Talk:Korean Peninsula

message: from google, korean language pages, -wikipedia:
*한반도 returns 8.29 million korean language results
*韓半島 returns 9,830 korean language results, many of them actually chinese or japanese language pages
*조선반도 returns 136,000 korean language results
*朝鮮半島 returns 708 korean language results, most of them actually chinese or japanese language pages
Obviously, the chinese characters are not generally used by either north or south koreans. Appleby 18:52, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You know nothing but referring to Google? South Korea still uses Hanja. Even the country's name is written in Hanja. It's traditional but not extinct.--77.1.173.70 (talk) 23:18, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Hanja for peninsula

message: I do not think it is appropriate to use a Korean-language map that also has the Sea of Japan as "East Sea (Sea of Japan)". That is a Korean bias. In the English language, Sea of Japan is currently used more frequently and prominently than East Sea.
I am sure that there is another map that can be used in its place.--Sir Edgar (talk) 13:34, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Korean language map

message: I have stumbled on the Korea article and couldn't pass the notion that it describes exactly the same as Korean Peninsula, though utilizing a very awkward template of "Geopolitical organization" (there is no organization including South and North Korea to date). Since the articles are essentially the same describing the geography region, naturally i propose to merge.GreyShark (dibra) 11:20, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Oppose merge Good faith proposal, but I have a few reasons for disagreeing that this would be a beneficial move. This proposal is to move "Korea" into "Korean Peninsula" whereas the other way around would make more sense, but I'm not sure about that either. Korea goes far more in detail regarding the history and culture of the region, whereas Korean Peninsula is primarily focused on the geographic features, meaning Korea is more focused on the human, societal, or political aspects. I wouldn't merge the two; I would instead keep Korean Peninsula focused primarily on the peninsula itself. I wouldn't see any benefit, but I also don't see any common practices that would dictate we change this article's name to be like the rest of them; Crimea is just Crimea and not "Crimean Peninsula" despite being about the peninsula itself, but Kamchatka Peninsula uses the word Peninsula rather than just "Kamchatka." Based on that, it seems that more well-known or geopolitically significant peninsulas have an article with simply their name, as it is the WP:COMMONNAME, so a Korea->Korean Peninsula merge should definitely be off the table. Additionally, if we are to merge Korean Peninsula and any other article, I'd suggest Geography of Korea, but that's a different discussion for a different time. Cheers! Brendon the Wizard ✉️ ✨ 22:22, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

text: Oppose. Not all of Korea is on the Korean Peninsula. Specifically, Jeju and the other islands. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 09:57, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

text: Oppose see List of islands of Korea, the Korean Peninsula is a geographical feature, as are Jeju, Dokdo, etc, that are part of Korea. - CHAMPION (talk) (contributions) (logs)  03:54, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Oppose. A region is a concept created by humans but a peninsula is natural therefore they are different. ImprovedWikiImprovment (talk) 21:03, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

text: Oppose Clearly Korean Peninsula is a geographic concept while Korea is a political-ethnic-cultural concept which are fundamentally different. --123.161.170.169 (talk) 01:39, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: This page barely talks about the natural features of the Korean Peninsula, despite the fact that is the purpose of this article. ImprovedWikiImprovment    (disputationem) 12:17, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Natural 

message: WP:BRD discussion. I have restored my edit focusing on the more widely-known names. If you disagree, please discuss if you disagree. Wtmitchell  (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 12:03, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Japan Sea, Yellow Sea vs. Korea-centric namings 

message: I reckon that this article should be restored. 120.16.231.111 (talk) 07:26, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Restoration