Talk:Minjung

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[edit] The name of this article: Minjung, Minjeong, or Minjong

As of 1987, there were 32 Romanization proposals published in English articles according to an academic source that I have lost since. Not one of those 32 Romanization proposals included a rendering of "u" for the vowel "ㅓ." This rendering is what has been called the American-enlisted-man's-back-of-the-envelope Romanization as a slap against the ignorance of international spelling conventions that is reflected. Wikipedia guidelines indicate a preference for the Revised Romanization or the McCune-Reischauer Romanization. Without getting into the shortcomings of the Revised Romanization - such as its rendering of this vowel as a historical mistake based on an erroneous assumption about a French spelling (reported in an academic journal edited by David McCann) - it is very clear that the rendering "Minjung" cannot be used, even if it is favored by some Koreans in the U.S. who have no knowledge of these issues and give an "off the top of the head" rendering based on phonology idiosyncratic to American English.

The page should be moved and re-directs created. -DoctorW 04:44, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

DoctorW's point is well taken but, in this case, irrelevant, since the term is "minjung" (populace, populism, proletariat, etc.) and not "minjeong" (civil administration). So, no move is needed. Rikyu 17:56, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Making the article more concise

I made the article much more concise. The content was unfocused and a little rambling. Before re-adding the content the data needs to be in some context. How is this Korean work different from the many other Korean words, that it receives its own wikipedia entry? What is the importance? etc. User:Cogitoboy

I am sorry. I probably jumped a little too hard on your recent edit to the Minjung article because you did do a very good condensing of a rather rambling article. I had just gone through a bunch of weird edits and vandalism in some of the articles on my Watchlist, so when I decided to look at the Minjing article because it was on the Copyedit section of the template:Open tasks, and say a bunch of text deleted, my first assumption was that it was just more odd goings-on.

From the original description, it sounds like this is an interesting word, and concept for the Koreans, but that the word also carries with it some baggage that shades its meaning. I hope that you can help better explain that. [[User:GK|gK ¿?]] 13:57, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)