Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Cold War International History Project. Collection: The Korean War (http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=va2.browse&sort=Collection&item=The%20Korean%20War)
Links to documents providing information and perspectives on the history of the Cold War. Includes news about the Project, access to the CWIHP Bulletin, and a discussion group.
Commemorating the Korean War (http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/koreanwar/index.html)
Includes articles, photos, and related resources. From the U.S. Department of Defense DefenseLINK.
Hendrick Hamel (http://www.henny-savenije.pe.kr/index.htm)
Henny Savenije's Web site on several topics in Korean culture and history. Includes Hendrick Hamel’s 1666 journal (in Korean and English) " about Korea ((Hamel was the first Westerner to write about Korea); and links to Dutch history in the Far East and Korea.
Histopia / 한국사포탈사이트 (http://histopia.new21.org/)
General information on Korean history, including a geneaological table. In Korean.
The Independence Hall of Korea / 독립기념관 (http://www.independence.or.kr/EN/index.php)
Dedicated to displaying Korean history from past to present, focusing on the independence movements of the Japanese colonial period, and to collecting, preserving, exhibiting, studying, and researching the materials and resources about Korean history. Links to information about the halls, a cypber gallery, and more. In Korean and English.
Jikji/ 직지 (http://www.jikjiworld.net/content/english/jikji/main.jsp)
"Jikji" was recognized as the olderst metal printed book that remains in existence
and was enlisted as UNESCO's Memory of World Program in September4, 2001. In Korean, English, Dutch, Spanish, French, Dutch, Chinese, and Japanese.
University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Libraries. Japan Collection. Kajiyama Collection(http://www.hawaii.edu/asiaref/japan/special/kajiyama/index.htm)
The personal library of the late novelist Toshiyuki Kajiyama, containing over 7,000 titles including works on Korea and Mr. Kajiyama's own works with his source materials. The core of Korea-related resources is a number of classified documents of the former Government-General of Korea (Chosen Sotokufu), the official publications and pamphlets on Korean-Japanese (Zainichi Chosen-jin), Korean War, Nikkan Joyaku, and monographs of general topics on Korea. The collection also extensively covers fields such as history, culture, literature, and religion.
Korean History: A Bibliography (http://www.hawaii.edu/korea/bibliography/biblio.htm)
Updating of and supplement to the annotated bibliography Studies on Korea: A Scholar's Guide (University Press of Hawaii, 1980). Bibliography includes 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. Searchable. With topical, history, and general indices. Maintained by the Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawai’i. Compiled by Kenneth R. Robinson.
Korean Historical Connection (Hong-ik University) (http://www.hongik.ac.kr/%7Ekhc/khc-eng.htm)
On-line searchable bibliographies written in Korean on Korean History; List
of historical associations and their publications in Korea.
Korean History On-Line/ 한국역사정보통합시스템 (http://www.koreanhistory.or.kr)
Includes searchable databases from the Academy of Korean Studies, Munchungak, National Institute of Korean History, and the War Memorial of Korea. From the Korean History Information Center. In Korean and English.
Royal and Ruling Houses of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas (http://4dw.net/royalark/)
The most comprehensive site on the genealogies of the Royal and ruling houses of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, which is searchable by the country name. It describes the major periods of Korean history, Choson kings, glossary, orders & decorations, and more.
Korean History Project (http://koreanhistoryproject.org/index.htm)
Educational effort to research, produce, and publish Korean and East Asian history online, to promote history education and cultural understanding, and to make a valuable history resource easily accessible to a worldwide audience. Links to Korea in the Eye of the Tiger, a full-length book that tells the sweeping saga of East Asian history and the complex relationships among Korea, China, Manchuria, Mongolia, Russia, Japan, Europe, and the United States in their quest for power and influence in Asia; its companion feature, Journey to Asia; search engine; essays and personal perspectives.
2000 - 2003. Korean War Plus 50 (http://www.duke.edu/~myhan/b_KW.html)
Site lists annotated schedule of events and announcements, and links to other sources of information concerning the Korean War.
May 18 Memorial Foundation / 5.18 기념재단 (http://www.518.org)
Comprehensive information on the history of May 18 uprising. Links to a chronology on the uprising, memorial monuments, news and events, and more. In Korean and English.
National Institute of Korean History (NIKH) / 국사편찬위원회 (http://www.nhcc.go.kr)
NIKH is responsible for collecting historical materials. Since its foundation in 1946, NIKH has published over thousand 1,000 pieces of historical materials including the Choson Wangjo Sillok (Annals of Choson Dynasty) and Seungjeongwon ilgi (Diary of Royal Secretariat of Choson Dynasty), and collected various materials from books and documents. Includes links to key activities, strategies and objectives, and a brief history of NIKH. In Korean and English.
Newspaper articles on Koreans living in Japan before the war (http://www.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/)
This database has citations for almost 30,000 items. Maintained by Mizuno Naoki at Kyoto Daigaku. In Japanese.
Silence Broken. Korean Comfort Women (http://twotigers.org/)
A nonprofit, tax exempt organization dedicated to research and public education about crimes against humanity in the 20th and 21st centuries, inspired by Dai Sil’s work on comfort women. Comprehensive information and stories about comfort women.
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