As mentioned to Gary in his note about receiving 603 (KBS 2 Seoul), I mentioned
that 603 is not in Namyang-eup. I often see this very outdated information in
station databases, especially those which are run by the older folks in the
hobby (no offense, of course!!!) and never blame any DXer for using the
locations or old city names that I too often see in station databases. So just
a note on some of these stations and Korean locations and proper Romanization -
those who edit these guides and want them up-to-date for Korean stations, just
let me know and I'll fix all your errors so they're up to date and reflect
proper spelling and locations, as many new cities are built in Korea every year
and old villages are absorbed into suburbs regularly.
Here is the original message I sent to the totally-innocent Gary but decided it
was better sent to those who have the power to change their station guides as a
benefit to everyone who uses them:
About 603, it is in Songsan-myeon, a different administrative division of
Hwaseong, while neighbouring 1134 is just down the highway in Mado-myeon, also
part of Hwaseong. There are no tower sites in Namyang (it's all part of the
city of Hwaseong and Koreans would call all those locations "Hwaseong" if
talking to another person or describing where they reside), and while it is
awfully close to both tower sites, I'm not sure who has listed it as such or
perhaps if many years ago there was a consolidation, though it would be quite
highly unlikely for an -eup (town) to downgrade its land to a -myeon (rural
township). Hwaseong is the largest city in the country I believe, and "city" in
China and Korea is more like "county" in North America actually, so there are
some differences when reporting locations to start with.
Of course, this is more a note to those who maintain the station databases with
these old village names that are sometimes still correct, but that nobody in
Korea uses anymore in these modern times, especially given the fact many of
them have been entirely overtaken by urban and suburban sprawl. I believe 711
is still refered to as "Sorae," which is another instance of this, perhaps 20
years before it became a highly urbanized area - the village is a neighbourhood
of Incheon (a city of 3 million, part of the Seoul metro area of 19 million)
and is full of apartment high-rises and lost its name many years ago, only
living on through the names of local parks, apartments, and a local subway
station).
I also see a lot of the radio databases still using the now-ancient pre-2000
Romanization such as Cheju (Jeju) and Taegu (Daegu), etc., a system that only
North Korea still uses. But I digress :-). I realize I am younger and that for
many DXers, these old names are names that existed through much of your
lifetimes and that 2000 is still rather recent - for myself as well, in fact.
I made sure to fix all such instances with Bruce in the PAL guide anyway and
anyone else who runs databases with Korean stations, I'd be more than happy to
sift through your listings and correct these decades-old Romanizations and
non-existent locations for better accuracy. After all, when you want to find
more information about a location, it's hard to Google it when your original
data is misspelled or uses old tower sites that have long been taken down.
As long as I'm in the position to help, I'd be happy to! (Just don't ask for
help with the Chinese stations, because that is one mess I will not touch,
though I will happily listen to station IDs and report back on them as I
regularly do for some in Europe these days).
-Chris Kadlec
Seoul AM Radio Listening Guide
http://www.beaglebass.com/dx/seoul/
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