Korean Wikipedia

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You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Korean. (August 2012) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Korean Wikipedia article at [[:ko:한국어 위키백과]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|ko|한국어 위키백과}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Korean Wikipedia

Screenshot Main Page of the Korean Wikipedia in December 2019
Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Available in	Korean
Headquarters	Seoul
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
URL	ko.wikipedia.org
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional

The Korean Wikipedia (Korean: 한국어 위키백과, romanized: Han-gugeo Wiki Baekgwa) is the Korean language edition of Wikipedia. It was founded on 11 October 2002 and reached ten thousand articles on 4 June 2005.^[1] As of July 2024, it is the 23rd largest Wikipedia, with 677,814 articles and 1,777 active users.^[2]