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Korean Studies

This guides primarily describes resources available at the UMD Libraries for research on Korean Studies. The guide also directs researchers to collections and resources beyond the UMD Libraries.

Find Newspaper articles ONLINE

Korean Newspaper Archives - An online archive created by National Library of Korea, this archive provide full-text as well as index for many newspapers published in Korea.  [Full-text]    

Factiva - Full-text access to over 8,000 business sources including national and international newspapers, magazines, wire services, web sites and industry (trade) sources.  As of 2021, there are 131 Korean language items in Factiva.  Examples are - Busanilbo, Daejonilbo, Incheon ilbo, and the Korea Economic Daily. [Full-text]    

Nexis Uni - Nexis Uni provides full-text to news, business, and legal information. Newspapers date back to the 1970s.  Example newspapers that may be useful for Korean Studies are: Korea Herald, Korea Times, and Korea News Gazette.  [Full-text]   

Naver News Library - A Korean newspaper database. It covers Dong-A ilbo, Kyunghyang shinmun, Maeil business Newspaper, and the Hankyoreh.  [Full-text]