Talk:Kim Yushin

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Since the revised romanization of his name is Kim Yusin, should this article be moved to reflect that?

[edit] About his motivation to unify and final year's regret

Could you point the reference which say why he wanted to unify the coutries and he regreted for the expenses? --Ryuch 11:13, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Good question. Those statements were put in by the article's creator, User:Sjc196. I recently bought a Hangeulpan of the Samguk Sagi, so I should be able to answer that question. Unfortunately, I'm too lazy to read all three chapters on Kim Yu-shin at the moment. :-) The good old Naver encyclopedia says that he prayed for unification upon joining the Hwarang. [1] His early interest in unification is also supported by the tale in the Samguk Yusa about the Goguryeo emissary coming to kill him.

Also scanning through the Samguk Sagi, we see in Yeoljeon vol. 2 (김유신중) where he mentions the wretched suffering of the common people, despite which Baekje must be punished.

For now I've removed the references to Korean ethnic identity from the article. That seems like a modern concept. They can be put back in if someone can find a source for them.

-- Visviva 13:36, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Sorry for the delayed response, I haven't logged in here for a while. I got the information from various websites (no access to written sources, unfortunately) after painstaking searching in order to write a history of the figures whom the ITF Taekwon-Do patterns are named after - Yoo-Sin is one of the patterns - and I noticed that Wikipedia had no entry for him so I added what I had. I apologise for not being able to name my source, but I am quite happy for Ryuch's revisions to remain.

Sjc196 16:08, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)