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Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

 

Korean Studies

Last updated December 2021

For a more comprehensive list and descriptions of electronic and print resources for research in Korean studies please visit the Cambridge University Library's Korean Department web page.

 

SUBSCRIPTION-BASED ONLINE RESOURCES
accessible via the Cambridge University Library's Electronic Resources site

 

DBpia (part of Nurimedia - Collective Subscription of Korean e-resources) 
provides full text databases including more than one million articles from about 2,000 Korean scholarly journals in 12 different fields of society, literature, economics & business, medical science, humanities, theology, law & administration, arts, engineering, natural science, and education. All the back issues of each journal title are available and title, author, keyword, journal title and publisher searchable. See also the video DBpia User Guide in English.

E-Korean Database Service

 KCI Korea Citation Index (within Web of Science)
This collaboration with the National Research Foundation of Korea provides access to research and view critically important regional content with international impact. Get a comprehensive picture of the influences and drivers of regional research:

  • Approximately 2,000 scholarly journals (over 1,500 new to the Web of Science)
  • Mixture of open-access and subscription titles
  • Has the same feature set as Web of Science source record databases
  • Simplified discovery process for local information in a regional database
  • An easy search experience with local language interface
  • Free of charge to existing Web of Science subscribers (Cambridge University Library)

Korean History Culture Series

Korean Open Access Journal

KRpia (Nurimedia)

National Library of Korea Digitized Materials
The Library provides digitization services for some of the materials held by the NLK, including old and rare documents such as valuable materials and single copies, and the materials for which five years have passed since the dates of their publication. Accessing its resources is restricted to 'Partner libraries' / '협약도서관' and may be viewed on dedicated PCs in the FAMES library and in the UL's Japanese and Korean office ONLY. Please contact korean@lib.cam.ac.uk for more information.

Naver Digital News Archive
Provides free digital access to news archive services for four major newspapers in Korea :(Tonga Ilbo (東亞日報) 1920-1999; Hankyoreh 1988-1999; Kyŏnghyang Sinmun (京鄕新聞) 1946-1999; Maeil Kyŏngje (每日經濟) 1966-1999). Enables users to perform searches in a wide range of categories according to subjects and document types, dates, keywords etc. The platform offers experience similar to reading the original newspaper.

 

LIBRARY CATALOGUES

British Library Korean Collections
Holds over 10,000 monographs, 40 manuscripts, and over 200 current serials from South and North Korea. The newspapers Tonga Ilbo and Minju Choson are taken, and there is an extensive collection of microfilmed newspapers from North and South Korea

Harvard University Library / Research Guide for Korean Studies

KORCIS
KORCIS is a union catalog of Korean rare books (and manuscripts), which includes records from 51 Korean institutions and 32 foreign institutions (as of March 2010). It has over 420 thousand bibliographic records and provides access to the full-text of over 36 thousand items. Search by title, keyword, author, and publisher.

Korean National Digital Library (국가전자도서관)

National Assembly Library (국회도서관)
This online catalog provides bibliographic information for books, multimedia resources, periodicals, newspapers and other resources housed in the National Assembly Library of Korea. Users can search through more than 25 databases of government publications, documents issued by the National Assembly, academic journals published since 1910, theses and dissertations since 1945, rare books, and other collections. Full-text access only in Korea.

National Library of Korea (국립중앙도서관) and its Digital Library (국립중앙도서관 전자도서관)
This online catalogue allows users not only to perform a general search but also to browse library materials by subject. The library resources include books, monographs, periodicals, theses and dissertations, academic journals, and rare books. Full-text access only in Korea.

Oxford University Oriental Institute Library (Bodleian Libraries)

RISS
Korean Union catalog of books, journals, periodical articles, and theses for Korean university libraries.

School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS) Korean Collections
The Library holds some 80,000 monographs for Korean studies including publications from North Korea and official reports produced by the Governor-General of Korea. In addition, there are some 400 Korean language periodicals, some 300 western language periodicals, and over 400 audio-visual materials for teaching and research in Korean studies.

WorldCat
Union catalog of records of any type of material (books, periodicals, scores, films, recordings, etc.) catalogued by over 41,000 OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) member libraries, primarily but not exclusively, from libraries in the United States, but extending to 82 other nations. To view the interface in Korean, please click on the Korean-language display option 한국어 at the bottom of the screen. RAVEN password is required to use this database outside the Cambridge domain.

Yale University Library / Korean Studies

 

KOREAN ROMANIZATION

 

K-Romanizer
Developed by Hyoungbae Lee (Princeton University Library). A stand-alone executable application, and no installation is required. Can be used in conjunction with any Windows application. Manual in PDF is provided on webpage with shortcut keys. 

Korean Romanization Converter
This tool converts Hangul alphabet into Roman alphabet. It works for both the Revised Romanization of Korean and the McCune-Reischauer Romanization system.

LC (Library of Congress) and ALA (American Library Association) Romanization Table for Korean
Detailed explanation of the guidelines that many libraries use to romanize Korean works for cataloguing purposes.

 

FREE USEFUL ONLINE RESOURCES

Glossary of Korean Studies (한국학영문용어/용례사전)
Korean dictionary.

KINDS (Korea Integrated News Database)
Articles since 1990 are searchable. PDF pages of Kyǒnghyang SinmunTonga IlboSǒul Sinmun, and Han'guk Ilbo from 1960 to 1989 can be browsed by date. Articles from old newspapers (1896-) are also searchable and browsable by date. Includes popular daily newspapers (national and regional), and also weekly, monthly magazines, internet newspapers, specialist newspapers and TV stations. Free service.

Korea.net - Gateway to Korea
English-language information on Korea created by the Korean Information Service. Provides information under categories, such as news, government, economy and culture.

Korea.Web
Created by Frank Hoffmann. Links to government core institutions for Korean studies. Useful as a subject guide. Also a good place to find a list of Koreanists, Internet discussion list of Korean studies, and to search for academic positions.

Naver dictionaries
Chinese-Korean/Korean-Chinese; Japanese-korean/Korean-Japanese; English-Korean/Korean-English etc. Also includes character recognition.

Naver News Library
Provides free digital access to news archive services for four major newspapers in Korea :(Tonga Ilbo (東亞日報) 1920-1999; Hankyoreh 1988-1999; Kyŏnghyang Sinmun (京鄕新聞) 1946-1999; Maeil Kyŏngje (每日經濟) 1966-1999). Enables users to perform searches in a wide range of categories according to subjects and document types, dates, keywords etc.. The platform offers experience similar to reading the original newspaper.