Subject page for Korean studies
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Contact
Ane Husstad-Nedberg
Subject librarian, Korean studies
Humanities and Social Sciences Library
Databases
Notice: When working from home and away it is necessary to use UiO VPN, UiO Programkiosk or Remote Desktop for access to the databases DBpia, KRpia, KISS and NK News and NK PRO
- BAS/Bibliography of Asian studies: bibliography on all subjects regarding Asia
- Complete Collection of the Korean Study of Confucian Classics: The Complete Collection of the Korean Study of Confucian Classics (한국경학자료시스템) by the Institute of Eastern Studies at Sungkyunkwan University contains 145 volumes ; Taehak (대학 /大學), Jungyong (중용/ 中庸), Noneo (논어/ 論語), Maengja (맹자/ 孟子), Seokyeong(서경/書經), Sikyeong (시경/詩經), Igyeong (이경/易經), Yegi (예기/ 禮記), and Chunju (춘추/ 春秋).
It also contains annotations by Korean Confucian scholars. - DBpia: Korea Academic Journal Online Service in Korean. DBpia is a multidisciplinary full-text database of journal articles published by major Korean research institutions. There are over 1990 journal titles and more than 1,9 million articles included. In Korean
- Korean Newspaper Archive: The archive provides online access to old Korean newspapers from 1883 to 1960s and consists of over 7 million newspaper article. By the National Library of Korea
- Korean Newspapers/PressReader: newspapers and magazines from South Korea in Korean and English, e.g JoongAng Ilbo (in Korean), The Korea Times (in English) etc.
- KRpia: Full-text databases including reference works and primary sources such as dictionaries, encyclopaedias, and archival material on Korean history, literature, civilization and medicine. In Korean
- Naver News Library: Digital archive service for articles published between 1920 and 1999 from a few major Korean newspapers - Tonga ilbo/Dong-A ilbo 東亞日報, Kyŏnghyang sinmun/ Kyunghyang Shinmun 京鄕新聞, Maeil kyŏngje sinmun 每日經濟新聞 and Hankyoreh 한겨레. In Korean.
- NK News and NK Pro: An independent, privately owned specialist site focused on North Korea. Content includes access to selected newspapers and journals, news aggregator, intelligence analysis, expert surveys, ind-depth articles, and tools and data about North Korea
New books
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Chinese propaganda on Tibet : a documentary historyN/A (Lexington Books, 2023)Mottatt i biblioteket 2026-03-13.
Selected resources
Subject search
HUMORD – subject terms (in Norwegian)
Dewey emneregister – classification (in Norwegian)
Suggest a purchase
You are welcome to suggest additions to our collection (books, journals etc).
Previous exhibitions
- Old texts from Korea, Japan, China: part 2 of Tekster gjennom tidene (in Norwegian)
- 50 år med Østasiastudier i Norge (in Norwegian)
- Stemmer fra Øst: japansk, kinesisk og koreansk skjønnlitteratur på norsk (in Norwegian)
- om Han Kang og Korea (in Norwegian)
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