Talk:Geography of South Korea

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[edit] Notice

The duplicated notice by Sewing was moved to Talk:Dispute over the name Sea of Japan, not to make discussion scattered over Wikipedia.

The above unsigned comment was added by Nanshu. --Sewing 16:32, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Sea borders

Excuse me, but I don't think South Korea borders on the South China Sea. Uncle Ed July 6, 2005 12:07 (UTC)

You're right, it should be East China Sea. -- Visviva 6 July 2005 12:51 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

I don't understand the motivation for the proposed merge. Most of the information here, and much that should be added, is unique to the country (for example, maritime claims, highest elevation, area). The same can be said for Geography of North Korea. -- Visviva 6 July 2005 12:51 (UTC)

How about the wrinkles? Korea has been called a "mountainous land". Can you name 5 things about the two Koreas which distinguish them geographically? I can think of lots of things they have in common:

1. they share a peninsula
2. they border on the same seas
3. they fish in at least 2 of those seas
4. they each have a lot of mountains (and look wrinkled from the air)
5. their villages and cities were ravaged by the Korean War

And this is just off the top of my head; lemme go study the 2 articles now... Uncle Ed July 6, 2005 14:12 (UTC)

All true, but

1. They have different areas
2. They have different highest points and chief mountains
3. They have different maritime claims
4. They have different political geographies
5. They have different rivers and bays

As I mentioned somewhere, the stuff that the two Koreas have in common geographically -- basically, the Korean peninsula -- should be covered in Korean peninsula, or in daughter articles such as Taebaek Mountains. The peninsula article could use some expanding, and so could this one, but that's another matter. -- Visviva 17:46, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

I agree with Visviva. These articles don't need to be merged. They are two separate countries, so we don't need to combine them. Masterhatch 12 July 2005

We also have an article on the Korean Peninsula. So, support Visviva's argumentation. Kokiri 20:51, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Because Koreans want everything in the world in English named the way they want it, and because in my opinion, Koreans in general are like children who cry bitterly when they fail to get their own way, I am giving the Koreans and Korean proponents what they want. And, they can see just how preposterous [sic] it is to be so self-centered and so self-absorbed as if Korea is the only country in the world. Kojangee July 14th, 2005 09:50 Beijing Time

Please don't disrupt Wikipedia to make a point. -- Visviva 02:39, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

I think that the merge can be taken off this page. There is no need to merge these articles. Does anyone object if I take the merge sign down? Masterhatch 13 August 2005

No one has said anything, so I will remove the merge from this article. Masterhatch 15 August 2005