Korean Studies

Reference resources at Duke

• Bibliographies
• Encyclopedias
• Dictionaries
• Yearbooks

Other useful research guides to Korean Studies

• A Country Study: South Korea by the Library of Congress
• A Country Study: North Korea by the Library of Congress

This Country Studies presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of South Korea and North Korea. The online versions are available.

• Guide to LC Classification on Selected Korean Materials by UC Berkeley
• Guide to Subject Heading on Selected Korean Materials by UC Berkeley

It provides a good guide to the selected Korean Materials by LC Classification and Subject Heading, which are used by most research and academic libraries in the U.S. and several other countries.

• Basic Reference Tools on Korea by the University of Hawaii at Manoa

The reference tools included in this list are based mainly on ones held at the Korea Collection of the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM), which now contains about 1,100 reference titles. References in this list are organized by the types of reference tools and/or by the disciplinary subjects. Under each type and subject, references are sometimes grouped together when they represent similar types or subject matter.