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A fact from Korean units of measurement appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 June 2017 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the South Korean government tried to metricate the country unsuccessfully four times before finally criminalizing traditional Korean units in 2007?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2017/June. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Korean units.

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Add'l units

There's probably some Korean form of chongbo that is missing. Kim (2007) also has some form of bo as a synonym for pyeong and a jak equal to ⁠1/10⁠ hop. Hong (2007) 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. HMC & 22 July 2007 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)[reply]

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

Sources for future article expansion

Except for this

"건축 단위의 역사", 전북일보, Jeonju: Jeonbuk Daily, 31 October 2006. (in Korean)

these seem to be blog posts (and therefore non-WP:RS) 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.

"도량형 환산/단위변화", Naver 블로그, Seongnam: Naver Corp, 10 June 2015. (in Korean)
"우리나라의 단위 변천사", Daum Cafe, Jeju City: Kakao Corp, 1 July 2009. (in Korean)
"[스크랩] 생활속 단위", Daum 블로그, Jeju City: Kakao Corp, 21 September 2016. (in Korean)

— $Llywelyn II$ 23:22, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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. — LlywelynII 11:37, 19 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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? — LlywelynII 11:37, 19 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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'. — LlywelynII 11:42, 19 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]