E-Korean Studies is a cross-database search interface of the following 9 major Korean electronic
databases covering various disciplines including arts and humanities, social sciences, medical
sciences. The content materials cover various sources from monographs, periodicals, newspapers,
dissertations and research reports, law, classical literature, to dictionaries and video lectures.
Each of the databases can also be accessed and searched separately.
KISS(Korean Studies Information Service
- Full text database of Korean scholarly journal articles, university
publications and research papers published by over 1,200 research institutions in Korea . The DB
includes 800,000 full-text articles and it covers most of subject areas published since 1945.
Requirement of the system: Acrobat Reader(more than 4.0)
KSI e-book(Monograph and e-book)
- provides 4,500 full-text e-books in humanities, social sciences,
natural and medical science, arts and physical education, etc.
KoreaA2Z(Korean Studies DB Contents)
- KoreaA2Z is a database of 110 academic contents in general reference,
journalism, history, geography, law, religion, philosophy, traditional culture, natural science,
and oriental medicine.
Digital Culture Art Course
- As a subset of KoreaA2Z, it provides VOD lectures presented by
scholars and specialists in the subject areas containing 70 titles for 923 courses.
Korean History & Culture Research
- Korean History & Culture Research Database is a database of
excavation reports and provides a full-text articles in history, archeology, anthropology,
literature, and folklore in 3,000 volumes from 76 orgarnizations.
History Culture Series
- History Culture Series is a multimedia contents database dedicated to
Korean history and culture. The database covers subjects such as archeology, Korean history, and
art history in 17 titles.
LawnB(Legal Information Service)
- LawnB is a legal information service that provides a collection of
South Korean legal materials on-line including law information, judicial precedent, administration
data, laywer and law firm information, etc.
Nurimedia Trial Databases
- Full text database including over 709 Korean Academic Scholarly
Journal titles. It also downloadable and searchable by serial title, author, publisher and keyword
and journal titles are also arranged by 11 subject categories.
- KRpia provides 133 titles of reference contents in architecture,
history, literature, folklore, art and culture, religion, classics, oriental medicine, etc.
Free Online Databases
Naver News Library
- Naver News Library is a full-text Korean newspaper article database
containing the following four major newspapers:
Tonga ilbo東亞日報 = Dong-A ilbo :
Kyŏnghyang sinmun 京鄕新聞 = Kyunghyang
Shinmun : 1946-1999
Maeil kyŏngje sinmun每日經濟新聞 = Maeil
Business Newspaper : 1966-1999
Han’gyŏre 한겨레 = The Hankyoreh :
Korea Knowledge Portal (국가지식 포털)
- The official gateway to South Korean government documents operated by
the Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and Promotion (한국정보문화진흥원). This full-text database links
eight national institutes and is searchable by keyword, author, publisher, subject, format,
language, and date.
Academy of Korean Studies
- The Academy of Korean Studies was established in 1978 to revitalize
the field of Korean Studies by conducting in-depth research and offering education on related
subjects. Activities by AKS range from conducting research on Korean culture from both humanities
and social science perspectives to educating and training researchers and higher education
professionals, collecting, researching, translating and publishing Korean classics, and publishing
and disseminating research results in the Korean Studies field.
Knowledgebase of Korean Studies (디지털 한국학)
- This encyclopedic online database was originally developed by the
Academy of Korean Studies and holds much information about Korean art, culture, folklore, history,
literature, philosophy, and religion. Search by keyword and browse by subject.
Korean History Online (한국역사정보통합시스템)
- This resource is an integrated search service for history databases
from 19 Korean institutions:National Institute of Korean History(국사편찬위원회),Kyujanggak
(규장각),Jongyŏnggak (존경각),Munchŏn’gak (문천각),the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs of the
Republic of Korea(국가보훈처),Independence Hall of Korea(독립기념관),Academia Coreana(명지대학교 국제한국학 연구소),Korean
Classics Research Institute (민족문화추진회),the Korea Democracy Foundation(민주화운동 기념사업회),the War Memorial
of Korea(전쟁기념사업회),the Korean Studies Advancement Center(한국국학진흥원),Korean Women’s Development
Institute(한국여성개발원),the Academy of Korean Studies(한국학중앙연구원).
DB of Korean historical figures (한국역대인물종합정보시스템)
- A comprehensive database of more than 16,000 historic Korean figures
from ancient to modern developed by the Academy of Korean Studies (한국학중앙연구원) and the Korea Agency
for Digital Opportunity and Promotion (한국정보문화진흥원). It provides information the origins and history
of Korean family names and the detailed lists of those who passed the official exams of the Chosŏn
dynasty (국조문과방목. 무과방목, 사마방목, 잡과방목). This database is searchable by keyword, name, and family