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I have noticed that many English-language articles on North Korean cities cite population estimates from 1991. However, many of the Korean-language pages for the same cities appear to (I don't read Korean) provide figures from 2008 that are often significantly different from the 1991 figures. Will someone with Korean language skills please ascertain the validity of the figures on the Korean pages and update the English pages accordingly?

Related discussion: #서울특별시 is not Seoul Special City, but Seoul Metropolitan Government in English

1. Seoul Metropolitan Government = Local government of Seoul
2. "Seoul" or "Seoul City" itself = Name of the city in English. This is the official name in English.
3. "Seoul Special City" = literal meaning of the Korean name. NEVER USED officially.

They can be confirmed by the official answer from the Seoul Metropolitan Government.

Additionally, teukbyeolsi as an administrative unit in the Local Autonomy Act (지방자치법/地方自治法) is translated as "Special Metropolitan City" by the Korea Legislation Research Institute, a government-invested research institution. However, it can't be applied to the English name of Seoul because the local names are regulated by the local authority not the central government. It can be confirmed by the official answer from the Ministry of Public Administration and Security.

For detail, see User:Yes0song/Administrative_divisions_of_the_Republic_of_Korea. The official answers can be read in my blog (written in Korean). --Yes0song (talk) 07:17, 24 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Question - Is there a specific issue to be decided here? Is there a choice to be made? If so, to which article? Or are you just posting some information that may be useful to the project? If the latter, maybe it should not be an RfC. --Noleander (talk) 16:57, 25 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Would someone who can translate something into Korean for me please leave me a note on my talk page? I need to contact a user on Korean Wikipedia, so I need a translation. Thank you. Pine^talk 08:43, 2 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I recently came across Category:File-Class Korea-related articles and Category:Disambig-Class Korea-related articles, both of which were empty. According to this discussion, it seems that the categories were created in a unilateral decision and have never officially been used by the {{WikiProject Korea}} template. Would this WikiProject support the use of these categories, or do their inclusion not seem to be merited? — ξ^xplicit 20:55, 13 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

They seem like a good idea to me, since it would make NA-class much cleaner. 70.24.247.40 (talk) 04:43, 26 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I found a source about Korean genetics:

• Shim, Jae-woo and Kim Hyung-eun. "What makes a Korean Korean?" Korea Joongang Daily. September 9, 2011.

WhisperToMe (talk) 06:21, 19 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi all. The template used on all of the temples listed here use the Template:Infobox Korean name template. This is intended for names, not templates, and as such all the wikilinks are pretty inappropriate. The Template:Infobox temple could be used, or a new template could be made; as is they're just plain wrong! Nikthestoned 10:14, 19 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see what the problem is, the temple has a name, the name is in Korean, therefore, the Korean name template is appropriate. It might not be the most appropriate template to use, or it might be best to use it in conjunction with the temple template, but using it by itself does not seem inappropriate at all, just incomplete. 76.65.128.90 (talk) 06:51, 30 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I was stationed in South Korea at Camp Stanley in the eastern corridor of the country in the mid-70's. One day I took a hike up into the mountains about 4-5 miles nortwest of the camp, where I came upon a HUGE tiger pawprint in the dirt! Needless to say I didn't stick around to see if there were any other tiger signs. They say there are no tigers left in South Korea! Iknow better!!

Michael Wood — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.8.18.136 (talk) 23:29, 5 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Can anybody translate ko:미투데이? Jay2kx (talk) 16:46, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm currently writing an extended article on the May 16 coup (since the current one is rather lacking) at User:Tyrannus Mundi/May Coup. I have only just begun, and would appreciate any advice from participants here on what to write and whether what I've written so far is adequate. --Tyrannus Mundi (talk) 15:48, 29 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

For all those interested, there's a rather big change applied to this infobox (see last section talkpage) with removing and unhiding fields. --Cold Season (talk) 22:06, 29 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wouldn't it be a good idea to have its presence in Commons? Considering I noticed contributors trying to upload pictures but getting them deleted because they don't understand what they did wrong. I think there should be some kind of task force that would help find pictures with the correct CC license. I already proposed it in the Commons:WikiProject Council but it might take a while since there is only 2 members (1 semi-active). However, if enough people are interested, we should start it ourselves. 제이2케이엑스 (talk) 14:36, 5 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Korea on Commons Jae ₩on (Deposit) 18:26, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You should add it to {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Korea/Navigation}} . 70.24.248.23 (talk) 05:36, 26 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm currently working on elections around the world, and during a discussion about "missing" elections, I had a thought about Korea. Currently we have {{North Korean elections}} and {{South Korean elections}}, which I believe are largely complete. However, I was wondering if there were any elections prior to 1948 - i.e. during the Joseon/Empire/Japanese occupation periods. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Number 57 12:57, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Japanese occupation periods mayors and assembly members were errected by Koreans like as Taiwan. Park Chungeum ko:박춘금 was errected as a Imperial House of Representatives lawmaker from tokyo, but limited people who lived japanese mainland. Most of koreans lived in Korean peninsula. however many noble koreans had their seats in Imperial House of Peers. But I dont know english good sources.--Syngmung (talk) 16:10, 29 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]