*Korea Studies: Finding Web Resources

Similar to the Library of Congress in U.S., the National Assembly Library collects materials on humanities and social sciences, hearing data, standing committee data from major countries, and minutes issued by the U.S. Congress, as well as world country's constitution, statutes, and government publications

National library materials Integrated Search Service

Collections include: Thematic collection; Korea Newspaper Archive; Gazette Records related to overseas Korea; Open Access Korea National Repository; OASIS; East Asia Digital Library (EADL); and Korean memory

Koreanology library service

Includes Korean Studies Discussion List + (This FORUM serves as a passive archive of postings to the Korean Studies e-mail discussion list.

A portal which provides a variety of Korean arts and culture statistics.

A website that delivers economic statistics on the main sectors of the Korean Economy for policymakers and the public. It covers financial economic statistics, national account statistics and various business and consumer survey statistics. Search stat contains useful functions including calculation of rate fluctuations, chart and graph drawing, and data downloading.

Operated by the Korea Women’s Development Institute, this site provides integrated statistics related to gender as basic data for gender impact assessment and gender budgeting, and evaluating the efficient implementation of national policies for accomplishing gender equality. It provides not only national and regional gender statistics, but also global standardized information. It can be searched by theme, name, and topic.

A statistical information service portal operated by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs which provides a one-stop search database, including ‘a diversity of report-type basic statistics’, ‘reporting statistics’, ‘health/welfare related statistics produced by various institutes and ‘survey statistics’ generated by KIHASA.

Provides statistical data and surveys on media which includes media industry statistics, media directory, media survey, and media yearbook.
Korean Media Panel Survey KISDI developed statistical indicators that measure cross-media use behaviors of media content users in order to capture the current multi-media trend where media contents are accessible through various mediums.

Provides educational statistics on Korean pre-primary, primary, secondary, and higher education, employment status of higher education graduates, and lifelong education, as well as international education statistics.

KOSIS is the national statistical database, operated by Statistics Korea..This site provides Korean statistical information and data that is searchable by subject, institution, and name. It also includes online publications on Korean statistical information. Official statistics produced by over 120 statistical agencies covering more than 500 subject matters as well as the latest data on international finance and economy from international organizations (i.e. IMF, World Bank, OECD) are available on KOSIS.

Statistical information on small and medium Korean industries; the site is operated by the Korea Federation of Small and Medium Business (Kbiz).

Contains statistical data on tourism such as tourism policies, research materials, and information on tour resources.