Hello

Hi! I'm a Korean American male, I grew up in South Korea and now live in the US. I speak English, Korean, Chinese (conversational, increasingly rusty), and Japanese (basic, enough for simple conversations). I used to edit under a previous account toobigtokale (77,173 contribs) that I retired per WP:RTV, but I decided to come back. I also used to use the username seefooddiet but I thought this username was funnier 😅

I'm interested in almost every field of study, but edit mostly on Korea because I think I'm most useful to Wikipedia in that area. I try to edit quickly and boldly, as coverage of Korea on Wikipedia needs significant improvement and the Korean-speaking community on enwiki is quite small. I try to prioritize topics that I think others are unlikely to work on, have sparse coverage in English, and are important.

My other interests include the history of math and science, neural computation, evolutionary biology, religious studies, history, geopolitics, and music theory. I've been to 20 countries; my favorites are Iraq, India, Egypt, Mexico, Türkiye, Japan, and China.

My work

Sample of my work

See my created pages. For below, assume significant majority author by default.

Page	Summary
Sejong the Great	The greatest king in Korean history.
Hangul: History of Hangul Origin of Hangul ʼPhags-pa inspiration for Hangul hypothesis Obsolete Hangul jamo Hunminjeongeum Hunminjeongeum Haerye Hangul orthography Korean punctuation Hangul alphabetical order Hangul letter names Hangul Day	The native Korean alphabet.
Palaces: Gyeongbokgung History of Gyeongbokgung List of landmarks in Gyeongbokgung Changdeokgung Deoksugung Seokjojeon	Symbols of Korea.
MOS:KO, WP:NCKO, WP:ROMANKO, WP:KO/RS	Led effort to completely rewrite style guidelines and reliable sources list for Korea-related articles.
Semi-automatic Korean romanization: Module:Ko-translit {{Infobox Korean name/auto}} {{Korean/auto}}	Co-author on programs that semi-automatically romanize Hangul for Wikipedia.
Romanization of Korean Revised Romanization of Korean McCune–Reischauer ALA-LC romanization for Korean	Documenting the chaos. Wrote much of the content on these articles.
1883 Korean special mission to the United States	The first time Koreans set foot in the Americas. They marveled at elevators and vacuum mail tubes. While returning, they became the first Koreans to circumnavigate the Earth.
March First Movement Frank Schofield March First Movement in Longjing	A keystone moment in modern Korean history (but not in North Korean historiography).
Hyochang Park File:Hyochangwon as Korea's first golf course.jpg (original uploader)	A Korean royal cemetery that Japan turned into a golf course, with the graves still on the course.
Korean culture: Doljanchi Ddakji Gangneung Danoje	Covering pre-modern Korean culture topics.
Major tourist locations: Namdaemun Market Bukchon Hanok Village Hwangudan	Trying to cover places that people visit and link them to less visited places or topics.
Chŏng Sangjin	A hero to Soviet-Koreans that was exiled from North Korea. Kim Il Sung called him handsome and allegedly stole his story.
António Corea	Possibly the first Korean to set foot in Europe: a slave.
Soda Kaichi	A Japanese man that raised over 1,000 Korean orphans during the colonial period.
Budae-jjigae	A dish symbolic of South Korea's rise from poverty. It was originally made from smuggled food or garbage and is now a comfort food.
Sinhanch'on	An enclave of Koreans in Vladivostok during the colonial period that was completely wiped out in a single day in 1937.
Korean diaspora enclaves: Utoro, Uji Hometown Village Koreans in Kamchatka	Interested in the non-US Korean diaspora. The Utoro, Uji article is particularly interesting.
Koryo-saram articles: Koryo-saram cuisine Category:Koryo-saram communities in South Korea (wrote all here) {{Koryo-saram}} Kwŏnŏphoe Kwŏnŏp sinmun Taedong kongbo Korean Theatre of Kazakhstan Kazakhstan–Korea Friendship Park Cafe Lily	Ethnic Koreans of the mainland former Soviet Union.
Jeju articles: Dol hareubang Doldam Bangsatap Gogi-guksu Udo (Jeju Province) Jeongnang Seolmundae Halmang Category:Mountains of Jeju Province (wrote most of these)	Trying to improve coverage of Jeju's history and culture.
Newspapers: List of newspapers in Korea (wrote most articles listed here) The Dong-A Ilbo (most of) Keijō nippō The Korea Daily News History of newspapers in Korea (wrote most of)	Wrote most articles about newspapers published in Korea on enwiki
Stubs/starts for various categories/lists: List of oldest restaurants in South Korea Yonggeumok Category:Michelin-starred restaurants in South Korea Category:Seoul Future Heritages Category:Oraegage	Wrote almost all articles on or in these.