Talk:Lee Choon-jae

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Detail

This was apparently South Korea's first serial murder case... surely there must be more detail somewhere? Could someone translate the Korean page? I'll edit a translation for grammar and spelling if necessary. Paris1127 (talk) 00:56, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Page deletion and redirect

I'm not sure that deleting the contents of this page and redirecting it to the recently discovered killer is a good idea. It removes the original work and attribution of all the editors and parts of the original article are copied into the new one without attribution. I believe this is against the rules for copying within Wikipedia Dy Vuhig (talk) 00:02, 3 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't copy the article onto another page, but you're probably right that moving the article would have been better to preserve the edit history. I set out to create a second article for the killer but along the way I figured that it would be better to combine everything into one page, which is why I copied some details (mainly the suspect description, the list of films, and partially the list of victims). I've edited this page myself over the past few weeks, so some of what was copied was already written by myself. I'll ask an admin to move this page to the new title. Johndavies837 (talk) 00:40, 3 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for doing so, I hope I didn't come across as rude as I certainly didn't mean to imply you copied the whole article

Dy Vuhig (talk) 13:43, 3 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yoon / Yun Sung-yeo

Please make up your mind on how to spell that Yoon / Yun Sung-yeo character, he is referred to as 'Yun' in the first half of the article, then suddenly the article starts talking about some 'Yoon' person which made me wonder if i missed something and re-read the article until i realized there are two whole different writings of the name of the same person — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:8388:AC1:1080:8872:9128:682F:71 (talk) 15:46, 20 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

2 million police officers investigated the murders?

"More than 2 million police officers, a record number for a single case, have been mobilized to investigate the murders."

This is in the article, and is repeated in the source it is quoted from, but this can't be right? There are only 120,000 police officers in South Korea as of 2020, so presumably a lot less in the 1980s/1990s. How could this claim be true. I have never heard such a high number of investigators for any case in the world, ever. A typo in the original article it is quoting from? Imagine what the paperwork would look like if 2 million police officers were involved! 2A02:C7C:5EC4:6B00:A834:3D3C:EC1B:743E (talk) 22:19, 25 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I agree it seems incorrect. From looking at the Dong-A Ilbo's original article and adding in the caveat that I don't speak or understand Korean beyond an elementary reading of Hangul, I would guess there was a machine translation that didn't understand Korean numerals and how counting works. On the other hand, South Korea was a military dictatorship at the time, so maybe there were a lot more cops then? Or soldiers were counted as well?

On an unrelated yet crucial note, the article can't seem to decide if his name is romanized as Lee Choon-jae or Lee Chun-jae. Paris1127 (talk) 18:23, 26 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]