Wikipedia Project
One of the great initial research tools for English speakers, The Wikipedia, is extremely light on Korean authors. It’s almost silly. Lee Dong-ha gets two sentences, Lee Mun-yol a paragraph, Park Wan-so doesn’t even have a page.
THE KTLIT WIKIPEDIA PROJECT (and anyone can join in), is to make sure that information about Korean authors starts to become generally available on the internet.
WHAT IS IT?
An attempt to make it much easier for English-speaking readers to find information on Korean authors and literature.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
There is a page for Korean novelists here on wikipedia, but most links go nowhere. So, it’s up to us to fill them in.
WHO HAVE WE ADDED?
The Wikipedia page for Kim Yong-ik, who did not have one.
Choi In-ho
Ch’oe Yun
Choi In-hun
Gong Ji-young (unstubbed)
Cho Se-hui
Han Gang
Han Su-san
Kim Seung-ok
Kim Dong-in
Park Wan-so
Yi Kwangsu
(more details available in the comment section below)
WHO CAN DO IT?
Anyone, Wikipedia is open, so anyone can start a page. And this will require help, since I’m sure much of the original information is in Korean, which we’re short on around here.


FIRST WEEK UPDATE
Kim Yong-Ik page added/link created from Korean Novelists Page
Ch’oe Yun page added
Cho Se-hui page added
Link to Kim Young-ha’s existing page created on Korean Novelists Page
SECOND WEEK UPDATE
Link added from Korean Lit page to Korean Novelist Page
Bae Suh-ah added to Novelist Page – Sandboxed at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Ccmontgom/Bae_Su-ah&action=edit
Choi In-ho added at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choi_In-ho
NOTE: We’re on semi-hiatus until we hear back from the gov’t on a grant proposal. ^^
Korean Gov’t appears uninterested, so we’re back on here…
Added the Park Wan-suh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Wan-suh) (multiple spellings possible!) and created a link to it from the Korea Literature Translation Institute page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_Literature_Translation_Institute_%28LTI_Korea%29).
This is slightly problematic, because there are multiple spellings of her name on the Wiki.
Added the Han Su-san page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Su-san
Working on Bae Su-ah and Han Gang
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ccmontgom/Bae_Su-ah
Han Gang is up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Gang
Choi In-hun (or In-hoon) is u: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choi_In-hun
Unstubbed Gong Ji-young: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gong_Ji-young
Hyun Jin-geon is now up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyun_Jin-geon
Kim Dong-in is up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dong-in
Yi Kwang-su is up at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_Kwang-su