Talk:Koryo-saram cuisine

Requested move 9 October 2023

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Lightoil (talk) 00:46, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

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Koryo-saram cuisine → Soviet Korean cuisine – Proposed title is not firm. Struggling to figure out how to title this.

I lean towards thinking the scope should include both Koryo-saram and Sakhalin Korean cuisine, as they may not be separately independently notable enough to merit a split.

If that's the case, calling this page "Koryo-saram cuisine" is unfair to Sakhalin Koreans, who generally consider themselves separate (see Sakhalin Koreans for explanation). Brainstorming alternatives:

• Post-Soviet Korean cuisine
  • But this implies time scope is after the Soviet Union only
• Soviet Korean cuisine
  • Similar issue, risks sounding like it's during the Soviet Union era only
• Russosphere Korean cuisine
  • Could Koreans of Ukraine take offense to this? Not sure, does anyone know how Ukrainians in general feel about the term "Russosphere"? toobigtokale (talk) 02:13, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
• Move to Soviet-Korean cuisine per WP:RECOGNIZABILITY and MOS:HYPHEN. Rreagan007 (talk) 19:19, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

Oppose. What is actually wrong with the current title? It seems fine. It certainly seems better than the proposals. Neither Soviet nor post-Soviet describes the full chronological scope (and “post-Soviet” is not recommended).[1] And cuisine of the Russosphere Koreans!? Just no.  —Michael Z. 04:08, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

I explain the rationale for the current title of "Koryo-saram cuisine" in my proposal. I lean towards thinking the scope should include both Koryo-saram and Sakhalin Korean cuisine, as they may not be separately independently enough to merit a split. If that's the case, calling this page "Koryo-saram cuisine" is unfair to Sakhalin Koreans, who generally consider themselves separate (see Sakhalin Koreans for explanation).

Sakhalin Koreans and Koryo-saram are not culturally the same people. Koryo-saram reportedly treated Sakhalin Koreans pretty poorly historically, which has created animosity mostly from the Sakhalin side.

While maybe it's best that we separate them in general, for this page, to my understanding, Sakhalin cuisine has blended into the larger Koryo-saram cuisine. I've seen a bunch of videos where Koryo-saram cook up Sakhalin dishes, and my guess is the average post-Soviet probably doesn't distinguish between the cuisine of the two.

Tl;dr in order:

1. Their cuisine (I think?) is blended together.
2. If we want one page for the blended cuisine, we should title it to avoid unnecessarily offending anyone.

toobigtokale (talk) 04:17, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Well, first we should decide whether they are one subject or two, or whether one is part of the other. But then Koryo-saram and Sakhalin Korean cuisine could solve the problem. Much better to name both groups than define them by the colonial POV of a dead empire.  —Michael Z. 06:13, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

It occurs to me that since the parent topic of the respective cultural groups are two independent articles, WP:CONSUB could be interpreted to support naming both in the title of this shared subtopic.  —Michael Z. 13:30, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Yes this makes sense. I need to get around to confirming if they're intertwined via academic-quality sources for this topic. My brain has been a bit spent lately so I've been doing easy research for past few days. toobigtokale (talk) 19:24, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Also pinging to see if @Prokonsul Piotrus has any ideas toobigtokale (talk) 04:27, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

• Oppose. The article on the people is at Koryo-saram. These are not Soviet people any longer and the cuisine still exists, so any title with "Soviet" in it is not appropriate. I would support Koryo-saram and Sakhalin Korean cuisine. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:43, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
• The compound title may work; thank you for the input everyone! toobigtokale (talk) 18:53, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

  (Or maybe plural Koryo-saram and Sakhalin Korean cuisines, if they are somewhat distinct but occur in a shared cultural milieu.)  —Michael Z. 19:36, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

  That's a good point—I'll try to confirm their relationship today and post back here soon. toobigtokale (talk) 19:46, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

  Finally got around to it; I think I misjudged and their cuisines are distinct (although probably not to the average outsider). What threw me off is people often confuse the two cuisines, namely by calling Sakhalin dishes Koryo-saram dishes.

  Maybe I should cancel this move request and split off a Sakhalin Korean cuisine article. Let me know if this sounds good toobigtokale (talk) 09:12, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

TODO

I still need to make the sakhalin korean cuisine split; I'm about to go traveling for a few months so my pace of work may slow down. I'll try to squeeze it in soon. I won't forget about this though, will come back to it. If anyone else wants to make the split, I encourage them to toobigtokale (talk) 20:20, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

i did it a few weeks ago fyi Sakhalin Korean cuisine toobigtokale (talk) 06:11, 24 January 2024 (UTC)