Korean Studies: Databases

National Assembly Digital Library covers a wide range of scholarly journals, ebooks, archived newspapers, doctoral theses and government documents. All GW students and faculty can access to full list of digitized resources available in National Assembly Library of Korea. Therefore, you must connect this database through the GW VPN. Internet Explorer might work best. Allow "Blocked" to be unblocked in a setting. For first time user, download the program (국회도서관 지원 서비스 설치) at https://dl.nanet.go.kr/viewer3/jsp/install.jsp and install the program. Email Korean Studies Librarian to get ID and PW to access full text materials from the National Assembly Digital Library. One of the computer in the GRC has this program installed so ask at the front desk of GRC to find out which computer to use.

Provided by Australasian Legal Information Institute, A joint facility of UTS and UNSW Faculties of Law

Provides full text of constitutional court information such as cases of constitutional adjudication and the publications of the Court.

ICC Legal Tools database is created to support the International Criminal Court. It assembles many relevant records of war crimes trials and other related trials, including those from many countries and many conflicts.

This database offers a comprehensive database on international crimes adjudicated by national, as well as international and internationalized courts.

Open access databases to most legal documents that may be relevant to international crimes including domestic legislation and case law.

Search Korean law in English by legal field, subject and ministry.

The official government site for Korean legal information, maintained by the Korean Ministry of Government Legislation. It provides full-text, table of contents, and summaries.

Compiled by Ministry of Foreign Affairs (외교부).

Provided by National Archives of Korea /국가 기록원 1910-

OCW is the only resource to contain fully-translated English-language versions of all the world's constitutions (both national and sub-national).

An online database which provides English translation of the statutes of the Republic of Korea. Contents include the Constitution, and more than 1,400 major acts and subordinate statues currently in force. It can be searched by statute name or statutory history.

Collection of Korean Supreme Court decisions or orders are provided in English translations. The collection covers from January 2020 through the recent times.

A full text database which includes law information regarding unification and the relationship between South and North Korea.

Provided by the Constitute Project Org.

Allows to download full-text of journal articles and theses/dissertations
produced in Korea nationwide.

This database is an open access resource and good for searching for Korean language books, journal articles, and especially dissertations. Most of the items can be perused full text in Korean.

Database for survey/ poll statistics & analysis by Korean Social Science Data Center.

KOSSDA is an open access resource and it collects research data such as survey data, statistical data, interview and oral data, recorded documents, and observational records that are generated by research institutes and individual researchers, and constructs them as digital DBs.