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This article covers naming conventions generally followed by editors of Misplaced Pages articles on Korean subjects. None of these rules are cast in stone, and not all contributors follow exactly the same standard, although we are gradually arriving at a general concensus. If you have any ideas, suggestions, objections, or comments, please feel free to participate in the ongoing discussion on this article's Talk page. If the concensus changes and this page has not been updated, please update the affected rules below.
Personal names
Put the family name first; use a hyphen if commonly used by the person in question. Right now, the consensus is to follow the spelling of the name most commonly found in English, even if it does not conform to a standard romanization (thus, Kim Il-sung and Syngman Rhee instead of "Kim Il-sŏng" and "I Seungman"), but see also the discussion on the Talk page.
Romanization
We use the Revised Romanization of Korean for South Korean/Korean topics; we use McCune-Reischauer for North Korean topics
Hangeul and Hanja
The general rule is to transcribe a name or word only once, usually in the first sentence of the article whose title contains that name or word. There are, broadly, 2 conventions people follow:
- North Chungcheong Province (Chungcheongbuk-do in Korean (충청 북도; 忠靑北道)) is a province in South Korea....
- North Chungcheong Province (Chungcheongbuk-do in Korean (Hangeul: 충청 북도; Hanja: 忠靑北道)) is a province in South Korea...
Spaces between words
For Hangeul, the basic rule of thumb is that there are spaces between words that are each 2 or more syllables in length, while there is no space between 2 one-character words or between a one-character word and a 2-or-more-character word. (The rules are of course actually much more complicated than this and depend upon the grammatical categories of the words in question, but this rule does generally hold for nouns, as one would find in article titles.)
For Hanja, there are usually no spaces between words.
Note the exceptions to this pattern in the South Korean government's official romanization of the names of North and South Chungcheong, North and South Jeolla, and North and South Gyeongsang Provinces. In general, when romanized, place names in both North and South Korea add a hyphen between the place's name and its legal designation (thus, "X-do" for X도; "X-si" or "X-shi" for X시; "X-gun" for X군; and so on).
Rulers
Use this format:
King/Queen X (the Great) of Y
where Y is the name of the kingdom or dynasty. The following dynastic or kingdom names are currently being used:
- Baekje
- Goguryeo
- Garak or Gaya
- Silla
- Goryeo
- Bohai (for Balhae or Barhae--see the article for a discussion)
- Joseon
- Korea (for Emperors Gojong and Sunjong).
Historical periods
The historical periods are:
- Goguryeo (고구려)
- Three Kingdoms(삼국시대)
- Balhae (or Barhae) (발해)
- Goryeo (고려)
- Joseon (조선)
- Korean Empire (1897-1910)
- Japanese Colonial Period (1910-1945)
- Division of Korea (1945)
- US-Soviet joint occupation (no name generally agreed upon)
- North Korea (1948-present)
- South Korea (1948-present)
- Korean War (1950-1953)
East Sea/Sea of Japan
The use of East Sea / Sea of Japan is disputed.