Web resources on Korea

Useful freely available web resources on Korea.

Research guides

Committee on Korean Materials (CKM): Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL)

Reference works

• The World Factbook (CIA) North Korea Profile
• The World Factbook (CIA)  South Korea Profile
• 국가지식포털[Korea Knowledge Portal]
• The National Digital Library (Dibrary)
• KOREA.net  [Gateway to Korea]

Encyclopedias

• Doopedia (두산세계대백과사전)
• 한국민족문화대백과사전 (Encyclopedia of Korean Culture)

Bibliographies and indexes

• Korea Citation Index (한국학술지인용색인)
• RISS (한구교육학술정보원)
• Koris: 한구 고적종합목록시스템 (국립중앙도서관)
• 한국잡지정보관 Korean Magazine Museum Online (한국잡지협회)
• 近代朝鮮関係書籍データベース (東京大学東洋文化研究所)

Statistics

• KOSIS  [Korean Statistical Information Services]
• Bank of Korea

News/Newspapers

• Newspaper Archives Duke University Library’s site provides coverage of newspapers available in various databases.
• Korean News Sources
• Korean Newspaper Archives The National Library Korea provides a platform to search full-text articles published from the 19th century to 1955 in over 70 Korean newspapers including English and Japanese titles.

Digital-texts

• DB of Korean Classics (한국고전번역원)
• 朝鮮王朝実録 (국사편찬워원회)
• 朝鮮王朝実録 (奎章閣)
• 朝鮮王朝実録 (東京大学東洋文化研究所)
• 承政院日記 (국사편찬워원회)

History

• 한국역사정보통합시스템   (국사편찬워원회)
• 한국역사데이터베이스   (국사편찬워원회)   Korean History Database
• 奎章閣韓国学研究院
• 장서각디지털아카이브 (한국학중앙연구원)

Law and politics

Supreme Court of Korea

Literature

Korean Literature in Translation (Literature Translation Institute of Korea)

Film Studies

Korea Film Archive

Religion

한국경학자료시스템: Korean Study of Confucian Classics