Statistics
Links to Korean-language service are marked with Korean link text, to English-language service with English.
- 국가통계포털 (한국어); Korean Statistical Information Service (KOSIS)
- 통계청 (한국어); Statistics Korea, the main national statistics agency
- 서울통계(한국어); Seoul Statistics
- 수출입무역통계 (한국어); Merchandise Trade Statistics (English)
- 한국사회과학 데이터센터 (한국어); Korean Social Science Data Center
- 한국은행 경제통계시스템 (한국어); Bank of Korea Economic Statistics System (for English, same link)
- 성 인지 통계정보 시스템 (한국어); Gender Statistics Information System (English)
- 중소기업중앙회 중소기업통계 (한국어); stats of the Korean Federation of Small and Medium Businesses available only in Korean
- 보건복지통계포털 – 보건복지부 (한국어); English-language stats on health and welfare apparently not available at the moment
- 교육통계서비스 (한국어); Korean Educational Statistics Service (English)
Romanization of Korean
Romanization of Korean in accordance with either the McCune-Reischauer system or the Revised Romanization of Korean is essential in scholarly writing. Further guidelines for Romanization of personal names, place names, proper nouns etc will be added here in due time.
- Romanization converter (로마자변환기), works to both McCune-Reischauer and the Revised System
- Korean Name Romanizer to McCune-Reischauer (Princeton U. East Asian Library)
- A Practical Guide to McCune-Reischauer Romanization
- McCune–Reischauer romanization in Wikipedia
- Revised Romanization of Korean (National Institute of Korean Language)
- Revised Romanization of Korean (Wikipedia)
- USA Library of Congress Korean romanization and word division (pdf)
Visual archives and materials
- Korea Film Archive’s Korean Classic Film Theater in Youtube (login required); dozens of older Korean movies with subtitles
- Visual History Archive (e영상역사관): news clips since the 1950s etc etc (works best with Internet Explorer); for example, President Syngman Rhee visits the Pusôk temple in 1956 (6:17)
- Korean Movie Database 한국영화데이터베이스 (Korean Film Archive)
Computing resources
- PDFill free pdf tools; quite a handy tool for merging, splitting, reordering pages, rotating, cropping, and page size reformatting of pdf files (seems to be more convenient than PDF-Xchange tools that universities often provide despite not having a preview function)
- PDF scissors; very handy to cut for example book spread pdf’s to separate pages or to crop pdf documents
- Microsoft Word converter for .hwp files
- HWP viewer for reading of .hwp files: downloading site; another downloading site