Image talk:Korea2001.jpg

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[edit] Problems

I think this map is not worth keeping.

Its graphic quality is poor.

Since 1946, numerous extraprovincial territories have been created in both Koreas whose boundaries are not shown on the map. Assumably, capital letters in city names indicate special cities, which would mean that the map shows the situation after 1989-01-01 (when Daejeon became a 광역시) and before 1997-07-15 (Ulsan). You could argue that the boundaries present the situation in August 1946, after Jeju-do split from Jeollanam-do on 1946-08-01 and before Pyongyang split from 평안남도 in 1946-09 and Seoul from Gyeonggi-do on 1946-09-28, but that would make the demarcation line an anachronism.

Hence, the map is only useful to present the official South Korean view of things (i.e. ignoring all administrative changes in North Korea, except that the capital letters seem to concede some special status to Pyongyang) without saying so, which is probably not what users of Wikimedia projects expect or even like.

Moreover, the map is outdated since ten years (Ulsan) and presents information in an unintuitive way (capital letters instead of borders to show special cities). The map shows seemingly arbitrary placement of hyphens and spaces in the province labels as well as spelling inconsistencies (missing macrons [Kangwon-do, Suwon, Ch'angwon vs. Ch'unch'ŏn], Tokdo instead of Tokto).

The map uses only the name East Sea, which goes against current usage in Korea-related English articles. – Wikipeditor 09:06, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

this map is permitted by Wikipedia:Image copyright. also, this korea map relation with korea relation topic.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bason0 (talk • contribs).

Granted: We know that this map was created by the South Korean government's "Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade". I see 2 problems here:

1. This appears to be a contemporary map with no North-South boundary between North Korea and South Korea. A "United Korea"? From the perspective of the South Korean government?

2. "East Sea" is the only name that appears in place of Sea of Japan. POV-pushing?

I recommend that we delete this map on the grounds that it is unencyclopedic due to the 2 reasons above.--Endroit 11:52, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

The map does show the current boundary between North Korea and South Korea, but does not use those terms. Wikipeditor 08:40, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

To Bason0: I am not talking about any copyright problems. Of course the map has a relation with Korea, but it is probably not what 99% of editors and users are looking for. It has already been used in a wrong way, so I am afraid that might happen again in the future if it is not deleted. If kept, it should be clearly stated that it shows a FORMER situation (hence, the name Korea2001.jpg is misleading – 07:32, 26 September 2007 (UTC)) from an official SOUTH Korean perspective. Wikipeditor 08:40, 16 August 2007 (UTC)