Talk:Geography of South Korea

message: The duplicated notice by Sewing was moved to Talk:Dispute over the name Sea of Japan, not to make discussion scattered over Wikipedia.
:The above unsigned comment was added by Nanshu. --Sewing 16:32, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: hi

message: Is the Taebaek-Sanmaek and Nangrim-Sanmaek simply the northern and southern divisions of the Baekdu-daegan? In other words, do Taebaek and Sangrim collectively form the Baekdu-daegan? --Bentonia School 15:34, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question, please help. 

message: Why are you, a Japanese programmer, changing the edits made by me (a Korean) on the Article: "Geography of South Korea"? In particular the changes I made were to edit the disputed name of the Sea of Japan to "East Sea". As it is the official position of the KOREAN government that the name of that body of water should be the "East Sea", and since I did indeed quote a credible reference pertaining to the dispute over the name (another Wikipedia article), it should be left intact. Furthermore, since the article is about the geography of South Korea, it stands to reason that the naming conventions should respect what the Korean people, and the Korean government officially recognize it as, especially as there is a large amount of evidence supporting either naming convention (depending on which international maps, Chinese, Korean, European, or Japanese you refer to). In any case, it seems to me that since the article is not concerning Japan, but rather the "Geography of South Korea", you should respect the wishes of the vast majority (if not near unanimous) population of Korea and the Korean government. Please do not undo my changes again.
Dr. J Choi, PhD —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.95.73.252 (talk) 05:08, 28 October 2009 (
:Please read Wikipedia:Naming conventions, Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Korean)#Sea of Japan (East Sea) and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names). Per the guildlines, we primarily use "Sea of Japan" (the article title; the most common, unambiguous name recognizable by English speakers) and mention "East Sea" in Korea-related articles.  If you disagree with them, please raise the issue at the respective talk pages.  --Kusunose 05:45, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: To Kusunose

message: The inset map has had different changes in its history.  Following NPOV, we should be consistent and use "Sea of Japan (East Sea)" as the proper designation in the map (not necessarily this one) which accompanies the article.  I have tagged the image description as editorializing.  Can a more knowledgeable/skillful/enterprising editor create a new NPOV image please?  (We are restricted from modifying the existing image.)  Also note that Sea of Japan naming dispute is part of the article. Thank you. --S. Rich (talk) 03:35, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank  you, editor Carroback, for your recent edit.  As the map now correctly uses the term "Sea of Japan (East Sea)" I have deleted the editorializing tag.--S. Rich (talk) 08:49, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image (Map) edits and Tag

message: In the section on the DMZ: "from the east to the west coasts for a distance of 241 kilometers (238 kilometers of that line form the land boundary with North Korea)."
What happened to the last three kilometers? 
--128.189.171.206 (talk) 00:04, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarify this? 

message: User:Piotrus tagged the article with a split banner in December 2022, I was just looking at this after reading about the ongoing monsoon in South Korea and think splitting the article could make sense. For example Climate of Japan and Geography of Japan are 2 separate articles. - Indefensible (talk) 03:59, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: @Indefensible And I of course still think those are separate topics (Climate of Korea, Climate of South Korea, Climate of North Korea...). All redirect to their respective Geography of... articles. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:08, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, it does not really seem ideal that way in my opinion, but perhaps just a consequence of low bandwidth or participation from any interested editors. It does not seem like there is much activity here based on reviewing the history of this page above unfortunately. Let us have this open for a week or so and then we can just try splitting the articles if no one else objects by then. - Indefensible (talk) 04:15, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Linked this page on WP:Korea for any participants there who might be interested with this subject. - Indefensible (talk) 07:12, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split climate from geography