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The Korean Wikipedia (Korean: 한국어 위키백과) is the Korean language edition of Wikipedia. It was founded on 11 October 2002. It was founded on 11 October 2002. As of December 2024, it is the 2nd largest Korean language Wiki site [ 1 ] and the 23rd largest Wikipedia, with 692,460 articles and 1,881 active users.
Many Chinese of Korean descent have ancestral roots and family ties in the Hamgyong region of North Korea and speak the Hamgyŏng dialect of Korean according to North Korean conventions. [32] However, since South Korea has been more prolific in exporting its entertainment culture, more Korean Chinese broadcasters have been using Seoul dialect.
The Chinese Wikipedia has been blocked in mainland China since May 2015. [2] Nonetheless, the Chinese Wikipedia is still one of the top ten most active versions of Wikipedia by number of edits and number of editors, due to contributions from users from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Chinese diaspora.
For instance, the Chinese Wikipedia automatically transliterates between six standard forms: three using simplified Chinese characters (Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore) and three using traditional Chinese characters (Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau ).
The Chinese government has cut off access to the Chinese Wikipedia for residents of mainland China since 2019. [14] [15] In March 2021, Chinese netizens claimed that South Korean netizens changed their entries related to Chinese history on a large scale through the historical version comparison function of Baidu Baike.
Sino-Korean vocabulary includes words borrowed directly from Chinese, as well as new Korean words created from Chinese characters, and words borrowed from Sino-Japanese vocabulary. Many of these terms were borrowed during the height of Chinese-language literature on Korean culture. Subsequently, many of these words have also been truncated or ...
The turning point for Koreans who had migrated to China, but later returned in the opposite direction to the Korean Peninsula, was the fall of Japanese colonial rule.The peak of the return migration to the peninsula was about two years after liberation, during which time approximately 700,000 Koreans in China, equivalent to a third of their total population, returned.
In some cases, Chinese-language sources transcribe Korean words into Chinese. For example, transcribing the native Korean name Da-som (다솜) as Duoshun (Chinese: 多順). In some cases, when a Korean person already has a Hanja name that is not widely known, Chinese-language sources may invent their own Chinese spelling of the name. [3]