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message 1: by Peter (last edited Jul 16, 2025 03:02AM) (new)

Peter J. | 14 comments Two requests related to this historical writer Kang Kyung-ae (died 1944, spellings differ; see point-1), whose main GR entry is here:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

Requests or matters for attention:

(1.) POSSIBLY CHANGE GOODREADS DISPLAY-NAME TO "KANG KYUNG-AE." This is a Korean whose name has been romanized variously over the years, and maybe a bit irresponsibly (as in "all over the place"), including as:

1- "Kang Kyŏng-ae" (wikipedia; and used in at least some books up to 2014);

2- "Kang Kyong-ae" (no mark over the 'o') (used in a 2009 book, "From Wonso Pond");

3- "Kang Kyung-ae" (entry in the Literature Translation Institute of Korea, Seoul; and used many pre-2010s publications);

4- "Kang Gyeong-ae" (some references made in South Korea since the 2000s).

5- "Kang Kyeong-ae" (the GoodReads entry; first used (?) in a 2018 book).

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The first is standard in English international academia.

The second is a simplification of the first system, formerly used as quasi-standard in South Korea and still used today in North Korea.

The third is idiosyncratic, outside a specific romanization system -- but there must be a reason the Literature Translation Institute chooses to use it, in addition to many books/references in at least the 1990s-2010s period.

The fourth is the post-2000 official South Korean government romanization system.

The GoodReads entry as it stands using the fifth. This may be from the influence of a 2018-published book ("Underground Village"), the publishes of which had heavy ties to South Korea and show influence of that fourth system.

--> If the quasi-official Literature Translation Institute should be used as a source, the name ought to be rendered "KANG KYUNG-AE."

This all-over-the-place romanization has also yielded a wide scattering of GR entries for this same person; see point-2:

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(2.) COMBINE. All six of these are the same person (d.1944) (there may be others I didn't find):

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

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