Encyclopedia of Korea (EoK)

The Encyclopedia of Korea (Korean: 영문 디지털 한국백과사전), a part of the Open Research Library Digital Collections, is the first comprehensive English language encyclopedia of Korea.

Sixty Koreanists worldwide contributed some 1300 entries. Of these, Korean scholars contributed about 30 per cent and 70 per cent were from foreign scholars such as Martina Deuchler, David R. McCann, James Palais, Keith Howard, James Hoare and others. Of the minor entries, many are English translations from the Encyclopedia of Korean Culture and relevant Japanese and Chinese sources.

The contributors' names are recorded in the "List of Contributors and Translators" and also at the end of the entry itself, complete with bibliographical references for further reading. The "Index of Entries" is extensive (about 120 pages), and its contents include the entries in both Sino-Korean and English.

The encyclopaedia has about 1500 pages. Korean words are Romanized according to the McCune–Reischauer Romanization System, with some minor exceptions. Overall Statistics (ANU Open Research Library Statistic for "Encyclopaedia of Korea") available since the Encyclopaedia became part of the ANU's Open Access Digital Collection in 2011, there have been 9,042 + views and 23,112 + downloads of whole and part articles.

The Encyclopaedia is hyperlinked. The Table of Contents, as well as over 1,000 entries and 700 cross-references in the Index of Entries, are hyperlinked to the relevant articles and references in the main text of the Encyclopaedia.

Foundation article to seed Koreapedia

In December 2024 it was decided that the entire IP of The Encyclopedia of Korea will be donated to Koreapedia.

Koreapedia will encourage Koreapedian volunteers to copy and use articles from The Encyclopedia of Korea to create new and updated Koreapedia pages from them.

Notes

Asian Library Resources of Australia [http:// www.alra.org.au/newslwtter /No.68/July/2016/ "The First comprehensive Encyclopedia] on Korea Written in English"
Asian Library Resources of Australia "The Encyclopaedia was reviewed and mounted as an ANU open access digital collection in 2011"^{[permanent dead link]}

References

Encyclopaedia of Korean Culture of Korea.
Asian Library Resources of Australia /no.68 /07/2016

External links

The Australian National University Open Research: Encyclopaedia of Korea – [1]
Dr. Yang Hi Choe-Wall as Visiting Fellow of the Australian National University, worked on the Encyclopaedia of Korea as Project Director and Chief Compiler until completion in 1999.

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