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Sources

Biggest issue is sources. Grammar and formatting is easy to fix. Please feel free to delete unsourced stuff if you can replace it with your own sourced writing.

Please don't add anymore unsourced writing; article has too much already toobigtokale (talk) 22:26, 22 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please, these issues still need solving people :( toobigtokale (talk) 14:15, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Still outstanding... Maybe in 6 months I can try to take this up, but fr it's depressing to be one of the only people tackling major issues on Korea-related articles. toobigtokale (talk) 22:31, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Same with Korean military articles. Still having problems with lack of sources. Cheer up Gasiseda (talk) 20:47, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Everything about Korea on Wikipedia that isn't about war or pop culture is in a sorry state. These kinds of articles that appeal to general audiences need a lot of attention that they're not getting. toobigtokale (talk) 08:20, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your words cannot be truer. If only all those Koreans at the Liancourt Rocks and Sea of Japan talk page had interest in editing other articles related to Korean history... A handful of editors like you and User:Koreanidentity10000 are the only ones who manage such pages. 00101984hjw (talk) 04:27, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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It should be eq York first as it has overtaken Japan. 64.189.18.37 (talk) 17:41, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. --Ferien (talk) 20:18, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Toponymy section

I wrote this in an edit comment, but the toponymy section is pretty poor. "Repetitive, MOS:REPEATLINK, repetitive non-English text (we don't need the same hanja/hangul every single time a word is mentioned, just need it the first time). Also lot of unsourced info in unencyclopedic WP:TONE"

Needs a thorough scrubbing, should probably be largely scrapped and rewritten in more unified prose. seefooddiet (talk) 20:17, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I made some edits on the repetitive info issue. Are there any specific statements that need sourcing? 00101984hjw (talk) 04:10, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

All unsourced statements should be sourced. seefooddiet (talk) 05:26, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Change all descriptions "Special City" into "Special Metropolitan City" as this is the official English name for the classification.

South Korean Local Autonomay Act Section 1 Article 2 Clause 1 denotes the types of first-level subdivisions as "1. The Special Metropolitan City, a Metropolitan City, Special Self-Governing City, Do, or Special Self-Governing Province;".

Hence, the use of "special city" in the entirety of the document should be changed to "special metropolitan city", and the name "Seoul Special City" should be changed to "Seoul Special Metropolitan City"

I leave the links of documents on websites operated by the Korean Legislation Research Institute (KLRI), a Korean government institution as my source. https://elaw.klri.re.kr/eng_mobile/ganadaDetail.do?hseq=57596&type=abc&key=LOCAL%20AUTONOMY%20ACT&param=L https://elaw.klri.re.kr/kor_service/lawView.do?hseq=62494&lang=KOR 2A01:4B00:AB28:4800:8D06:86AF:AD32:4A0F (talk) 10:32, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done Thank you! — Soveryvivid 22:51, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Considering working on this article

Does anyone know any rigorous English- or Korean-language books on Seoul's history? I found this in English but have been disappointed with its rigor. Some vague statements that I'm having a hard time trusting. seefooddiet (talk) 06:42, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'd guess that the most comprehensive Korean-language resource on Seoul's history is 서울 2천년사 [Seoul: A 2,000 Year History], a 40-volume series published from 2013 to 2016 (I found it on this page). 40 volumes may be overkill for this article, but the first volume is a general overview of Seoul's history. The entire series is free to read online. I also found 서울역사총서 [Seoul History Series] on this page, which covers histories of single fields (administration, architecture, transportation, etc.) and is likewise free to read. Some of the other book series on those two pages, as well as another page for standalone books, may also be worth a look.

There isn't too much in English, but I found Seoul: The Making of a Metropolis (1997) (available on the Internet Archive), Seoul: Memory, Reinvention, and the Korean Wave (2018), Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945 (2016), and City of Sediments: A History of Seoul in the Age of Colonialism (2023) (as their titles indicate, the last two only cover the history of Seoul during Japanese rule). Malerisch (talk) 04:49, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]