User:Sewing
I live in beautiful British Columbia, Canada. My main interests include:
- Korean language, culture, & history;
- Geography, especially of BC and Korea;
- Transportation and communications; and
- Computers.
Korean interests
Under the Korean category, some of my interests include:
- Hanja;
- Grammar, especially parts of speech and Speech levels;
- History, especially 20th century history;
- The eight traditional provinces of Korea;
- Dialects;
- Railways;
- Subways;
- The now non-existent Seoul streetcar system;
- Historic mountain passes (especially Mungyeong Pass);
- Various forms of the song Arirang, including Jindo Arirang and Miryang Arirang.
Major projects
Orthographic work:
- Regularizing romanization of North Korean terms to McCune-Reischauer
- Regularizing romanization of South Korean terms to Revised Romanization of Korea
- Adding Hangeul glosses of Korean and Sino-Korean words
- Adding Hanja glosses of Sino-Korean words
Pages which I am doing or am planning to do a major edit of or planning to create include:
- Arirang - Add first verse & refrain for Jindo Arirang and Miryang Arirang
- Hangeul
- Hanja - Parts of speech: nouns; adverbs; counters; verbs & adjectives (using 하다)
- List of Islands of Korea
- Korea
- Korean adjectives - Conjugations; prenominal modifiers (관형사)
- Korean Buddhist temples - Including both architectural terms and famous temples
- Korean calendar - Topics: modern calendar; lunar calendar; 24 two-week periods; leap years; 60-year cycle; 10 heavenly stems; 12 zodiacal signs; 2-hour periods; names of days of week; counting days; counting months; years numbered by monarchic reign
- Korean language
- Korean name
- Korean nouns - Common/Proper; dependent; prenominal modifiers; particles (조사); special case of 이다
- Korean numbers - Cardinal/Ordinal; native Korean/Hanja; counting and counters; counting days; counting other periods of time; large & small numbers
- Korean onomatopoeia - A major topic (XYXY+하다; XY+거리다)
- Korean verbs - Conjugations; auxiliary; use of 주다; Hanja + 하다; special case of 이다 (which is not considered a verb)
- List of Mountains of Korea
- Provinces of Korea
- Railways in South Korea plus separate articles on individual lines
- Romanization of Korean - Add links to M-R, RR of K, and Yale; add a comparative table of the 3 schemes.
- Seoul Tramway
- Seoul Subway plus separate articles on individual lines
- Subways in South Korea plus separate articles on individual cities
- Transportation in South Korea - make Railways a separate article
Other articles I want to create or edit:
Namdaemun/Sungnyemun; Dongdaemun; Bulguk Temple; Seokguram
Contributions
Creations
Pages I either created or to which I contributed the first nontrivial text (either under my username or under a URL when I forgot to log in) include:
A: Administrative Divisions of South Korea; Arirang
C: Canonical; Chinhae (redirected to Jinhae); Choi Sejin; Choson (redirected to Joseon); Chungcheong
D: DMZ (Korea) (now renamed to Korean Demilitarized Zone)
E: Eight Provinces of Korea (now merged with Provinces of Korea)
G: Gabo Reform; Gaya Mountain National Park; Geum (now renamed to Geum_River); Geum River; Gimpo Line; Gunsan; Gyeongbu; Gyeongbu Expressway; Gyeongbu Line; Gyeongin; Gyeongin Expressway; Gyeongin Line; Gyeongsang; Gyeongseong
H: Haein Temple; Honam; Honam Expressway; Honam Line
I: Iksan; Iri (now redirected to Iksan)
J: Jeolla; Jeolla Line; Jeonju; Jinhae; Joseon
K: Keijo; Korean Demilitarized Zone; Korean National Railroad
M: Mill (currency); Mokpo
N: Naju
P: Pohang
R: Romanization of Korean
S: Samuel E. Martin; Sino-Korean
T: Tripitaka Koreana
Major edits
Pages to which I have made significant additions (either as myself or under a URL when I forgot to log in) include:
F: Fraser Valley
G: Gimpo Airport
H: Hangul; Hanja
I: Incheon International Airport
K: Konglish; Korean family name (now redirected to Korean name); Korean language; Korean name; Korean surname (now redirected to Korean name)
L: List of cities in South Korea; List of Korea-related topics
P: Provinces of Korea
R: Romaja
S: Special city (now a disambiguation page, linking to Special cities of Korea)
T: Transportation in South Korea
W: Won
Minor edits
Pages to which I have made small additions or changes (usually one or two sentences) include:
A: Asterix
B: Backslash
C: Conifer
D: Demilitarized zone
E: Elba
G: Gimpo; Gyeonggi
H: Hubert H. Humphrey; Hyundai; Hyundai Motor Company
K: Korea; Korean names for Korea
L: Latin names of European cities; List of city nicknames; List of computer scientists; List of railway companies in Japan; List of waterways; Wikipedia:Alphabetical list of Wikipedians; Wikipedia:Wikipedians by fields of interest
M: McCune-Reischauer
N: Napoleon I of France
O: Obelix
P: Parallel
R: Radical (Chinese character); Rail transport; Revised Romanization of Korea; Romanization
S: Sea of Japan; Seoul; South Korea
T: Tipitaka; Township; Transportation in Canada
U: Ulsan; United States dollar
Very minor edits
Pages to which I only changed a link or added section headings include:
C: Chinese family name (changed a link)
E: Eastern Armenian (added section headings)
F: Family name (changed a link)
L: List of Koreans (changed a link); List of most popular family names (changed a link)
S: Sun Myung Moon (changed a link)
W: Wang (changed a link); Western Armenian (added section headings)
Meta pages
N: Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(Korean)
Recent talk pages
A: Talk:Albert Uderzo
C: Talk:Chinese character; Talk:Chinese five elements
H: Talk:Hangul; Talk:Harper's Bazaar
K: Talk:Korea; Talk:Korean family name; Talk:Korean name
L: Talk:List of computer scientists
T: Talk:Tondemo
Favourite pages
Chinese character; Eight Principles of Yong; Hunmin jeong-eum (document)
Wiktionary CJK indices
Other Wikis
I am also contributing to Wiktionary (my user page) and the Korean-language Wikipedia (my user page).