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Religion

"More than 80% of Koreans living in America are Protestant or Roman Catholic. The other 30% are Buddhist and 2% non-religious or spiritualist-structuralist." Does anyone notice that 80%+ and 30% and 2% do not add up to 100%? In fact, it adds up to over 112%... If those are real stats, then i think "The other" should be removed because "The other" implies that the 30% are not part of the 80%. 112% > 100% 68.36.163.67 (talk) 22:41, 19 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bias?

This page seems to have bias including the education part and "Koreans being role models for the American society". -dandan xD 10:49 22 November 2006 (AEST)

I've just removed the "Education" and "Bias" sections; such sections should certainly exist, but as written they were not only POV but had no encyclopedic value and seemed dangerously close to trolling. More work still to be done. Thanks, -- Visviva 23:56, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

one tenth of the korean-american population are NOT adoptees. that's ludicrous. i'm removing that statement. there is no data or reference to support that. in fact, there is an article here on wikipedia that refutes that statement.

the reference to support that 75% of the population attend church regularly is supported only by: "It is difficult to estimate an exact figure, however, 70%-75% would be an acceptable figure that have been used by some scholars in the field." this article comes from a church website and the text used in the article excludes "regularly".

"related groups" info removed from infobox

For dedicated editors of this page: The "Related Groups" info was removed from all {{Infobox Ethnic group}} infoboxes. Comments may be left here. Ling.Nut 23:00, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of sources

The Huntington source is a magazine article, and it was used to support the fact that Christians outnumber Buddhists 10 to 1 among Korean Americans. A specific portion of the Kim book was also cited in the religion section, but someone deleted it for one reason or another. cab 00:55, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Income

Looking over the webpage of the U.S Census Bureau (the link is provided in this article) I see no reason to keep this part:

(Koreans) “…have higher than average incomes compared to other Asian groups, as well as American averages"

Considering that other Asian groups like the Taiwanese, Chinese (except Taiwanese), Filipino, Japanese and Asian Indians in the U.S, all have higher median household income, higher median family income and higher per capita income than Korean-Americans as well as taking into account the fact that the per capita income of Korean-Americans is below the national average, I find the above statement quite inaccurate. Again this is all from the U.S Census Bureau’s homepage and the link is provided in this article.

I suggest deleting said statement seeing as changing it to “have higher than average income compared to >some< other Asian groups” would be an irrelevant point since it really doesn’t say much.

--213.112.53.13 15:50, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of Asian Americans and other lists nominated for deletion

List of Asian Americans and a whole bunch of other lists have been nominated for deletion. If you have an opinion, please vote at the AfD.

Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2007 September 12 for all the lists that have been nominated for deletion. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 18:19, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hanja

couldn't the hanja also be "朝鮮系美國人", since the English word doesn't specify North or South. --Voidvector 01:15, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Both Korean WP and Chinese WP seem to confirm "韓國系美國人" in Hanja without also mentioning that they may be called "朝鮮系美國人" in Hanja. Of course this may just be because most Overseas Koreans were from South Korea. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 10:56, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

chronology

chronology of the history section is repetitive. I am deleting the latter half. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.27.158.254 (talk) 20:27, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Pictures

I CAN PROBABLY THINK 50 KOREAN AMERICAN ACTORS OR ACTRESS. PLUS MODELS AND BUSINESSMEN. WHO'S IN CHARGE KOREAN AMERICAN WIKIPEDIA SECTION. PLEASE UPDATE THE INFORMATION AND FACTS. FACTS AND FIGURES SHOWS KOREAN AMERICANS IS 2.5 MILLION. THE RATE US CITIZENSHIP HAS BEEN ALOT FASTER THEN PAST 10 YEARS. KOREAN AMERICAN CONTRIBUTION TO AMERICA TODAY HAS BEEN TREMENDOUS. UPDATE THE FACTS AND FIGURES.

IT WOULD BE WISE IF THEY SHOW KOREAN AMERICAN POPULATION BY STATE. TOP 20 STATE KOREAN AMERICAN POPULATION. YOU WILL GET TOTAL NUMBER 1.5 MILLION. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.63.207.12 (talk) 01:27, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

PLEASE ADD MORE PICTURES. ONE PICTURE OF " HERBERT CHOY" IS NOT ENOUGH. KOREAN AMERICAN CONTRIBUTION TO UNITED STATES IS ALOT MORE THEN JUST ONE PICTURE. DON'T YOU THINK??? KOREAN AMERICAN ACTORS, ACTRESS, MUSIC, DOCTORS, POLITICIANS ETC. ADDING MORE PICTURES WILL MAKE MUCH MORE POSITIVE FEEDBACK FROM KOREAN AMERICANS OR NON- KOREAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY. SMART IDEA TO ADD MORE PICTURES. PLEASE UPDATE THE INFORMATION. 2008 POPULATION I THINK ITS FAIR TO SAY KOREAN AMERICAN POPULATION IS ABOUT 2.5 MILLION. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Population6 (talk • contribs) 02:16, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

We only have two people now. It would be better to have four if we have somewhat to put. Michelle Wie is famous, but does she really represent Korea? I recommend Sarah Chang. and maybe Hines Ward.<-not sure.. Carolinehjkim (talk) 09:12, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

We have free pictures of Sarah Chang (Image:Sarah_Chang_before_performing.jpg) which we could crop, but the free (GFDL or CC-BY-2.0 licensing) images of Hines Ward, which you can see on his article, or many more on Flickr [1], don't really show his face; he's in full gear in all the ones I saw. cab (talk) 09:47, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Typical Korean-American in Las Vegas, 2008

I removed the "typical Korean" image as it seems to make a value judgement about what a "typical" Korean looks like. Viriditas (talk) 00:03, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

He undid your removal, though he at least took out the word "typical". I was going to revert the anon based on the image being self-promotional; however, is "Korean-American in Las Vegas, 2008" really any less representative than the nameless photo right above it captioned "Korean-American football player in Chicago, 1918"? It's kind of a humorous response to the older picture, and it *is* a valid illustration of the article topic. --MPerel 06:52, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to revert the inclusion of this photograph. The two photos are not comparable. Image:Korean-American-1918-football.jpg comes directly from the Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection and can be verified. On the other hand, Image:Typicalkorean.jpg comes from User:Levink, who has approximately zero contributions. If I had to guess, the photo is either of Levink or someone he knows, or if seen from another perspective altogether, is attempting to insult Koreans by making them look "thuggish". Finally, image policy, in particular Wikipedia:Image_use_policy#User-created_images, discourages "images with you, friends or family prominently featured in a way that distracts from the image topic...these images are considered self-promotion and the Wikipedia community has repeatedly reached consensus to delete such images." Viriditas (talk) 09:29, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've replaced the dubious image with Image:Korean Americans.jpg, an image from an official press conference that can be traced back to an official organization (ka4obama.com). Viriditas (talk) 09:54, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh that's much better, good find. --MPerel 15:30, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Socioeconomics section?

The part of the article called "Socioeconomics" seems to be based around racial stereotypes. A person is a human being before they are part of an ethnic group, of course they "hold diverse occupations", why wouldn't they? Contralya (talk) 22:41, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Religion section

Could possibly be expanded by drawing upon its antecedents in Christianity in Korea and Buddhism in Korea, two absolutely fascinating articles. Viriditas (talk) 10:04, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

List of notable people section

I suggest this be removed, again, and all such edits go to List of Korean Americans. It's ridiculously long and makes the article unbalanced. cab (talk) 01:17, 15 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Korean

Does korean american include evil korea? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.202.104.245 (talk) 19:56, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hines Ward is Not Korean

What the title says, he would fall under the article of Afro-Asian, he is NOT a Korean-American, not does he identify with being Korean. Easternknight (talk) 00:52, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]