South Korea

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Other Names & Abbreviations (past/present): Korea, Republic of; Taehan-min'guk; ROK.
Status: Republic
Capital: Seoul
Internet Code: KR

Art and Culture

• The Arts of Korea Gallery, NY Metropolitan (New York)

  [The first permanent gallery dedicated to the display of the arts of Korea at The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened to the public on June 9, 1998 signaling the successful completion of an ambitious 30-year plan for the establishment of major new galleries of Asian art and the enrichment of the Museum's Asian collections. The Arts of Korea Gallery will display, on a rotating and often thematic basis, the Metropolitan's collection of Korean painting, ceramics, sculpture, metalwork, and lacquerware spanning 1,500 years]

• Click Korea: Access to Korean Arts and Culture (Seoul, Korea)

  [An online resource developed by the Korea Foundation to meet the need for broader access to information about Korean Arts and Culture]

• Korean Dance Academy (Los Angeles, California)
• Wonkwang University Museum (Iksan, Korea)

  [Established in 1968, The Wonkwang University Museum was reopened in 1987 in a 6,054m2 building (one basement and four floors). The Museum, the largest in scale in the nation, has a wide range of relics including 70 items of the prehistoric age, and a Paekche Windbell. The Museum has 8,581 items in its collection]

• Korean American Museum of Art and Cultural Center in Los Angeles (anet.net, USA)

  [Contents: About KOMA, Virtual Gallery, Koreatown in Los Angeles, Special Events, Membership, Research & Cultural Library]

• Seoul Focus (Seoul, Korea)

  [Seoul city hall website, strong for links to arts and culture in and around Seoul]

  Asia

• East & Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources (CA, USA)

  [Annotated directory of resources for the political units of East Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, and Mongolia) and Southeast Asia (Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam), Asian Americans, and current hot topics such as the North Korean nuclear crisis.]

• Dr. Roubini's Asia Crisis Homepage (New York, USA)

  [Dr. Nouriel Roubini, Associate Professor of Economics and International business at the Stern School of Business of New York University, maintains an extensive homepage on the Asian economic crisis, as a part of his MBA Macroeconomics Course Page. It is one of the most extensive and comprehensive collection of data, analyses and hyperlinks on the subject.]

• Age of Asia: Resources for Research (Duke Univ., USA)

  [A web site for a course taught in Duke University's Fuqua School of Business called Age of Asia. They only refer to English language sites and are organized with the students research project in mind. The site contains:Course Material; Country Descriptions (EIU Intelligence Reports and the CIA Factbook); Guide to Selected Resources on Asia in the Fuqua Library (business periodicals, books, company directories, videotapes, electronic reference sources, and online sources of business information on Asia); Book and Periodical Databases; Links to newspapers from Asian Countries; Electronic Databases; Government Sources (United States, International and foreign); Information by Countries (Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Macau, Malaysia, Myanmar, North Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam); Asian sources by topics (Economic crisis, women in the workplace, government & industry).]

• Asian DOC (Datebase-Online-Community) Electronic Newsletter

  [Its purpose is to support scholars, librarians, and researchers world-wide who are developing text or image databases in the various fields of Asian/EurAsian Studies or who are incorporating materials in Asian languages into larger databases, and to promote better communication among them. To be published quarterly (March, June, September, December) on the WWW.]

• United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

  [This page contains links on: * Information technology in the public sector; * Information technology management in general. Target audience: * Persons creating national and organization wide IT policies and strategies, especially in * ESCAP member and associate member governments, i.e. the Asia and Pacific region.]

  Economy

• Korea Economic Institute of America

  [A private nonprofit organization located in Washington, DC]

  Education

• Korea National Library

  [Offers online search of hundred thousands of Korean books and dissertations. Access to abstracts of dissertations submitted since 1995, and full-text articles from Korean journals as well as texts of Korean classics (at the moment 50 books) downloaded (as graphics ".tif" files). Korean language interface]

• Online Catalog of Korean Books at U.C.Berkeley (U.California, Berkeley, USA)

  [Over 20 web pages (most of them in both English and Korean), including:Reference books, Newspapers and other serial materials, Tan'gun -related materials as well as web pages on Sijo, classical poetry widely practiced during Choson Kingdom. Also, the site offers, on monthly basis, a list of latest acquisitions since May 1996]

• Big List of Korean Universities (Duke U., USA)

  [Not all universities in Korea have their own websites. Some institutions, while displaying several homepages of their component departments, are still lacking main official entry homepages. In this list only those with the official main gateway homepages are hyperlinked]

  Environment

• The Nautilus Institute(USA)

  [The Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development is a policy-oriented research and consulting organization. Nautilus promotes international cooperation for security and ecologically sustainable development. Programs embrace both global and regional issues, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region]

  History

• Korea: States of War(USA)

  [CNNin Special Feature, June 13, 2000; Korea at 50. The section called Related Sites displays a collection of useful sites that includes this South Korea WWW Virtual Library]

• Korean History: A Bibliography(USA)

  [This bibliography covers not only political, diplomatic, and economic history, but also historical linguistics, art history, literature, philosophy and religion, and overseas Koreans. Chronologically, coverage concludes in the 1960s. For studies of South Korea's politics and economy, 1961 is the stopping point; for South Korean foreign relations, coverage continues through the 1965 treaty with Japan and the Vietnam War. Coverage of North Korea continues into the late 1960s.]

• Korea Yesterday(USA)

  [Korea has a long and rich history. It was a unified nation for 1300 years. At a time when Europe was declining into the contentious "Dark Ages" of the Medieval period after the fall of the Roman Empire, Korea was creating new art, architecture, literature, science, and religion, and developing a strong central government that allowed for long periods of peace and prosperity. The Choson dynasty of Korea, which lasted over 500 years, is one of the world's longest lasting and most stable royal lines. Their palace, Kyong-Bok, was built in 1394 at Seoul]

• Topics in Korean History (U.Calif.,Berkeley,USA)

  [Ancient History (pre-918 A.D.), Koryo Dynasty (918-1392), Choson Dynasty (1392-1910), Colonial Period (1910-1945), Liberation and the Korean War (1945-1953), Contemporary Korea (post-1953)]

• 2000 - 2003: Korean War Plus 50 (Duke U, USA)

  [The Korean War, often called the Forgotten War, raged across the Korean peninsula for three years, from June 25, 1950 when the war broke out to July 27, 1953 when the armistice was signed. The three-year period 2000 - 2003 will mark the 50th anniversaries of many historical events of this war. This website is intended as a central registry for many commemorative activities that will begin on June 25, 2000 and onward. There already exist many excellent sites that house chronicles of the War as well as directories of veteran's groups worldwide and we do not intend to duplicate these. This site will list annotated schedule of events and announcements, with a list of links to sources of related information]

• Korean War Educator

  Homepage of the Korean War Educator Foundation

• Korean War Children's Museum

  Homepage of the Korean War Children's Museum, Bellingham, Washington

  Information Networking

• SKAS Directory of Korea-related Think Tanks
• SKAS eLibrary
• South Korea: Encyclopedia of the Nations
• Korea Net

  [The Korean Information Service(KOIS) is running a four-month trial service of the portal site Korea.net, starting on September I, 1999. It is a portal site providing English language information on Korea]

• South Korea - Library of Congress Country Study
• KAWWW (www.skas.org, USA)

  [Directory of the Korean-American Web sites in North America; contains by sections Online Newsletters, Online Information Sites, Organizations, Individual Homepages, Korean Student Associations, Across the Pacific, Across the Atlantic and Korean Studies Programs]

• Embassy of South Korea in USA (Korean Embassy in USA, USA)

  [Site opened in Nov 1996. Contents: Embassy and Consulates; Korean Information Center; General Information about Korea; Business in Korea; Media Information; ROK-US Relations; Travel Information; Related Web Sites]

• South Korean Consulate, Toronto, Canada (Korean Consulate, Canada)

  [information regarding travel to Korea, working visas, business opportunities and cultural events in Canada and Korea. A graphics-intensive site.]

  Intercultural Relations

• Korean-American Historical Society (KAHS) (Seattle, WA)

  [To collect, maintain, and transmit the heritage and achievements of Koreans in the US and abroad]

• Society of Korean-American Scholars (SKAS) (SKAS, USA)

  [SKAS is a private, nonprofit and nonpartisan organization dedicated to the promotion of scholarship and fellowship among its members. It also seeks to foster leadership among young Korean-Americans and engender intellectual exchanges within the Korean-American community.]

• Information Exchange for Korean-American Scholars (IEKAS) (SKAS, USA)

  [News, opinions, announcements and other exchanges among Korean-American scholars. IEKAS is a weekly electronic publication of the Society of Korean-American Scholars (SKAS)]

• Korean- American Forum (KAF) (SKAS, USA)

  [The Korean-American Forum is an edited, moderated and filtered opinion forum. It is intended to carry opinions and essays that would contribute toward uplifting the quality and cultural standard of the worldwide Korean communities.]

• Korea Society (NY, USA)

  [Dedicated to the promotion of greater awareness, understanding and cooperation between the United States and Korea.]

• HAN: Korean Residents in Japan (www.asahi-net.or.jp,Japan)

  [HAN is a page provided to promote a better understanding of Koreans in Japan]

• Coverage of Korea in American Textbooks and References (Brigham Young U., USA)

  [Research into how Korea is portaryed in textbooks and reference works]

  Korean American Periodicals

• KoreAm (Gardena, CA)

  [Monthly, to provide a forum for English-speaking Korean Americans]

• KAHS Occasional Papers (Seattle, WA)

  [Yearly, History of Korean-American community]

• Korean Quarterly(Minnesota)

  [Korean Quarterly is published four times a year by the Korean Quarterly, Inc., a volunteer non-profit organization promoting Korean American people, issues, and culture to unite and support the Korean American community, including first and second generation Korean Americans, adopted Korean and their families, and intercultural/interracial Korean American families]

• US-Korea Review

  [Bimonthly published by the Korea Society]

  Korean Studies

• Hoffmann's Korean Studies Portal

  [Academic Koreaan Studies portal for the web, maintained by Frank Hoffmann]

• INTERNET RESOURCES SUBJECT GUIDES (Univ of Hawaii)

  [Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL), Korean Materials Committee project]

• Korean Studies Pages (Harvard Univ., USA)

  [Contents: Korea Institute at Harvard U. (WWW & Gopher), Koreanists, Korea WWW Links, Korean Newspapers, etc., Other Newspapers & Journals, Korean Computing & Tools, Scholarships & Jobs, Library Gateway, Miscellany]

• The Korea Institute (Harvard U,USA)

  [About the Korea Institute * Programs of the Institute (affiliations; seminars, including Korea Colloquium, Korea Current Affairs Forum; Harvard scholarships; publications) * Schedule of Events Sponsored by the Institute Korean Studies at Harvard (academic programs; courses on Korea, Korean collection of the Harvard-Yenching Library, being revised) * links to other sites]

• Association for Korean Studies in Europe (U of Durham, England)

  [ Council members, Constitution, past and future conferences, publications, Newsletters, and useful links]

• East Asian Libraries Cooperative WWW - Korean Studies (Ohio State U.USA)
• U of Hawaii Korean Studies Resources
• UC-Berkeley, Center for Korean Studies
• UC-San Diego, Korea-Pacific Program
• East Asian Departments in US and Canada
• Indiana University --East Asian Studies Center
• U of Kansas Center for East Asian Studies

  Language and Literature

  Law

• Korean Law Research Resources (Southern Illinois Univ Law School)

  Media

• Coree du Sud (www.ina.fr, France)

  [Articles from the French newspaper "Le Monde Diplomatique"]

• The Korea Herald News ( Korea)

  [Covers: Local News, Culture/Lifestyle,Sports, Business/Finance, Editorial/Opinion. Offers excellent keyword search]

  Politics and Public Policies

• Selected Bibliography on Korean Unification (ICKS and SKAS, USA)
• Managing Change on the Korean Peninsula, a Council on Foreign Relations Report (Council on Foreign Relations, USA)

  [Report of An Independent Task Force, 1998]

• CSPP Analytic Reports about Korea (U of Glasgow, Center for Studies in Public Policy, UK)

  [Democratization is a global phenomenon, and the Republic of Korea is a major Asian example of abrupt change from an authoritarian to a democratic regime. Korea with a population of 44 million, is the first Asian tiger to join OECD and a Gross Domestic Product larger than ten of the 15 states in the European Union. Its political weaknesses created the biggest financial crisis in Asian and IMF history and a crisis of confidence in government]

• KoreanPolitics.com (KoreanPolitics.com, USA)

  [Information about South Korean politics including Government, National Assembly, Election, Political Statistics etc.]

  Public Health

• Public Health: South Korea

  [A section of the WWW Virtual Library, Asian Studies, Public Health]

  Religion

• South Korea - Culture, History, and Religion

  [An elegant and factual K-12 site launched 3 May 1999 by Instructional Technology Center, Granite School District, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Site contents: Introduction; History; Religion; Kyongju: Ancient Silla Kingdom Capital; Seoul: Modern Capital of Korea; Economics; Geography; Teacher Activities; Credits.]

• Korean Buddhism WWW Virtual Library (www2.gol.com,Japan)

  [General Resources & Information; Documents & Writings; Projects; Monasteries, Teaching & Practice Centers; Academic (Graduate Level) Studies Opportunities; Publications]

  Science, Technology and Environmewnt

• Annotated Chronology of Korea's Science and Technology
• The Korean-American Science and Technology News (KASTN) (SKAS, USA)

  [A weekly online newsletter carrying news and commentaries of scientific, technological, as well as socio-economic issues for the Korean-American community. Currently KASTN is read by approximately 17,000 professionals worldwide, especially in North America, East and Southeast Asia and Western Europe.]

• Big List of Korean Research Institutes (Duke U., USA)

  [Homepages of Research Institutes in Korea are listed here. Many institutes have several different URLs for their components departments. Only the main gateway homepages are included here for a quick access]

• South Korea (www.eia.doe.gov, USA)

  [Energy country analysis briefs]

  Societies

• KOREA.COM Services (korea.com,USA)

  [English and Hangul info system covering: Korean Servers, Business Directory, Geography, Weather, The People, Language, The National Flag, The National Anthem, Clothing, Housing, Food, Ceremonies, Arts, Holidays, Money Matters, Korea Time, Transportation, Cooking, Tae Kwon Do, Today's Korea]

  Tourism

• Cheju Island (U of Oregon, USA)

On October 3, 1997, this website was transferred from the Australian National University facility to that of SKAS, USA. Readers are invited to contact the maintainer of this site for any additions, deletions, corrections, suggestions and comments. Mail to myhan@phy.duke.edu.

Maintainer: Dr. M. Y. Han (myhan@phy.duke.edu )

Copyright 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 by Dr. T.Matthew Ciolek. From October 1997, Copyright by Dr. M. Y. Han. This Web page may be linked to any other Web pages. Contents may not be altered.

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