Wikipedia:WikiProject Korea

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Welcome to the Korea WikiProject! This is a WikiProject that focuses on expanding, writing, and editing Korea and Korea related articles on Wikipedia. Wikiproject Korea hopes to make Wikipedia an outstanding source for Korea related articles. If you would like to help or join the project comment on the talk page or sign your name below.

Guidelines	Notice board	Open Tasks	Participants
Collaboration of the Month	Working groups	Korea Portal	Article assessment
Currently: Japanese invasions of Korea (1592-1598)

Contents 1 Scope 2 Goals 3 Working Groups 4 Participants 5 To do 6 Templates 6.1 Userbox

[edit] Scope

WikiProject Korea's scope extends to all Korea related articles and articles that are affected or connected to Korea. Articles are under the scope of WikiProject Korea when it is tagged with the WikiProject Korea template. WikiProject also hopes to expand by creating and writing new articles that are related to Korea, thus expanding the scope of WikiProject Korea.

[edit] Goals

WikiProject Korea has several goals to help make Korea related articles on Wikipedia much better. Our goals are to:

• Create extensively Korea related articles, and grow them to featured status.
• Add pictures to Korea related articles.
• Expand all stubs that are Korea related.
• Source all articles.
• Expand and fix redirects in order to increase accessibility.

• Translate Korean articles from Wikipedia Korea [1] to English.

[edit] Working Groups

If you are strong in any of the fields below, feel free to join to help out.

• Korean Cuisine: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Korea/Cuisine
• History: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Korea/History
• Military history: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Korea/Milhist
• North Korea: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Korea/DPRK
• Popular culture: Wikipedia:WikiProject Korea/Popcult
• South Korean geography: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Korea/SKGeo

• General Housekeeping: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Korea/Housekeeping

[edit] Participants

If you would like to join and help improve Korea related articles, please add your username and an optional comment.

1. Good friend100 (talk • contribs) Thanks for the support! I am interested in making Korea related articles better.
2. Wikimachine (talk • contribs) Are there only two members?
3. KiteString (talk • contribs) I would be honored to help.
4. Deiaemeth (talk • contribs) I usually work on History of Korea and Military of Korea related articles.
5. Jamesshin92 (talk • contribs) I created an article on Korean G-7. I'm starting to focus on recent South Korean technologies, especially on transportations.
6. Oyo321 (talk • contribs) I'll try to work on Korea's military history associated with Japanese and Chinese history.
7. LordAmeth (talk • contribs) Imjin War, and anything else Korean that pertains to my Japanese history focus.
8. Jsw663 (talk • contribs) Mainly nuclear-related issues and foreign relations concerning the DPRK, since I am studying this area at PhD level now. Wrote the six-party talks page and will contribute to related pages (eg countries' views) where appropriate.

   Thanks for joining! I appreciate it. Good friend100 16:58, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

9. General Tiger (talk • contribs) I'm a extreme Korean nationalist, but also rational. I currently live in Korea, and I'll look over Korean articles. Also, I'll be backing up the Korean nationalist view of history (although in a NPOV way). I'll also search for pictures, and receive requests. Currently gathering maps for Gando
10. Visviva (talk • contribs) Interested in working on article improvement, particularly building up our stock of Featured Articles and Featured Lists. As of 07:36, 30 September 2006 (UTC), targeting Miryang and List of mammals of Korea.
11. Merkurix (talk • contribs) I really enjoy editing Korea-related cuisine articles as well as Korean religious movements and figures. Let me know if I can help in anyway.

    There is an article Gujeolpan that is a stub. If you would like to you can improve it. Thanks for joining, I'm sure you'll help benefit these articles. Good friend100 14:31, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

12. Mumun_man (talk • contribs) Archaeology and prehistory of Northeast Asia. Nice to meet you ^^
13. Deiz (talk • contribs) Mainly created / edited Suwon & Seoul content on places and transport thus far, not terribly interested in editing on history or politics. I'm an admin so if any help is required with moves or other technical stuff (please, no content disputes) then give me a shout.
14. Hairwizard91 (talk • contribs) Rectification of ancient Korean history distorted from the period of Japanese colony
15. Iloveayu (talk • contribs) I would like to work on pop-culture articles since most of them could use a little helping hand.
16. AQu01rius (talk • contribs) General military history maintenance.
17. Kimchan (talk • contribs) I'll work on this project as much as I can.
18. Badagnani (talk • contribs) Korean music and cuisine.
19. Himasaram (talk • contribs) Fleshing out and correcting articles on Koren culture and society. Currently living in Seoul.
20. Sola4lang (talk • contribs) Some of the articles about Korean-Japanese relationships are exteremely bias. I will work to correct those that are wrong.
21. DandanxD (talk • contribs) I agree with Sola4lang (above) and I hope I can make a great difference.
22. Easternknight (talk • contribs) I will work on any article concerning Korea.
23. CaliforniaAliBaba (talk • contribs) I'm working on various articles about Korean populations outside of Korea, e.g. Koryo-saram, Koryo-mar, Ethnic Koreans in China, and, to a lesser extent, Korean American.
24. Goguryeo (talk • contribs)
25. Luccas (talk • contribs) Currently not in Korea, but was living in Busan until August 2006. I have many pictures of the Busan region; just ask.
26. Wikichung (talk • contribs) I am a Korean-born living in the US and would like to do as much as I can to make the articles on Korea as truthful as possible. I am not very experienced in editing Wikipedia articles but I know a lot about Korea because of my own interest in my heritage and everyone has to start editing somewhere!
27. Room218 (talk • contribs) Maintenance, monitoring for vandalism and bias, fixing grammar and organization.
28. Dooly00000 (talk • contribs • count) Will help out with whatever needed. S. Korean native living in US. Fluent in both language and culture.
29. profsnow (talk • contribs) Thanks for the invitation, happy to help out. Old Peace Corps volunteer/Korea here, so my language skills are ok (not the least because my wife is a former Peace Corps language teacher). I have a wide variety of odd interests in Korea, including dialects, some history, Quakers in Korea, and food/drink.
30. Ed4linda (talk • contribs) PhD in Korean literature (BA & MA Korean Studies), retired, now teaching Korean language translation and Hanja--main interests are Joseon Dynasty & Before; read Chinese & Japanese as well
31. Cookiesap (talk • contribs) MA in Politics of East Asia. Eager to learn more, while hoping to be an amateur Masan historian. Thanks for the invitation, Visviva!!
32. Oncamera (talk • contribs) Can help with pop culture articles.
33. Helznite (talk • contribs) I will do my best!

[edit] To do

For a more extensive list of lists of articles awaiting creation, please see the Big Red List.

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Korea:

edit · history · watch · refresh

Create North Korea South Korea Korea North Korean Cities South Korea-India relations Districts of Seoul National Institute of Korean Language Wanghusa Garakgukgi Korea YMCA Ji Cheongcheon Battle at Luozigou Battle at Dadianzi Battle of Bongohdong Battle of Samdunja Sampo Waeran Byeongin Yangyo Goguryeo-Wei War Lelang Conquest Xienpei Campaign Guda-guk Galsa-guk Gaema-guk Hangin-guk Chunchong King Taejong Jeamri Jinju fortress Improve North-South relations Sports Tourism Communications North Korean Missile Test (2006) Law Culture Politics Nat'l Assembly South Korea-U.S. relations Gangpeh Jirisan Joseonsa Pyeonsuhoe Korean architecture Gaya confederacy Samhan Goryeo Namsan (Gyeongju) Nangnang nation Korean royal court cuisine Bangjja Calligraphy Donghak Peasant Revolution Righteous army Korean Liberation Army Independence movement Culture of Korea Korean martial arts Korean swords Korean nationalism Korean knife Korean armour (see also Pages needing attention and Stubs) Images North Korean famine Kim Tschang Yeul Dong-A University Pohang Songguk-ri Japanese General Government Building, Seoul Jirisan Japanese invasions of Korea (1592-1598) History of Korea Dangun Korean pottery Three Kingdoms of Korea Mongol invasions of Korea Goryeo-Khitan Wars Goguryeo-Sui Wars Military history of Korea List of monarchs of Korea Prehistory of Korea Translate Korean Wikipedia articles: ko:이범석 (1900년) ko:유관순 ko:이봉창 ko:박헌영 ko:김원봉 Japanese Wikipedia articles: 第一次日韓協約 第三次日韓協約 Discuss Portal nominations Votes Complete List (edit)

[edit] Templates

This article is within the scope of the Korea WikiProject, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Korea and Korea related articles. If you would like to participate you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.

The above template is the current template for WikiProject Korea. You can add it to talk pages by typing "{{WikiProject Korea}} or "{{WPKOREA}}". If you would like to suggest a new template, please put it on the talk page.

[edit] Userbox

You can place this userbox on your userpage to show you are a member of this project by inserting {{User WPKorea}} (or {{User WPKoreaname}} to substitute your username for "This user"). It will also enter you in Category:WikiProject Korea participants.