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  • DBpia
    DBpia is a full text database which covers more than 862,000 articles from 1,124 Korean scholarly journals in 12 subject fields, such as sociology, literature, economics & business, medical science, humanities, theology, law and administration, arts, engineering, natural science, and education. English materials are also availble.
  • KRpia
    KRpia contains Korean historical materials and records in the fields of history, literature, folk culture, nature, Chinese medicine, religion, and materials related to Asian studies.
  • Academic Search Premier
    This multidiscplinary database covers 4000+ popular and scholarly journal articles with many full-text articles in academic areas including business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education and multi-cultural topics..
  • JSTOR
    JSTOR provides a retrospective archive of important scholarly journal literature in nearly all the humanities and social sciences disciplines, international and foreign areas studies, and many of the sciences.
  • Project Muse
    Project Muse provides an archive of important scholarly journal literature in nearly all the humanities and social sciences disciplines.
  • Bibliography of Asian Studies
    An important resource for Asian Studies. Try searching for "feminism" and "China," or "women" and "social conditions" and "China."
  • Historical Abstracts
    Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world from 1450 to the present, excluding the United States and Canada.
  • MLA International Bibliography Plus Full Text and Literature Resource Center Two major sources for finding literary criticism and analysis.
  • Reference Resources

    These resources provide references to important reference books, journals, bibliographical tools, databases, and similar sources.

  • The Harvard Korean studies bibliography [electronic resource]: Davis reference 10-245
  • North Korea handbook Davis Reference DS932 .N6658 2003
  • A Handbook on North Korea Davis Reference DS932 .H36 1998
  • The Korean War : an annotated bibliography Bibliographies about the Korean War availble at Davis library.
  • The Korean War: handbook of the literature and research DS918.A1 K7 1996 c.1 Electric version is also available here
  • Korean War almanac DS918 .E365 2006
  • The Korean War: an encyclopedia  DS918 .K5645 1995
  • Encyclopedia of the Korean War: A Political, Social, and Military History DS918 .E53 2000
  • Conflict in Korea : an encyclopedia / Roots of modern conflict DS916 .H62 1999
  • Primary Sources

  • Guides to Primary Sources
    Finding Primary Source Documents
    A guide written by UNC librarians that explains what primary source documents are and how to find them in the library.

  • ArchiveGrid
    ArchiveGrid serves as a single point of entry that provides online access to descriptions of archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies, and archives worldwide. [more info]
  • Newspaper Archive

  • Chonsonilbo Archive 조선일보 아카이브
  • Dongailbo Archive 동아일보 아카이브
  • Korea Integrated News Database System (KINDS) 언론재단
  • Kyongsong ilbo (경성일보 = 京城日報)
  • Naver News Archive 네이버뉴스 아카이브 PDF files of three Korean newspapers including Kyŏnghyang sinmun, Tonga ilbo, and Maeil kyŏngje sinmun. (From 1976 through 1985)
  • Finding Books book icon

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    LC Subject Heading

  • Korean war -- history
  • Comfort women – Korea
  • Korea -- History -- 20th century
  • democracy -- Korea
  • Korea -- history -- Japanese occupation, 1910-1945
  • Going to the advanced search features in the UNC catalog will let you search for items that UNC has in Korean. You can also specific what format (book, film, etc.) that you want to find.

    Research Organization

  • The Council on Foreign Relations North Korea
  • The Council on Foreign Relations South Korea
  • U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS
  • Stanford University, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Korean Studies Program
  • CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies) Websites
  • NBR (National Bureau of Asian Research)
  • Political and Security Affairs (PSA)
  • Strategic Asia
  • Asia Policy
  • Peterson Institute for International Economic Policy (Essentials Reading for the Koreas)
  • The National Committee on North Korea Briefing Papers
  • NKIDP the Woodrow Wilson Center
  • Online Newspaper

  • Korean Times
  • Korea Heral
  • Hankyoreh
  • Chonsonilbo
  • Joongangdaily
  • Guardian (North Korea)
  • Guardian (South Korea)
  • Yonhap News
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