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  • fromis_9 really ate with their โ€œMiniskirtโ€ cover!!

    Dec 19, 2025
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    In todayโ€™s gayo festival, they decided to do a special cover of AOAโ€™s Miniskirt and my god, they ate that…

    Sex
  • k-pop fans NEEDING their idols to be gay

    Dec 18, 2025
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    I’ve noticed this w so many groups that they NEED to call and idol gay and it’s mainly just for…

    K-pop, K-pop Fans, Sex
  • DP lawmakers voice support for actor Cho Jin-woong after retirement announcement, PPP critical

    Dec 10, 2025
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    DP lawmakers voice support for actor Cho Jin-woong after retirement announcement, PPP critical

    Calls to support the actor Cho Jin-woong spread among lawmakers in the ruling Democratic Party (DP) after he announced his…

    Celebrity, Crime, history, Lawmakers, Question, Seoul, Sex, sexual assault
  • The use of AI to sexualise idols is something we need to work together to stop

    Dec 10, 2025
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    Iโ€™ve seen a start of a disturbing trend (edit: on twitter) where people have been using AI to generate or…

    Question, Sex
  • Is there a way to mellow out/cut out the sour punch of kimchi when you eat it?

    Dec 9, 2025
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    Iโ€™ve been getting into Korean food the past couple of years since they put a Korean bbq restaurant in my…

    Kimchi, Korean Food, Sex
  • The Reason Why Korean Men Are Insecure About “๐Ÿค”

    Dec 6, 2025
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    The Reason Why Korean Men Are Insecure About “๐Ÿค”

    As someone deeply concerned about digital sexual crimes, dating violence, and structural discrimination against women in South Korea, I find…

    BBC, Controversy, Crime, Discrimination, family, Feminism, Korean Language, Koreans, LG, netizens, Politics, Protest, Question, Sex, Sexual Harassment, Stress
  • โ€œThe Taebaek Mountainsโ€: The Ordeals and Lamentations of the Korean Peninsula โ€” the Land of Three Thousand Ri(3):The beautiful illusion of the โ€˜Communist paradiseโ€™ and the hellish reality; revolution unfinished, beautiful dream awakened

    Dec 5, 2025
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    โ€œThe Taebaek Mountainsโ€: The Ordeals and Lamentations of the Korean Peninsula โ€” the Land of Three Thousand Ri(3):The beautiful illusion of the โ€˜Communist paradiseโ€™ and the hellish reality; revolution unfinished, beautiful dream awakened

    Contents The Background, Characteristics, and Influence of The Taebaek Mountains The Repeated โ€œChanges of Flagsโ€ in Beolgyo-eup, South Jeolla Province:…

    Ancient Korea, BTS, Busan, Crime, Democracy, Discrimination, Ewha, fail, family, Feminism, history, Japan, Jeju, Korean History, Korean Military, Korean War, Koreans, LG, Military, North Korea, Peace, Politics, Prostitution, Pyongyang, Question, Sex, Sexual Harassment, travel
  • Japan’s millitary “comfort women” system

    Dec 3, 2025
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    Japan’s millitary “comfort women” system

    Hello, Iโ€™m a high school student from Seoul, South Korea. Please understand if Iโ€™m a bit inexperienced on Reddit, as…

    history, Japan, Koreans, Medical, Military, Seoul, Sex
  • Is anyone else noticing the Korean hate trend?

    Dec 1, 2025
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    I was talking about this to other people that I noticed this trend on hating Korea these days. But everyone…

    Controversy, Koreans, Sex
  • Legalizing same-sex marriage is still unpopular in South Korea. But does it need to be popular?

    Nov 25, 2025
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    Legalizing same-sex marriage is still unpopular in South Korea. But does it need to be popular?

    submitted by /u/tecialist [link] [comments]

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  • Since u/AskAKorean wonโ€™t let me, I will ask it here. Why is misogyny so strong in Korea, enough to shame a genuine victim?

    Nov 24, 2025
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    This post was made about 20 days ago on the same forum (under flair crime). The comments and judgments she…

    Crime, Sex, Teenager
  • Why has KATSEYE recently been so much more revealing

    Nov 18, 2025
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    This is coming from a 19 year old girl. I am literally their ages and I swear it’s getting excessive.…

    purpose, Sex
  • What are your favourite debuts of 2025 so far?

    Nov 17, 2025
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    my top 3 is (videos below) Imma Be – XLOV (boy group) – https://youtu.be/bgblQb-XFFY?si=0yOGpjASt8vJ4zno Reborn – Re:Hearts (co-ed band) –…

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  • โ€˜No Closure, No Transparencyโ€™: Harassment Victims Seek Resolution

    Nov 14, 2025
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    โ€˜No Closure, No Transparencyโ€™: Harassment Victims Seek Resolution

    At the height of the #MeToo movement in 2018, South Korea changed its workplace law to require companies to take…

    Discrimination, Discussion, fail, Japan, Seoul, Sex, Sexual Harassment, Stress, Survey
  • I pray hope the next Jungkook solo comeback will be massive.

    Nov 12, 2025
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    I appreciate BTS truly but Ive come to realize I prefer Jungkook as a soloist and GOLDEN was truly a…

    BTS, K-pop, Sex
  • Guilty of defamation for, e.g., naming bullies? Korea’s libel law may be changing soon.

    Nov 11, 2025
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    Should fans risk legal backlash when exposing verified facts about idols/agencies/companies? How do we balance protecting individualsโ€™ reputations and enabling…

    fail, K-pop, K-pop industry, Parents, Sex, sexual assault
  • In Korea, itโ€™s time to go public; IPOs roaring back as big names line up for listing

    Nov 11, 2025
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    In Korea, itโ€™s time to go public; IPOs roaring back as big names line up for listing

    The Korean IPO market is reviving South Koreaโ€™s moribund initial public offering (IPO) market is springing back to life with…

    fail, Joseon, LG, LG CNS, Lotte, request, Seoul, Sex, Shopping
  • Original Song Titles vs. Used Song Titles

    Nov 11, 2025
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    While looking through the credits of Key’s new album, HUNTER, I noticed that every track has an “original title” credited.…

    Curiosity, Sex
  • The disgusting reality of a Korean man who doesn’t care about secondary damage to sex crime victims

    Nov 5, 2025
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    The disgusting reality of a Korean man who doesn’t care about secondary damage to sex crime victims

    On November 2nd, she posted on her YouTube that she was a victim of a sexual crime. (Her video summary:…

    Crime, driver, Sex, Sexual Harassment
  • Comments that insult the victims of sexual assault never stop

    Nov 4, 2025
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    Comments that insult the victims of sexual assault never stop

    This is the only picture I have captured and I keep getting these offensive comments. I’m busy so I haven’t…

    Sex, sexual assault
  • Do kpop fans realize that 18 is still really young?

    Nov 4, 2025
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    I’ve seen a lot of discourse about this topic and one thing Iโ€™ve noticed is that fans really struggle to…

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  • Comments under Gwak Hyeol-su (๊ณฝํ˜ˆ์ˆ˜)’s video about her sexual assault story

    Nov 4, 2025
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    Comments under Gwak Hyeol-su (๊ณฝํ˜ˆ์ˆ˜)’s video about her sexual assault story

    Gwak Hyeol-su (๊ณฝํ˜ˆ์ˆ˜) is a popular Korean Youtuber who recently made a video where she shared a story about how…

    driver, K-drama, K-pop, Sex, sexual assault
  • They could describe everything with one single word…you know like….

    Nov 3, 2025
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    Katseye’s exponential growth with barely 1.5 year into their carrier is commendable…but with that I think they have also grabbed…

    fail, Sex
  • If we really want idols to be more comfortable talking about their sexuality, maybe we should stop… acting so weird when they do?

    Oct 31, 2025
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    I know the title may sound a bit confusing out of context. Katseye as most of us have heard have…

    Sex
  • Ryujin really went to flirt with women and terrorise NA PD ๐Ÿ˜ญ (JYP ร— GAME CATERERS) Highlights – ITZY’s RYUJIN

    Oct 30, 2025
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    Seriously, who knew she was such a variety Queen and forgot to tell me??? She’s my bias, but every time…

    fail, Question, Scandal, Sex
  • Rare 1944 Korean-Japanese Bilingual Propaganda Poster Promoting Forced Labor Conscription

    Oct 28, 2025
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    Rare 1944 Korean-Japanese Bilingual Propaganda Poster Promoting Forced Labor Conscription

    This is a very rare Koreanโ€“Japanese bilingual wartime propaganda poster, published in Keijo Nippo (Gyeongseong Ilbo) on October 7, 1944.…

    Japan, Koreans, Military, Sex
  • Falling out of love with idols but still loving kpop

    Oct 27, 2025
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    Lately, Iโ€™ve realized I havenโ€™t fallen out of love with K-pop โ€” just with idols. I still love the music,…

    K-pop, Sex
  • Terrified by rumors of forced labor conscription under the Imperial Army, young Korean women rushed into marriages to escape, prompting officials to hold April 1944 press conference to deny and deflect

    Oct 20, 2025
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    Terrified by rumors of forced labor conscription under the Imperial Army, young Korean women rushed into marriages to escape, prompting officials to hold April 1944 press conference to deny and deflect

    This is a 1944 article featuring a damage-control press conference held by Imperial Japanese authorities to publicly address growing panic…

    Controversy, Discrimination, Japan, Koreans, Military, Sex, Tokyo
  • a haobin shipper asked about their โ€œfirst timeโ€ at a fancall

    Oct 15, 2025
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    basically title. at a recent fancall, a haobin shipper asked both โ€œwhen was haobinโ€™s first time?” with the choices *…

    Curiosity, Question, Sex
  • Rain or shine, Seoul Drag Parade glitters in gold – The Korea Times

    Oct 4, 2025
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    Rain or shine, Seoul Drag Parade glitters in gold – The Korea Times

    No amount of rain could dull the sparkle of the kings and queens of the Seoul Drag Parade, who graced…

    Chuseok, Discrimination, family, Gojoseon, Joseon, Kimchi, LG, LGBTQ+, Military, Protest, Seoul, Seoul Queer Culture Festival, Sex
  • what are your thoughts on nmixx’ spinnin’ on it ??

    Oct 3, 2025
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    well, everything’s in the title what do you think about spinnin’ on it ? not music-wise (absolute banger in my…

    Sex
  • Shout-out to the mods of this sub

    Sep 28, 2025
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    As an opinionated Chinese woman, I get alot of nasty messages on this sub. And the mods here are EXCELLENT…

    Sex
  • I wonder if foreign idols find the conservative culture in Korea very difficult to adjust to.

    Sep 25, 2025
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    Korea has quite a conservative culture in general, at least from what I observed whilst travelling there. Great respect is…

    Discrimination, LG, LGBTQ+, Protest, Scandal, Sex, Stress, Teenager, travel
  • Which member of your fav groups elevates the groupโ€™s music/performance?

    Sep 19, 2025
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    Let me try to explain before you say โ€œevery member is essential!!โ€ Of course they are. Of course they ALL…

    Sex
  • im hype for the movie but the only problem is that jared leto is in the movie ๐Ÿ˜’๐Ÿ™„ also 9 women accused him of sexual misonduct and other shady activity that he has done

    Sep 17, 2025
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    im hype for the movie but the only problem is that jared leto is in the movie ๐Ÿ˜’๐Ÿ™„ also 9 women accused him of sexual misonduct and other shady activity that he has done

    submitted by /u/Zestyclose-Score5002 [link] [comments]

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  • Recent numerous kidnapping attempts

    Sep 17, 2025
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    Article in Korean: link *Chat GPT translation: From Seoul to Jeju: A string of child abduction attempts โ€” was โ€˜moneyโ€™…

    Advice, Crime, daegu, fail, Jeju, Punishment, Question, request, Seoul, Sex, Warning
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History of Korea

  • Exploring Ancient Korea: A Journey into Pre-HistoryOctober 12, 2017
    Introduction to Pre-Historic Korea The timeline of ancient Korea before documented history is a fascinating yet challenging area of study.โ€ฆ Read more: Exploring Ancient Korea: A Journey into Pre-History
  • The Rise and Fall of Go Joseon and the Emergence of the Three KingdomsOctober 19, 2017
    Introduction to Go Joseon The Go Joseon dynasty, often considered a pivotal era in Korean history, emerged around the endโ€ฆ Read more: The Rise and Fall of Go Joseon and the Emergence of the Three Kingdoms
  • The Rise and Fall of Koreaโ€™s Three Kingdoms: A Story of Power, Conflict, and UnificationNovember 30, 2017
    Introduction to the Three Kingdoms The Three Kingdoms period in Korea, encompassing approximately from the 1st century BCE to theโ€ฆ Read more: The Rise and Fall of Koreaโ€™s Three Kingdoms: A Story of Power, Conflict, and Unification
  • Choe Chi-wonFebruary 14, 2018
    Introduction to Choe Chi-won Choe Chi-won, born in 857, stands as a notable figure in Korean history, specifically during theโ€ฆ Read more: Choe Chi-won
  • King Gwanggaeto the GreatMay 14, 2018
    Introduction to King Gwanggaeto King Gwanggaeto the Great, a pivotal figure in Korean history, ruled from 395 to 413 CEโ€ฆ Read more: King Gwanggaeto the Great
  • Won HyoOctober 14, 2018
    Introduction to Won Hyo Won Hyo, a prominent figure in Korean history, is celebrated for his profound impact on theโ€ฆ Read more: Won Hyo
  • Jang BogoApril 14, 2019
    Introduction to Jang Bogo Jang Bogo, a prominent historical figure from the Silla Dynasty, played a pivotal role in shapingโ€ฆ Read more: Jang Bogo
  • GyebaekApril 14, 2019
    Introduction to Gyebaek Gyebaek is a prominent historical figure in Korean history, particularly known for his role as a generalโ€ฆ Read more: Gyebaek
  • King MuryeongSeptember 14, 2019
    Introduction to King Muryeong King Muryeong, reigning from 501 to 523 AD, stands as one of the most influential monarchsโ€ฆ Read more: King Muryeong
  • The Rise and Fall of the Goryeo Dynasty: A Precursor to the Joseon EraJanuary 3, 2020
    Introduction to the Goryeo Dynasty The Goryeo Dynasty, established in 918 AD by the notable general Wang Geon, marks aโ€ฆ Read more: The Rise and Fall of the Goryeo Dynasty: A Precursor to the Joseon Era

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Helplines in Korea

112  | Police

Call to report life-threatening situations and emergencies requiring law enforcement. Text service and location tracking service is also available.

119 | Fire & Ambulance

The fire department and health emergencies requiring ambulance service. Thereโ€™s also an English reporting section on their website.

182 | Missing Persons & Stolen Vehicles

This line is also used for non-emergency reports and requests such as inquiring about the cost of a fine for a traffic violation, information on car licenses, and how to contact officers in charge of specific cases.

1339 | Korea Center for Disease Control (KCDC) Foreigner Helpline

Particularly useful during the 2015 MERS scare, the KCDC provides foreigners with information about first-aid and diseases in English, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Mongolian.

1366 | Seoul Womenโ€™s Help Hotline

Not necessarily English-friendly and not outside of Seoul, this 24-hour service immediate response line for women involved in domestic abuse, sexual violence or prostitution should still be kept handy.

1330 | Korea Tourism Organizationโ€™s Travel Helpline

Tourism and translation services. The service is available 24/7 and provides information on tourist sites, transportation, restaurants, and more.

120 | Seoul Municipal Government Info

The Seoul โ€œDasanโ€ helpline provides information on restaurants (Korean and international cuisines), transportation (bus, subway, taxi, etc.), Korean language schools, interpretation services, legal consulting, lost items, volunteer services, daily living in Seoul, and tourism. Available languages are Chinese, English, Japanese, Mongolian and Vietnamese from 9 am to 10 pm.

1345 | Immigration

Foreign resident can to ask just about any immigration-related question. Keep in mind that they tend to be on the negative side, as itโ€™s the safer way for them to answer. Tip: Get their name and information so that if you visit the immigration office and get a different story you can tell them that you were told otherwiseโ€ฆ

1331 | National Human Rights Commission of Korea

Call here to get information on human rights laws and social justice in Korea, as well as get assistance with filing a complaint and even receive counseling.

110 | National Government Call Center

This phone number is available for the public to call and inquire about anything from government policy to civil complaints. Available in 20 different languages.

Useful Official Links on Korea

Korean Arts

  • Archive of Gugak ๊ตญ์•…์•„์นด์ด๋ธŒ
  • Artsnet ๋ฏธ์ˆ ํฌํƒˆ ์•„์ธ ๋„ท
  • Digital Archive of Performing Arts ๊ณต์—ฐ์˜ˆ์ˆ  ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์•„์นด์ด๋ธŒ
  • Intangible Heritage Digital Archive ๋ฌดํ˜•์œ ์‚ฐ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์•„์นด์ด๋ธŒ
  • Korea Digital Archives for the Arts ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ์•„์นด์ด๋ธŒ
  • National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea ๊ตญ๋ฆฝํ˜„๋Œ€๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ด€
  • โ€‹National Museum of Korea ๊ตญ๋ฆฝ์ค‘์•™๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€
  • Seoul Photo Archives ์„œ์šธ์‚ฌ์ง„์•„์นด์ด๋ธŒ

Korean Cinema

  • HANCINEMA The Korean Movie & Drama Database
  • Intangible Heritage Digital Archive ๋ฌดํ˜•์œ ์‚ฐ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์•„์นด์ด๋ธŒ
  • KMDb ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ํ™”๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฒ ์ด์Šค
  • Korea Digital Archives for the Arts ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ์•„์นด์ด๋ธŒ
  • Korean Annual Box Office Results ์˜ํ™”์ง„ํฅ์œ„์›ํšŒ ๋ฐ•์Šค์˜คํ”ผ์Šค
  • Korean Film Archive ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜์ƒ์ž๋ฃŒ์›
  • Korean Film Archive YouTube Channel
  • Korean Film Biz Zone
  • Korean Film Council ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ํ™”์ง„ํฅ์œ„์›ํšŒ
  • KTV National Record Film ํ•œ๊ตญ์ •์ฑ…๋ฐฉ์†ก์› e์˜์ƒ์—ญ์‚ฌ๊ด€
  • North Korean film ๋ถํ•œ์˜ํ™” (ํ†ต์ผ๋ถ€ ๋ถํ•œ์ž๋ฃŒ์„ผํƒ€)

Language & Literature

  • The Academy of Korean Studies ํ•œ๊ตญํ•™ ์ค‘์•™ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์›
  • DLKL (ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ฌธํ•™ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ๋„์„œ๊ด€) by ํ•œ๊ตญ๋ฌธํ•™๋ฒˆ์—ญ์›Digital Library of Korean Literature
  • The Korea Comparative Literature Association ํ•œ๊ตญ๋น„๊ต๋ฌธํ•™ํšŒ
  • The Korean Association of Language Sciences ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ธ์–ด๊ณผํ•™ํšŒ
  • Korean Literature Archive
  • Korean Literature Author Data Service
  • Korean Literature E-books in Multiple Languages
  • The Learned Society of Modern Korean Literature ํ•œ๊ตญํ˜„๋Œ€๋ฌธํ•™ํšŒ
  • The Modern Linguistic Society of Korea ํ•œ๊ตญํ˜„๋Œ€์–ธ์–ดํ•™ํšŒ
  • The Society of Korean Oral Literature ํ•œ๊ตญ ๊ตฌ๋น„ ๋ฌธํ•™ํšŒ
  • ๊ตญ์–ด ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ ์ธ์ฆ ์‹œํ—˜ (ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ธ์–ด๋ฌธํ™”์—ฐ๊ตฌ์›)
  • ๊ทผ๋Œ€ ๋ฌธํ•™ ์ข…ํ•ฉ ๋ชฉ๋ก (๊ตญ๋ฆฝ ์ค‘์•™ ๋„์„œ๊ด€)A comprehensive database for Korean modern literature. The site provides a search for authors and titles.
  • ํ•œ๊ตญ ๊ณ ์ „ ์ข…ํ•ฉ DB
  • ํ•œ๊ธ€ ํ•™ํšŒ (Korean Language Society)

Statistical Sources

Government sources

  • Statistics Korea (KOSTAT ํ†ต๊ณ„์ฒญ)
  • Korean Statistical Information Sources (KOSIS ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ํ†ต๊ณ„ํฌํ„ธ)
  • Open DATA Portal (๊ณต๊ณต ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ํฌํ„ธ)

Themed statistics

  • Korean Social Science Data Archive (KOSSDA) ํ•œ๊ตญ์‚ฌํšŒ๊ณผํ•™์ž๋ฃŒ์›
  • North Korean Statistics ๋ถํ•œํ†ต๊ณ„ (KOISS)
  • ๊ฒฝ์ œํ†ต๊ณ„์‹œ์Šคํ…œ (Economic Statistics System)
  • ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๊ต์œกํ†ต๊ณ„์ •๋ณด์„ผํ„ฐ (Korea National Center for Education Statistics & Information)
  • ๋…ธ๋™ํ†ต๊ณ„ (Labour Statistics)
  • Media Statistics (Korea Press Foundation)
  • Trade Statistics (์ˆ˜์ถœ์ž…ํ†ต๊ณ„, ๊ด€์„ธ์ฒญ Korea Customs Service)

History related sources

  • ํ•œ๊ตญ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ •๋ณดํ†ตํ•ฉ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ (๊ตญ์‚ฌํŽธ์ฐฌ์›Œ์›ํšŒ)
  • ํ•œ๊ตญ์‚ฌ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฒ ์ด์Šค
  • Kyujanggak Institute (๊ทœ์žฅ๊ฐ ํ•œ๊ตญํ•™ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์›)Seoul National University Kyujanggak Institute for Korean studies
  • ํ•œ๊ตญํ•™ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์•„์นด์ด๋ธŒ
  • The Annals of the Joseon Dynasty ์กฐ์„  ์™•์กฐ ์‹ค๋ก
  • The Daily Records of Royal Secretariat of Joseon Dynasty ์Šน์ •์› ์ผ๊ธฐ
  • ๆœ้ฎฎ็Ž‹ๆœๅฎŸ้Œฒ (ๆฑไบฌๅคงๅญฆๆฑๆด‹ๆ–‡ๅŒ–็ ”็ฉถๆ‰€)
  • Korean Image Archive (ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€ ์ž๋ฃŒ์›)2,400 historic, original photographs of Korea (primarily focus on images captured pre-1970, and 35mm color slides) are available for research, presentation, lectures and other forms of scholarly works.
  • Sajin Taehan Min’guk (์‚ฌ์ง„ ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ)a collection of photographic records that vividly capture the people’s daily lives and social changes.
  • Academy of Korean Studies [ํ•œ๊ตญํ•™ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์•„์นด์ด๋ธŒ]

Bibliographies and Indexes

  • ํ•œ๊ตญํ•™์ˆ ์ง€์ธ์šฉ์ƒ‰์ธ Korea Citation Index
  • KORCIS: ํ•œ๊ตญ ๊ณ ๋ฌธํ—Œ ์ข…ํ•ฉ ๋ชฉ๋ก (๊ตญ๋ฆฝ์ค‘์•™๋„์„œ๊ด€)Korean Old and Rare Collection Information System
  • ่ฟ‘ไปฃๆœ้ฎฎ้–ขไฟ‚ๆ›ธ็ฑใƒ‡ใƒผใ‚ฟใƒ™ใƒผใ‚น (ๆฑไบฌๅคงๅญฆๆฑๆด‹ๆ–‡ๅŒ–็ ”็ฉถๆ‰€)
  • ํ•œ๊ตญ ์žก์ง€ ๋ฐ•๋ฌผ๊ด€ DB