The Korean edition of Wikipedia was launched in the autumn of 2002, and was written mainly by volunteer editors in South Korea. It grew steadily in the 2000s and 2010s, though more slowly than editions for some other large languages, partly because major Korean web portals provided their own user-generated encyclopedias, which competed for contributors. It now contains hundreds of thousands of articles. It uses the Korean alphabet Hangul, with Hanja shown for some words, and it covers many topics of Korean history, culture and popular culture, including K-pop.
Before and after
- 24 August 2002Publication of Estonian Wikipedia
- 20 September 2002Release of Tor
- October 2002Release of Chinese Wikipedia
- from October 2002 to January 2003Effacer le tableau
- 11 October 2002Release of Korean Wikipedia
- 26 October 2002Moscow theater hostage crisis
- 26 October 2002Release of Malay Wikipedia
- 29 October 2002Release of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
- 31 October 2002Discovery of Arche
More in Science & technology
- 1964Discovery of rutherfordium
- 18 February 1970Discovery of dubnium
- July 1974Discovery of seaborgium
- 1976Discovery of bohrium
- 29 August 1982Discovery of meitnerium
- 1984Discovery of hassium
The era
This moment belongs to the Contemporary world (1945 CE to today), the world since 1945. You can also browse everything in the 21st century.