Seefooddiet

Hello

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

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
- Koryo-saram, Zainichi Koreans, Korean Chinese, Koreans in Mexico
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)
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

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

Here is a description of what my scripts do. Please post on my talk page if you have any concerns with these edits.

Photos

I've uploaded many photos to Commons (old account, new account), almost all about Korea.

Sample of my work

Assume significant majority author, unless otherwise indicated.


Page	Summary
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 Frank Schofield March First Movement in Longjing	A keystone moment in modern Korean history (but not in North Korean historiography).
Hyochang Park File:Hyochangwon as Korea's first golf course.jpg (original uploader)	A Korean royal cemetery that Japan turned into a golf course, with the graves still on the course.
Park Chung Hee Park Jae-ok Birthplace of 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: List of newspapers in Korea List of oldest restaurants in South Korea Category:Michelin-starred restaurants in South Korea Category:Koryo-saram communities in South Korea Category:Seoul Future Heritages Category:Oraegage	Wrote almost all articles on or in these.