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Assistance request for Yeonguijeong list

I'm currently trying to finish the unfinished (and erroneous) list on Yeonguijeong (the Chief State Councilor of the Joseon state) on User:00101984hjw/sandbox. However, the list is huge, with over 170 total individual officeholders serving over a period of almost 500 years. While any form of constructive edits or suggestions for improval will be greatly appreciated I'd like to ask help with these two things specifically:

1. Portraits. While very few royal portraits of Joseon-era monarchs (or historic Korean monarchs in general) exist to this day (many were lost in the 1954 Busan Yongdusan fires), apparently a lot of portraits of high-ranking officeholders and scholars still do exist. I'd really appreciate if someone could find portraits of any of these figures on the list who don't currently have a portrait on commons.

2. References & Dates. While primary sources (most notably the Veritable Records) detail on exact dates these figures were appointed and discharged from office these dates use a separate calendar system from Gregorian (see WP:JG and User:00101984hjw/Korean Calendar Conversion). While Namuwiki has Gregorian dates for most of these figures the website itself is a WP:UCG which should not be used as a cited source per WP:KO/RS. Therefore, if there are any secondary sources which provide exact Gregorian dates of any of these figures' date of appointment or resignation I'd be very grateful if anyone could find them. -- 00101984hjw (talk) 04:39, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Update on date issue: it appears that (at least according to what I've researched for the past few days) that the lunisolar dates provided on the sillok.history.go.kr website use a consistent calendar which can be accurately converted into Gregorian using online converter tools (https://astro.kasi.re.kr/life/pageView/8). That being said I'll just go ahead and use the tools for date conversion for now. It provides both Julian and Gregorian. -- 00101984hjw (talk) 21:17, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

Please find and add sources to this stub. It's been unsourced for 15 years. Bearian (talk) 01:48, 13 January 2025 (UTC)