Korean Language

1. KOSNET (Korean Language Study on the internet)

http://www.interedu.go.kr/

KOSNET is a website offering an educational space to learn the Korean language through the Internet. Since 1998, KOSNET has provided various learning programs considering levels of users’ Korean ability, a network to link educational institutes, and VOD services on Korean culture.

2. Declan’s Korean Language page

http://www.declan-software.com/korean.htm

This site provides good resources about Korean language including information about Hangul (Korean Langugage) itself, grammar, weekly vocabulary list that learners can easily follow, and links to related other sites for learning the language. It also contains links of Korean dictionaries and some information about Korean learning software.

3. An Introduction to Korean by J. David Eisenberg

http://langintro.com/kintro

A website which was made by a person who is actually interested in learning Korean language. It provides various methods to learn the language and memorize vocabulary, including some interactive quiz. It also has a tourism guides and photos of Korea.

Korean Study

1. Korean Foundation ( 한국 국제 교류 재단 )

http://www.kf.or.kr/index.jsp

This is an organization to promote Korean Studies all around the world, funded by the Korean government. This organization provides various supports for Korean Studies overseas, including fellowship and publication support, and many programs for cultural and personal exchanges. This foundation publishes several magazines and newsletters online as well as in-print. It also provides good Internet resources about Korean Studies such as a list and links of Korean Studies Centers over the world and conferences information.

2. Worldlinq, by Queens Library : http://www.worldlinq.org/

Established by Queens Library in NY. It provides great links about most of subjects from Literature, History, Law, and Reference material, to sports and entertainment in Korea.

3. Korea Institute at Harvard University : http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~korea/index.html

This institute at Harvard has a fame for its valuable resources and activities. Their site offers important information, i.e., Korean studies courses in 1998-1999, North American Korean Studies directory, Mailing list, Post Doc information, Graduate students conferences.  In addition, the site shows visiting scholars from other countries at Yenching Institute, one of the world famous Asian Studies institutes.

4. Center for Korean Studies in University of California at Berkeley  http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/

Originally part of a combined Center for Japanese and Korean Studies, a separate Center for Korean Studies was established in 1979 in recognition of Korea's growing importance in world affairs . The web sites provide information about various events, courses, Korean collections, publication, and links about Korea. Also includes very good Internet resources for Korean Studies: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/eastasian/korea.htm

5. Centre for Korean Research in University of British Columbia   http://www.iar.ubc.ca/centres/ckr

Center for Korean Research, the first of its kind in Canada, was established to carry out, co-ordinate, and facilitate research on Korea through multidisciplinary approaches since 1982. 

Korean History

1. National Institute for Korean History ( 국사편찬위원회 )

http://www.history.go.kr/front/introenglish/viewChairCommitteEn.jsp

The Institute of Korean History was established to contribute toward developing Korean national culture and overcoming the severance of the nation's history during the era of Japanese occupation. It was founded in 1946 as an independent official agency by the Republic of Korea. This website has an extensive database of Korean history covering from ancient time to contemporary history. Limited information in English and Japanese.

2. Korean History On-line ( 한국 역사 정보 통합 시스템 )

http://koreanhistory.or.kr/

Integrated digital library on Korean history, established by the following four research institutions: National Institute for Korean History ( 국사편찬위원회 ) ; Kujanggak in Seoul National University ( 서울대학교 규장각 ) ; Korean Classics Research Institute ( 민족문화추진회 ) ; Academy of Korean Studies ( 정신문화연구원 ) .

3. Genealogy Database System  http://jokbo.skku.edu/ENG/index.jsp

Provides various search methods to obtain information on ancestral home, family title, and originator, including family title, name/nickname, national civil service examination records, official designations, year of birth, year of death, birth and death year according to sexagenary cycle, genealogy chart, etc. Produced by  the Jongyeonggak of the Academy of East Asian Studies, Sungkyunkwan University (成均館大學校 東亞洲學術院 尊經閣).

4. Korean History A Bibliography : http://www.hawaii.edu/korea/biblio/BiblioOpen.html

A comprehensive bibliography about Korean history compiled by Kenneth R. Robinson and maintained by The Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaii.

5. Korean Historical Connection in Hong-Ik University : http://www.hongik.ac.kr/~khc/khc-eng.htm

On-line searchable bibliographies written in Korean on Korean History; List of historical associations and their publications in Korea.

6. Korean War

Korean War Project: http://www.koreanwar.org/

Korean War 50th Anniversary Homepage: http://korea50.army.mil/

Literature, Art, and Culture

1.The National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts

http://www.ncktpa.go.kr/eng/index_eng.jsp

Includes educational information about Korean traditional music and other performing arts. One can actually listen the music with audio files. Also has academic information about traditional arts.

2. Korean Culture & Arts Foundation
http://www.kcaf.or.kr/kmain.htm
Includes cultural assets, traditional instruments, and copyright information, etc.

3. Korean Film Archive

http://www.koreafilm.org/main/main.asp

Comprehensive resources on Korean movies from 1919.

4. Universe in Universe, Worlds of ART

http://www.universes-in-universe.de/asia/kor/english.htm

Information and communication system on the visual arts of Africa, the Americas, Asia/Pacific. This site provide broad information about Korea with special focus on Art.

5. Bibliographical Database of Korean Literature Translated into English ( 한국 문학 영역 작품 서지 정보 데이터 베이스 )

http://www.kcaf.or.kr/trnsinfo/html/index.htm
Contains 1800 items of bibliographical information of Korean literature translated into English.

6. Korean Study of Confucian Classics  http://koco.skku.edu/ENG/index.jsp

A complete collection of Confucian classics with original texts, commentaries, and annotations by Korean scholars, etc. A 10 years’ effort of research scholars of  the Jongyeonggak of the Academy of East Asian Studies, Sungkyunkwan University (成均館大學校 東亞洲學術院 尊經閣).

Economics and Statistical Information

1.Korea National Statistical Office ( 통계청 )

http://www.nso.go.kr/eng2006/

The official web-pages for Korea National Statistical Office. Provided both in Korean and English. This site has statistical information in most of areas from statistical database, called KOSIS.

2. Statistical Information of Korea (Korean only)

http://www.stat.go.kr/

A synthetic web site for statistical information from all the Korean government agencies and ministries. It provides easier ways to search and understand statistical data through search engines designed only for statistics.

3. Center for Economic Information from Korea Development Institution (KDI 경제정보센터 )

http://epic.kdi.re.kr/index.jsp

The center provides up-to-date policy issue materials and a variety of publications released by various economy-related government ministries and agencies to the public.  The site includes Economic Bulletin with f ull text access to monthly publication from KDI since 1998 covering Korea's economic policy, trends, reviews and statistical information (English only) , E pic ( 경제 정책 정보 ) for s earchable bibliographic information on materials on economic issues and policies published by ministry and related agencies. Full text access to articles and reports (accessible from the CEI home page) , EpicPlus ( 경제 정보 플러스 ) of t he center's searchable database system in which subject directories is also available , Foreign news coverage for d aily foreign news digests on Korean economy (in English only), and Nation’s Economics( 나라경제 ) , the monthly magazine that has pdf files of articles from 1998 ( Korean only) .

4. SERI (Samsung Economic Research Institute), 삼성 경제 연구소

http://www.seriworld.org/

Bilingual web site from SERI presents full text contents of the weekly publication, Korean Economic Trends, Reports from SERI, news and market information free of charge.

Law Information

1. The Constitution of the Republic of Korea 대한민국 헌법   

http://www.oefre.unibe.ch/law/icl/ks00t ___.html

2. Supreme Court Library

http://library.scourt.go.kr/jsp/html/01_01.html

Professional Associations and Institutions

1. Academy of Korean Studies/ 한국 정신문화 연구원

http://www.aks.ac.kr/

2. Korean American Historical Society

http://www.kahs.org/

Founded in 1985, Korean American Historical Society (KAHS) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to enriching the collective memory of Korean Americans through collecting, maintaining, and transmitting the heritage and achievements of Koreans living in the United States and abroad. This society publishes an annual journal, Occasional Papers.

3. Korean National Commission for UNESCO

http://www.unesco.or.kr/eng

There is a Full-text database of the Korean Journal published by this institution.

4. Korean American Adoptee, Adoptive Family Network

http://www.kaanet.com/

KAAN is the Korean American Adoptees, Adoptive Parents and Korean Americans are involved in this organization, making it a most inclusive organization in the United States and Canada. This site has information about this organization, adoption and also provides some links about Korea. It also has links to search for birth family for adoptees.

5. European Korean Studies , The Association for Korean Studies in Europe

http://www.akse.uni-kiel.de/

6. Association for Asian Studies

http://www.aasianst.org/

North Korea , South Korea, and Unification

1. North Korea ? A Country Study, by Library of Congress

http://memory.loc.gov/frd/cs/kptoc.html

2. Korea Web Weekly

http://www.kimsoft.com/korea.htm

An independent, non-partisan web on all things Korean: history, culture, economy, politics and military, since 1995.

3. North Korea WWW Virtual Library

http://www.duke.edu/~myhan/s-nk.html

4. JOINS Pukhan Net

http://nk.joins.com

5. Ministry of Unification 통일부

http://www.unikorea.go.kr

Information on Unification issues and North Korea from the South Korean government’s view.

Digital Library for Korean Study

1. Digital Library of Korean Studies/ 한국학 전자도서관

http://lib.aks.ac.kr

This digital library was built by Korean Studies Information Center whose mission is to publish the most comprehensive encyclopedia for Korean Study, to develop a database for Korean Study materials and to digitize of such materials in order to establish better environment for Korean Study researcher around the world and to be the mainstay of the globalization of Korean Study. This database covers all the literature including old rare books ( 고문헌 ) and their catalogs, theses and dissertations, periodicals, non-book materials, as well as regular monograph materials. It also includes various kinds of databases such as historical people, folk culture encyclopedia, Chosun’ art works, and religion related information.

2. DBpia

http://www.dbpia.co.kr/

A search engine for 409 journals published in South Korea

Digital Library in General

1. The National Digital Library

http://www.dlibrary.go.kr/

The national digital library is the most inclusive service that one can retrieve bibliographic and full-text information from a vast database of all collections in 6 major libraries in Korea. It was built as a national level by the government’s efforts to improve national competitiveness in the knowledge-information society of this 21st century by providing needed information through on-line with enhancement and development of the sharing system in national information resources, based on the exemplary effect of information service system in the digital library. The participated major libraries in Korea are t he National Library of Korea, the National Assembly Library of Korea, Supreme Court Library, KISTI (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information), KERIS (Korea Education and Research Information Service), and Science Library of KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology).

2. The National Assembly Library

http://www.nanet.go.kr

Digital library for thesis and dissertations, academic journals, rare books, government publications, the legislative information, and etc. Users need to be a citizen of Korea. (ask Donghee for use)