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Former good article nomineeSouth Korea was a good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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April 19, 2006Peer reviewReviewed
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Orthographic Projection

Support for Orthographic Projection

  • The image serves its purpose as a locator map. It clearly shows S. Korea's location in the world and the close up map of the country is shown in the separate image.

Support for Red Colour Locator Map

  • Red is preferable colour to Wikipedia standard although it is not followed by most country articles.
  • South Korea is enlarged.

References

Anthem

Please look at the subtitle of Anthem!
It isn't Korean but Japanese. --Ojm4343 (talk) 10:03, 21 July 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ojm4343 (talk • contribs) 09:59, 21 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Huh? I don't see any Japanese. Please elaborate? -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 10:44, 21 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
For example the first line of anthem should be "동해물과 백두산이 마르고 닳도록" but it shows "東海が乾き果て、白頭山が磨り減る時まで"--Ojm4343 (talk) 10:17, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
There is a language selector. See pic related. So far, only Japanese and Korean subtitles have been added, and no one has yet been bothered to add anything else. Since "ja" comes before "ko" alphabetically, the player automatically selects the first one by default. -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 13:11, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

about Dokdo / Takeshima　Comfort woman

Please see the video was created using historical primary source material. Please assess the facts and well.

Music

Please put "Music of South Korea" link up in the music section. It won't hurt to have an article talking about all S. Korean music. 173.72.127.32 (talk) 10:34, 26 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ethnic Groups

The source for the ethnic groups in South Korea is not the number of Korean citizens who have different ethnicity, but the number of "foreign" people who might not hold Korean citizenships but live in South Korea. The information about the ethnic groups in South Korea needs to be correctly edited please. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.64.190.176 (talk) 09:38, 27 May 2013 (UTC) YES, someone please edit the percentages. If 2% are Japanese, that would mean 1 million Japanese live in Korea — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.54.3.162 (talk) 08:21, 10 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It is not correct information. I will delete the field. You can find an article related with this, http://news1.kr/articles/771326 . --Cheol (talk) 02:22, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Foundation

The article describes South Korea. Does it make sense to describe the date of it's founding based on the mythological date of 2333BC? Independently from what might be celebrated today as the officially celebrated founding day, the article should state the separation date of 1948 as the birth of modern North Korea which, technically, did not exist before that date.

I agree....this article is about a nation-state and there is already an article about the geographical area.

I remember seeing this talk page a while back, and there was a lot of complaints about Korean nationalist POV. The problem is still here. Moderators - please make this article conform to standards present on other pages....if it doesn't look like the average country's page, change it to look so.31.6.62.111 (talk) 13:20, 27 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Economic hsitory

The article states that in the decades that followed the Korean War, the economy rose etc. This is misleading. It took some time before the economy shot up. See, "Following the Korean War South Korea remained one of the poorest countries in the world for over a decade. In 1960 its gross domestic product per capita was $79,[35] lower than most Latin American and some sub-Saharan African countries.[36] " from the article on the country's economy. Kdammers (talk) 04:20, 18 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That's still "decades that followed the Korean War". I assume the sentence you're referring to is "In the decades that followed, the South Korean economy grew significantly and the country was transformed into a major economy"; that sentence does not say "immediately followed". rʨanaɢ (talk) 20:33, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Religion in South Korea

"Christianity is South Korea's largest religion, accounting for more than half of all South Korean religious adherents. There are approximately 13.7 million Christians"

Whilst reading the article i came across this little statement. Whilst factually accurate I can't help but feel it is bias. Christianity may be the largest religion, but the are incredibly outnumbered by atheists and other non-religious people. IN this context i don't feel that the staement has any merit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.229.138.218 (talk) 13:24, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Well, right next to that statement there is a graph already expressing that. Also, the sentence you mentioned explicitly says that it's referring to the proportion of Christians out of all religious adherents, not the proportion of Christians out of the entire population; therefore, the number of non-religious people is not strictly relevant. (Furthermore, I think it is iffy to refer to atheism as a "religion", just as it would be iffy to refer to not playing sports as a sport---if I were in a town where 80% of people played no sports, 15% of people played soccer, and 5% of people played baseball, I would still say soccer is the most popular sport there.) rʨanaɢ (talk) 20:31, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"Protestantism has proportionally declined since the 1980s in favour of Roman Catholicism."

This statement references the source: [1] for this decline, but nowhere in the source paper can I find this assertion. It only asserts that Roman Catholicism is the fastest growing religion since the late 1980s, not that Protestantism has declined. I propose we remove the sentence and replace with one about the growth of Catholicsm which more accurately represents the source. chrismdp (talk) 16:52, 25 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

South Korea is the most corrupt developed nation in Asia

So commonly known that it hardly needs a ref, but here's some more.

etc. etc.

More of the WikiCoverup can be found at: Corruption in South Korea Hcobb (talk) 04:23, 25 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If indeed the "fact" that South Korea "is the most corrupt developed nation in Asia", and it is commonly known and published on reliable sites all over, why did you not link your fact to one of those reliable sources in the first place, instead of linking to an anti-Korean site, whose aggregated stories are collected and translated by some anonymous "Ryan" and some anonymous "Nate"? That site, on its about page, has as part of its mission to air "Korea's dirty laundry... to the rest of the world." NPOV?

It seems your main point comes from a 2013 Transparency International report. (At least, that's what the anti-Korean site pointed to.) Yet in just looking at the first of your sources just listed (The Washington Times), that article doesn't even mention the 2013 report. It couldn't have. Because it was written in 2011, making different points about corruption in Korea. It clearly could not be a source for the fact you tried to put into the article.

Please don't throw together any sources your can come up with that involve keywords of "corruption" and "South Korea." If you wish to make a valid point about the problem of corruption, by all means do so. But clearly and carefully make the point, and clearly cite a reliable source. Thank you. Mark Froelich (talk) 04:43, 25 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's not about one event or one survey. Corruption has been a persistent characteristic of South Korea since its founding, and we've whitewashed it. Take for example: "The entire nation is rotten". Now that's obviously a fringe viewpoint from a person of no importance whatsoever, other than being the president of South Korea. http://www.economist.com/node/18989193 This issue gets lots of coverage in the western press, lots of coverage in the Korean press, and no coverage in Wikipedia. Why? Hcobb (talk) 05:20, 25 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Whole Buddist community Vs each sect in Christianity - Ridiculous !!!

There may be many sects in Buddhism. But the percentage of total Buddhists is compared with each sect in Christianity. This is just to give the impression that Buddhists are majority while they are not. You should really show the graph like "Percentage of Buddhists" Vs "Percentage of Christians"

  1. ^ http://koreamosaic.net/articles/syncretism.pdf
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