User:seefooddiet
Hello
[edit]Hi! I'm a Korean American male, I grew up in South Korea and now live in the U.S. I speak English, Korean, Chinese (conversational, increasingly rusty), and Japanese (basic, enough for simple conversations). I used to edit under a previous account (77,173 contribs, 194 pages created) that I retired per WP:RTV, but I decided to come back.
Interests
[edit]I'm interested in almost every field of study, but edit mostly on Korea because I think I'm most useful to Wikipedia in that area.
- Modern Korean history (19th and 20th centuries)
- Korean diaspora
- Religious studies
- Abrahamic faiths
- Early Islamic history, sects and related religions, intersect relations
- Early and modern Judaism, streams, Samaritans, Beta Israel, and relations between these groups
- Early Christianity, Christian syncretism, Ethiopian Orthodoxy, and various Mormon sects
- South Asian religions
- Sikhism, modern Hindu-Sikh-Jain-Buddhist relations, practice of these religions outside of South Asia (e.g. in Guyana)
- Abrahamic faiths
- Math and science
- Biographies of mathematicians, physicists, and computer scientists
- History of neural computation
- Early history of math, evolution of numeracy and numeracy of animals
- Evolutionary biology
- Geopolitics
- Modern Middle Eastern history
- Travel
- I've been to 20 countries, my favorites are India, Egypt, Mexico, Türkiye, Japan, and China.
My work
[edit]I try to edit quickly and boldly, as coverage of Korea on Wikipedia needs significant improvement and the Korean-speaking community on enwiki is quite small. I try to prioritize topics that I think others are unlikely to work on and that are important or useful for non-Koreans, the Korean diaspora, and historians.
AutoWikiBrowser
[edit]Here is a description of what my scripts do. Please post on my talk page if you have any concerns with these edits.
Photos
[edit]I've uploaded many photos to Commons (old account, new account), almost all about Korea.
Sample of my work
[edit]See my created pages. For table below, assume significant majority author, unless otherwise indicated.
Page | Summary |
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MOS:KO, WP:NCKO, WP:ROMANKO, WP:KO/RS | Led effort to completely rewrite style guidelines and reliable sources list for Korea-related articles. |
1883 Korean special mission to the United States ![]() |
The first time Koreans set foot in the Americas. They marveled at elevators and vacuum mail tubes. While returning, they became the first Koreans to circumnavigate the Earth. |
Sinhanch'on ![]() |
An enclave of Koreans in Vladivostok during the colonial period that was completely wiped out in a single day in 1937. |
March First Movement | A keystone moment in modern Korean history (but not in North Korean historiography). |
Hyochang Park ![]()
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A Korean royal cemetery that Japan turned into a golf course, with the graves still on the course. |
Park Chung Hee | One of the most important Korean leaders in history, favored by the right. WIP; done until teaching career. |
Kim Ku | One of the most important Korean leaders in history, favored by the left. WIP; missing 1945 onwards. |
Deoksugung | A 20th-century royal palace in Seoul with a mix of Western and Korean buildings. |
Chŏng Sangjin | A hero to Soviet-Koreans that was exiled from North Korea. Kim Il Sung called him handsome and allegedly stole his story. |
Soda Kaichi ![]() |
A Japanese man that raised over 1,000 Korean orphans during the colonial period. |
Utoro, Uji ![]() |
An enclave of Korean squatters in Japan that dodged eviction for 65 years until they finally became legal occupants. |
Budae-jjigae ![]() |
A dish symbolic of South Korea's rise from poverty. It was originally made from smuggled food or garbage and is now a comfort food. |
Yonggeumok ![]() |
One of the oldest active restaurants in South Korea; beloved by North and South Koreans alike. |
The Korea Daily News ![]() |
A newspaper that advocated for Korean independence, run by a Brit. |
Gogi-guksu ![]() |
A noodle dish native to Jeju Island, born of its modern history. |
Koreans in Kamchatka | North Korean escapees in Russia that now align themselves with South Korea more. |
Stubs/starts for various categories/lists: | Wrote almost all articles on or in these. |