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Language and Literature : South Korea

This pathfinder includes information about language and literature in South Korea.

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Ethnologue. Languages of the World: Languages of Korea, South (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=KR)
Information on the known living language (Korean) spoken in Korea and Korean sign language.

Bibliographical Database of Korean Literature Translated into English/ 한국문학영역작품 – 서지정보데이타베이스 (http://www.kcaf.or.kr/trnsinfo/html/index.htm)
Contains 1800 items of bibliographical information of Korean literature translated into English.

Korea.net. Gateway to Korea: Romanization of Korean (http://www.korea.net/korea/kor_loca.asp?code=A020303)
Principles of Romanization revised July 2000 by the Ministry of Culture & Tourism.

English Translations of Korean Literature Published before 2001 (http://hompi.sogang.ac.kr/anthony/TranslationList2000.htm)
This page contains translated versions of the Korean Literatures prior to 2001.

English Translations of Korean Literature Published since 2000 (http://hompi.sogang.ac.kr/anthony/TranslationList.htm)
This page contains translated versions of the Korean Literatures that have been published after year 2000.

Index of translations of Korean fictions published in Korea Journal (http://www.unesco.or.kr/kor/publications/1_3.html)

Korean Classics Research Institute / 민족문화추진회  (http://www.minchu.or.kr)
Searchable database of Korean history and Korean classics. In Korean.

Korean Literature - Translations by Brother Anthony (http://hompi.sogang.ac.kr/anthony/Trans.htm)
This page contains translated versions of the Korean Literatures.

Korean Through English (http://www.mct.go.kr/hangeul/index.html)
Introduction to learning Korean. From the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

Korean Translation (http://www.kcaf.or.kr/trnsinfo/html/index.htm)
Site contains slightly more than1,800 bibliographical items on Korean literature translated into English.

McCune-Reischauer Romanization System for Korean Language   (http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/eastasian/korean_table/krntable.htm)
McCune-Reischauer Romanization table for Korean language from UCLA.

The National Institute of the Korean Language / 국립국어연구원 (http://korean.go.kr/index2.html)
Seeks to establish language policies that encourage the Korean people to use their language correctly and appropriately. Collects and conducts scientific research on various linguistic and cultural data, publishes research findings, and provides guidelines on orthography, standard Korean, and other matters which promote the dignified use of the Korean language and contribute to the development of Korean culture. Includes links to a history and chronology of the Institute, projects, a dictionary, publications, and Romanization of Korean. In Korean and English.  

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