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普林斯頓大學葛思德東亞圖書館 ・ プリンストン大学東アジア図書館 ・ 프린스턴 대학교 동아시아 도서관

Basic Reference Works for Korean Studies

Unannotated Bibliographies

For material in Western languages, see the

http://bas.umdl.umich.edu/b/bas/

mentioned in the general guide, and also the

Harvard Korean Studies Bibliography

available under that title from the Library Web site, under Articles & Databases>H. You may first have to download special software, as instructed. Internet Explorer is required.

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Annotated Bibliographies and Research Guides

An introduction to English language material is

J.E. Hoare, Korea (DS907.18.H63)

But most material is in non-Western languages (Korean and Japanese). For an early English guide to that material see the

Korean studies guide (1954; Z3316.C3)

Extensive English notes on some 150 traditional Korean sources can be found in

Kim Tai-jin, A Bibliographic Guide to Traditional Korean Sources (Z3316.B52)

An up-to-date guide on reference material in any Korea-related subject, with notes in English, is

Eugene Hyung-suk Chai, An Annotated Bibliography of Korean Reference Books (Z3316.C424)

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Current Periodical Indexes

A large scale index to books and articles on Korean historical subjects written in all languages covering the period from 1945 to 1995 is

Han'guksa yon'gu nonjō ch'ong mongnok (Z3316.H363q).

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Encyclopedias

The Korean encyclopedia to be consulted is

Han'guk minjok munhwa tae paekkwa sajōn (DS904.H36q)

To help you with many aspects of Korean Studies there is the Korean to English

Basic glossary of Korean Studies (DS909.8.B37 1993)

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