. I'm still not sure exactly what it is but it's no city. Mithridates 12:59, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm quite sure it's a typo of Samcheonpo. It's nonexistant now because it was merged with Sacheon in 1995. Redirected. --Kjoonlee 13:13, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
 * You are correct, Kjoon, the name is Samcheonpo, but it does exist. In an official sort of way, it was amalgamated with Sacheon-si and is not an independent city. However, the area that comprises what most local people think of as Sacheon-si is the built up area (kr: 사천읍내) located at the top of Sacheon-man Bay. This area contains a market and the Jinju Airport. Samcheonpo, on the other hand, is a completely different urban area located at the bottom of Sacheon-man Bay, approximately 15 km south of Sacheon. Samcheonpo is a busier place than Sacheon proper, has an active local port, and is a main gateway to many offlying islands. Nobody in the local area, or Western Gyeongnam for that matter, refer to Samcheonpo as being Sacheon. Mumun 00:12, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Maybe, but articles (and templates) at Wikipedia were treating it as Samcheonpo-si, which was why I used that wording. --Kjoonlee 00:16, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

South Korea template
Someone changed the template with the edit summary "country footer consistency"; is that a good change? In particular, the edit has reversed the order in which the names are listed. -- KittySaturn 12:37, 21 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I have gone back to the previous layouts for the South Korea and North Korea templates. -- KittySaturn 05:13, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Korean language North-South differences
Hello people, I am trying to translate the Japanese article ja:朝鮮語の南北間差異 into English. Please help if you can! In particular I am having quite some trouble making the translations of names sound natural. And what about the name of the English article? It seems that any natural-sounding way I can think of for the article title makes it about twice as long (like, "Differences in the Korean language (as) used in North and South Korea"???) -- KittySaturn 19:33, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Hello again, somehow I managed to translate the whole thing, but there are HEAPS of pretty rough translations, including many I borrowed from the corresponding linguistic term as applied to Japanese, like "attributive form" - no idea what 連体形 is called in English (it's like the forms e.g. 먹은, 먹는, 먹을, 먹던... etc. for 먹다), since I have only learnt Korean in Japanese... So please help polish it! Thank you (^_^)_V (And thanks Wikipeditor for linking to it from the Korean language article about 15 seconds before I was going to myself, hehe) -- KittySaturn 22:19, 21 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Attributive, perhaps? Wikipeditor 00:49, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

South Korean law
An article on South Korean law has been created, and could use a few more collaborators, if this touches on anyone's particular area of expertise or interest. --Zonath 00:54, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Korean name
Korean name is up for a featured article review. Detailed concerns may be found here. Please leave your comments and help us address and maintain this article's featured quality. Sandy 03:26, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Galbijim Wiki page up for deletion
Just thought I would let everybody know. Please vote or write your comments here. Mithridates 11:00, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Portal feature article
if anyone else is interested, it would be nice to get more participation Portal talk:Korea with the next featured article at Portal:Korea. i don't know how much traffic the portal actually gets, but this is a good opportunity to improve the quality of some deserving articles. also need help with a biography for the portal. Appleby 07:36, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Personally I'd like to see a Korean article go on the main page again, maybe either on Jeju-do or the 돌하루방 (those weird statues on the island). Jeju just became autonomous/self-governing and it would be nice to see the place get more attention from the rest of the world. Another interesting article could be on the Tamna language (탐라어) that used to exist there, but that wouldn't be that easy to write on because even in Korea knowledge of it is scarce as it went extinct some time ago. I'm pretty busy but I think with maybe about ten or so people and a fixed subject we could each put in five minutes a day on the article and get something good happening in a few weeks (because there's no rush). Any thoughts? Mithridates 11:48, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, and sorry my message wasn't really related to the portal. It just got a few ideas going and I went off on a tangent. Mithridates 11:49, 25 July 2006 (UTC)


 * that's exactly the idea, if we have enough people participate in cleaning up articles for the Korean portal, we can improve them further for the main page featured article. although it's nice to see increasing numbers of Korea-related article editors, it's not easy getting them together for a project. Appleby 20:13, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Gojoseon, Three Gojoseon, Balhae, Joseon, Gando
User:Breathejustice has been very active lately, adding or removing material in various Korea-related historical articles. However, some of his edits have been questionable, in that he repeatedly tries to:

1) Insert material, sometimes historically inaccurate, from a Korean nationalist POV (e.g. to Gando, Jizi, Manchuria) 2) Write articles and upload maps about pre-historic states, locations and people, but failing to frame them as being pre-historic / mythical / legendary in nature (e.g. Three Gojoseon, Baedalguk, Asadal etc.) 3) Remove material that he disagrees with, with little justification (e.g. from History of Korea, Gojoseon, Balhae) 4) Being generally reluctant to discuss his edits in talk pages.

It would be great if someone well-versed could take a look at his contributions and check them for accuracy. The above user also makes use of several anonymous IP's.

Thanks in advance.

-- ran (talk) 18:17, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Japan, History of Japan
There is a continuing problem with User:Kamosuke and User:Mythologia making biased edits, deleting or minimizing any mentions of Korea in various articles. Experience has shown that this group of editors cannot carry on a reasonable discussion, and not only because of their limited English skills. Please help keep track of the continuing revert warring by these and related accounts. Dollarfifty 00:50, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Help with names
Hi all: There are two paintings with articles now. The Cultural Heritage site lists their names as Geumgangjeondo and Inwangjesaekdo, of course with no spaces, so that probably has to be corrected one day. The Hoam Art Museum gives the paintings names in their English translation. Should it change to Geumgang Jeondo and Inwang Jesaekdo (whichever way is the correct area to hit the space bar) or should the name be their English translation i.e. The Diamond Mountains and After the Rain at Mt. Inwang.

On a tangent, typing "diamond mountain" lists to a Buddhist temple? instead of Geumgangsan so I don't know what should happen their exactly. Tortfeasor 06:03, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Help with translations
I'm currently working on a script intended to create short articles on political parties on a variety of wikipedias simultaneously. However, in order for the technique to work I need help with translations to various languages. If you know any of the languages listed at User:Soman/Lang-Help, then please help by filling in the blanks. For example I need help with Korean. Thanks, --Soman 12:14, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Poll at Talk:Sea of Japan
There is a straw poll on the proposed wording, for Sea of Japan's "Naming" section. Poll ends Aug. 14, 2006, or one week from last vote if that comes sooner. See Talk:Sea of Japan.--Endroit 21:00, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Stretching is one way to develop flexibility?
It was the caption under the picture and sounded ridiculous. You gain flexibility by stretching, nothing else. Sorry I just had to change it, it made the page look like it was typed up by an idiot.

Article ratings
Hi everybody,

Anybody who hangs around in the Korea-related topics knows the kind of quality control issues that we face here. In view of Jimbo's recent call for an increased focus on article quality, I figured we could join in what other Wikifolk have been doing. I've stashed a simple assessment scale at Korea-related topics notice board/Assessment. This is based on the scale at WikiProject Chemicals/Assessment, which has been successful ly adopted elsewhere. I've also added a rating field to Template:Korean. For example, to rate an article as "Start," you go to the talk page and replace with. This adds a line at the bottom of the template:

Improvements in the layout are welcome. Some article talk pages already have a message template with an article rating; in that case there is no need to add a second rating.

Currently there are no limitations on the words that can go into the rating field. If this proves to be an invitation to vandalism, the code can be rewritten so that only the approved choices can be displayed.

Of course, this is just the beginning -- after the articles are tagged, we need to work on moving them up the scale. See ya in the trenches! -- Visviva 23:15, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Lotte
The portal site says that Lotte Group needs a page, but Lotte already exists.... SKS2K6 07:28, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

황순현
is currently ed. Could someone take a look whether there's anything useful? Pavel Vozenilek 16:58, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Koryo-saram
I've created the above article, regarding ethnic Koreans in the former Soviet Union. There's a lot there already, but I will appreciate the review and improvements of more Korea-knowledgeable folks like you all. Please also see the existing discussions on Talk:Koryo-saram. Thanks! cab 09:42, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

new category/template for Korea-related articles missing hanja
I have created Chinese script, a cleanup category for articles about topics written in Chinese characters but missing that from the article (either in the text or in a template). It is based on Arabic and Cyrillic. All of the articles needing this are gathered in Category:Articles needing Chinese script. The template is designed to be able to be used for people with no knowledge of any Chinese script, and then people with a good understanding can clear the articles out of the category. I'm not sure if I should create a separate, more specifically Korean one that would be more appropriate to words generally written only in hangul. I think many people tagging with the template would not know much about Korean writing. Rigadoun (talk) 20:49, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Sometimes I wish there were a similar template to request hangeul for articles or individual paragraphs where an author has written many names in nonstandard transcriptions, thus enabling us to easily make proper transcriptions based on hangeul spelling. Wikipeditor 01:33, 1 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Feel free to make use of Hangul, which I have created from User:Rigadoun's fine model. I don't actually know of any articles that need it currently... -- Visviva 16:05, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Hideyoshi's Invasions of Korea
Please take a look at the discussion board.

JPOV editors have succeeded in changing the title of the article from Imjin War to Hideyoshi's Invasions of Korea.

I know that all of you are offended by this. Please make efforts to resist.

Only Imjin War advocates are user:Good friend100 and me. We are outnumbered 5:2.

At first they said Hideyoshi's Invasions of Korea was more common than Imjin War, which was not true, as shown by Google searches.

Then they advocated Google Book. I disproved them.

Then they said we can't use quotes. I already explained that only quotes can ensure that the search results are titles, not references or phrases.

Then they said they can't trust Google nor Google Book. So contradictory?

They are completely JPOV, and I'm not KPOV, please. Please. (Wikimachine 03:29, 2 September 2006 (UTC))


 * Please don't assume that anyone who disagrees with you is taking a pro-Japanese line. The problems with "Imjin War," and with "Seven Year War," have been spelled out quite clearly in that discussion. -- Visviva 16:07, 2 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Revisit the discussion. After my participation in the discussion, everything has been answered clearly. Now the "Hideyoshi's invasion" advocates are denying or avoiding my arguments. (Wikimachine 02:05, 4 September 2006 (UTC))

List of Korean monarchs
I've requested that List of Rulers of Korea be moved back to its (IMO) proper title List of Korean monarchs. Please join the discussion at Talk:List of Rulers of Korea. Cheers, -- Visviva 17:12, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Image:Korea-arms2.gif
I've tagged this image as having no licence. Could someone provide the information about its copyright status? Conscious 09:01, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
 * If it's indeed from the Joseon Dynasty, then the emblem itself would be public domain; however, if the photograph was taken recently, it would only be usable through fair use. --Kjoonlee 10:24, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Lotte Group
A Lotte page exists, but is the Lotte Group something different? KiteString 17:23, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Gongki
Hi, there's an active AfD for Gongki, which seems like a traditional game in Korea. However, there are no English sources, and the people in AfD can't translate Korean, even though there's a source. Could somebody please help here and translate the contents into the article? ColourBurst 22:58, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

wikiproject korea
is there a wikiproject Korea? And if there isn't one, how do I make one? thank you Good friend100 02:48, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Great job on the WikiProject Korea! I think we need to merge Wikipedia talk:Korea-related topics notice board into the WikiProject Korea, as well as Korean Portal. (Wikimachine 16:10, 21 September 2006 (UTC))


 * Please check WikiProject India and consider starting a Assessment department in Korea WikiProject and help with Version 1.0. I started with WP:IND by copying the template from WikiProject Australia. - Ganeshk  ( talk ) 16:17, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Seven year War, Imjin War, Hideyoshi's, etc etc
Currently there has been debate over what title should be used in the article. Recently, it has been moved to Seven Year Wars because of no consensus over Imjin War or Hideyoshi's Invasions of Korea.

But it was already decided a while ago that Seven Year War variations are not good names because of its confusion with the European war of the same name and also it is vague. Could somebody help sort things out? thank you. Good friend100 03:08, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

List of snakes in Korea Please help
List of snakes in Korea

Korea Independent Commission Against Corruption
Could someone please post the Revised Romanisation for this page and check whether the McCune Reischauer romanisation (which I did) is correct? Thank you! -dandan xD 2:48 pm 16 Sep 2006 AEST

Merge or Hierarchize w/ WikiProject Korea
Should we? Let's have a vote. (Wikimachine 16:15, 21 September 2006 (UTC))

It seems that WikiProjects are places where discussions and collaborations usually take place. The Portal is fine as it is - homepage of related articles. But Korea-related topics notice board shares a lot of nitch with WikiProject Korea & this might hurt the efforts on either side. I personally favor WikiProject Korea because it's WikiProject -more common. I think Korea-related topics notice board is the only topics notice board I've seen in the entire encyclopedia. (Wikimachine 05:06, 27 September 2006 (UTC))
 * You might want to have a look at Regional notice boards.  Quite a few there.  Some use the "X-related topics" format; others call themselves "X notice board" or "XYZian notice board" ... the basic function is the same.  Personally, I prefer "Korea-related topics" since it is a) well-established, and b) does not exclude those of us who are not Korean.  -- Visviva 13:12, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea --> Japanese invasions of Korea
There is a debate going on for the move in the article. Please participate & vote. (Wikimachine 12:51, 5 October 2006 (UTC))

Chinese name or Korean name?
The proper article name needs to be determined, for geographic features on the Chinese - North Korean border. Based on Wikipedia policies such as WP:NC, it appears that the most common name should be used. But there is argument as to which is more popular. --Endroit 17:37, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Chonji or Tianchi? See Talk:Chonji
 * Baekdu Mountain or Changbai Mountain? See Talk:Baekdu Mountain

DYK
The DYK section featured on the main page is always looking for interesting new and recently expanded stubs from different parts of the world. Please make a suggestion.--Peta 02:05, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

addiing to items to be improved etc.
I can't figure out how to add to the lists of articles to be improved. So, I'll list one here: Kim Tschang Yeul.


 * No such article seems to exist -- Kim Tschang Yeul is currently a redlink. To edit the To-do list, go here, or click the "edit" link at the bottom right of the list. Cheers, -- Visviva 07:07, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

editing
Hi, Viv: 1) I did click on the edit tab, but the sections for articles to be improved, etc. did not appear in the edit screen.  2) I don't know why there is no Kim Tschang Yeul article:  Just before I came to this page I had written one. It is now gone, even from my own list of activities! Kdammers 08:59, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) The list is hidden in a subpage, so you have to click the link at the bottom right of the list itself. Tricky, eh?  2)  Not a clue... doesn't show up in the deletion log.  Maybe your edit didn't go through?  -- Visviva 09:18, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm new to wikipedia, but the statistics part of the economy subpage says that it needs cites. It seems to me that most, if not all, of the statistics on that page are lifted directly from the CIA World Factbook.

North Korean mountain -- verification needed.
Hi,

Can anyone verify the existence (and Korean name) of Mount Myolak? I can't find any information on a 묘락산, 묘악산, or 묘낙산 in North Korea. -- Visviva 04:24, 14 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Try 멸악산. --Reuben 21:36, 14 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Yay! Thanks.  -- Visviva 16:15, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Naming questions
Requesting comment on the naming (and usage) of several terms: --Reuben 21:35, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1. Bukhan River - I think it mainly flows through N. Korea, so it probably should be at Pukhan River instead. However, my instinct is to translate a little bit more and move to North Han River.  Thoughts?  Objections? --Reuben 21:35, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 2. Pusan Perimeter - There are some pages linking to Busan Perimeter, which is a redirect. OK to change them to Pusan Perimeter? --Reuben 21:35, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 3. Cheorwon - We use Cheorwon for the location and for most historical contexts, but Chorwon for Korean War articles. I suppose this makes sense because the name entered the English language in that form at the time of the Korean War, like Inchon.  Therefore, I have left the Korean War articles as they are and made redirects.  --Reuben 21:35, 14 October 2006 (UTC)


 * 1. No objections to North Han River, but for the record most of the river (and most its watershed) lie within South Korea.  Only the uppermost reaches of the river are in the North.
 * 2. Seems OK to me; I think we can call that an established English spelling.
 * 3. If the article as a whole uses MR or period romanization, I think that's OK.  Consistency is usually a good thing.  But if the article doesn't follow a consistent pattern, I think we should enforce RR per the manual.  Cheers, -- Visviva 16:19, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

FWIW, N. Korea now has its very own Ch'ŏrwŏn, formerly Anhyŏp. Perhaps there should be some DAB thingy. Wikipeditor 16:30, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the responses. I haven't changed Bukhan River since my initial reason for changing is not correct per Visviva's comment. As for items 2 and 3, I've been trying to make connections between Korean War articles and the geographical locations (either coordinates, or the contemporary Korean places). Since Korean War articles pretty consistently keep to the spellings that were used by the UN forces at the time (also reflected in news reports, etc.), I have been leaving them as they are, and making redirect pages. It sounds like there's no objection, so I'll carry on. --Reuben 18:16, 20 October 2006 (UTC)


 * 1. I just asked my Korean wife about Bukhan River/North Han River. While North Han River is the right translation, it is but a translation, and she doubts that this name is widely used in English. So please keep Bukhan River.
 * 2. Agree with Visviva
 * 3. I think we should generally use MR romanization, and only words from the Korean War which are established in English should be written as they are known. This would mean Chorwon and not Ch'ŏrwŏn. --Defrenrokorit 17:17, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Screenshot of announcement of the nuclear test
On is a discussion whether to delete screenshot of the TV announcer and whether it is valid at all. Pavel Vozenilek 23:51, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Gojoseon
Recent edits made to Gojoseon suggest that Gojoseon covered all of Manchuria as far north as the Amur and Argun rivers and as far inland as the Greater Khingan Range. This appears to be a Breathejustice-like POV-push to me. If anyone's interested, can you take a look to see how legitimate the edits are? -- ran (talk) 04:26, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * The source used for the article is unusual indeed. Sin Chaeho died a long long long time ago. Although he was a great historian, some 70 odd years have passed since he made his contributions. I am pretty sure that more reliable information is out there that is based on recent scholarship in Korea and China -- has there been no scholarship on Gojoseon since the 1930s??!?!? I don't think so...but the edits are legitimate as long as we accept that no contributions to Gojoseon history have been made since then. The edits are the state of the historical discipline in the 1930s!!!!

Requesting help
An article I just started, Old Korean, has been immediately besieged by a user who insists on removing notes, references, and links, and inserting massive amounts of ungrammatical unreferenced POV text. In view of WP:3RR, I am obliged to retire until 24 hours have passed. Can someone please look in on the article? Thanks. -- Visviva 14:49, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Please see discussion in old korean. --Hairwizard91 14:58, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Jindo Article
The Korean Jindo Dog article is very biased, as if written by a korean who really has a thing for Jindo's and wants to show how great they are over every other type of dog.

The article is also full of a lot of holes, going into depth of some information on Jindo's, and completely lacking information on other basic dog information, as compared to other dog articles.

I think it should be rewritten with a bit more research and a lot less bias.
 * How is it biased ?--Hairwizard91 02:10, 31 October 2006 (UTC)