[Wikimedia-KR] Fwd: OFFLIST: Re: [Internal-l] Some updates from South Korea

Hi, my fellow Wikimedians! I have some updates from South Korea. Last January, some of Wikipedians consulted the Institute of Korean Language, an agency of Korean government. The meeting was quite successful, more than 10 Wikipedians were there and I heard they will release their Korean dictionary, the most authorative dictionary of Korean Language, as far as I know, under a free license such as cc-by or cc-by-sa in the end of this year. Korean Wikipedians will have editathons in regular basis at the National Library of Korea. They will start the first meeting at the Library on Feb.. The library requested to help to hold Wikipedia Lecture series at the Library. The lecture is a part of adult education. They proposed two series of lectures, one for young adults in the first half of this year and another one for seniors int the later half of the year. First lectures will begin in April. The National Library of Korea is a national model of libraries in Korea. I hope the lectures on Wikipedia would be propagated to all libraries over the country. To found the local chapter, Korean Wikipedians will meet and nominate board members for provisional committee of the local chapter at March 10, in Seoul. I hope interested pesonnels and institutions would provide aids for founding activity. Google Korea will sponsor meeting places for the coming meetings. Cheers, RYU Cheol, Korean Wikipedia Editor