Thor's Korea Diary

Links to Korea Related Sites
(mainly English language and very rudimentary!)

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General

• PUSAN WEB Korea LINKS
• PUSAN WEB LINKS FOR EXPATS
• PUSAN WEB LINKS to Personal Homepages

• Frank Hoffman's Korean Studies pages & links (Harvard University)
• Korea by Graph - statistical information on Korea
• Korean Yellow Pages - businesses, classifieds, events listing
• Korea Net - a major news and information site about Korea; commercially run
• Life in Korea - information site, commercially run
• Korea Infogate - a large, well-organized site with many useful survival links; commercially run
• Seoul Spy.com - some commercial links for non-Koreans. Also for other countries.
• Government of Korea Site
• Travel.com korea links
• Lonely Planet - SubWWWay to North-East Asia
• Korea WebRings - Yahoo
• Introduction to Korean - Eisenberg
• Virtual Centre For Learning & Teaching Korean
• yourDictionary.com Korean

Seoul

• 1st Stop Korea - some useful information for expats; also stories. Run by an individual.
• Seoul City Government Site
• Government of Korea Site
• Korean Postal Service - site in English; note that Korea Post also offers a banking service which now includes Internet banking
• Seoul Mystery Tour Site - virtual tours by Canadian, Steven Roney
• Itaewon Clubs Site - reviews of every bar & nightclub in the district + a photo library
• Mapzine Korea.com - new information site run by Ieum media Co. Ltd.
  

Pusan

• Pusan Web - the main electronic English language nerve center for happenings in this busy city of four million plus. Asiaweek magazine recently rated Busan** equal tenth best city (with Seoul) in Asia for quality of life; (Tokyo and Fukuoka scored equal best). Anyway, the place has promise. Early in 2002 Pusan Web was re-born and the originator (Jeff Lebow) took on a small voluntary team to look after individual sections. Its events listings are generally up to date and useful. There are very active bulletin boards for discussions and classifieds (including jobs). I am currently (2002) the Writings manager, where the stories will give you a good feel for how expatriates interpret their Korean experience; (we would like to encourage other, particularly Korean, viewpoints too). The site contains many images of Busan and South Korean life. Pusan Web is also a useful source for other general links and survival information. About once a month translated news stories from the Korean language media are posted. [** Spelling note : the South Korean Government has recently amended its recommended Latin alphabet spellings for transliteration from the native Hangeul script. Amongst the changes, the familiar 'Pusan' becomes 'Busan'; i.e. p =>b; t=>d; k=>g].

• PUSAN WEB LINKS TO PUSAN
  
• Busan City Hall Website - information from the official standpoint.

Media

• The Korea Herald - national English language daily [both The Korea Herald and The Korea Times are pretty derivative, depending heavily on syndicated material. The Herald seems to have a bit more depth than the Times. They are both based on English language print versions.] * ..the online version has just gone to a subscription basis (2002). Ugh!
  
• The Korea Times - national English language daily
  
• JoongAng Ilbo - new English web version of a major Korean language national daily. Tends to a conservative viewpoint on Korean issues, but its resources and professionalism are stiff competition for the Times and Herald. It is affiliated with the International Herald Tribune (which in my view is one of the world's very best newspapers).
  
• Chosun Ilbo - another of South Korea's major daily newspapers now has this English language web version.
  
• The Korea Post  - monthly news magazine in English; emphasis on economics Published in Seoul.
  
• Korean Media in the United States - from asianmediaguide.com

Historical & Cultural

• Korean Literature in English - Korean government listing
• Korean Literature Today - online quarterly, 1996-2001, of Korean work in English translation
• Korean National Commission for UNESCO - events, virtual library etc.
• Korea Journal Index 1961-1997 - literary
• KCAF Bibliographic Database of Korean Literature
• Korean History Project - Where the Past is Always Present
• Korean Nationalism Home Page

Offbeat

• Emptybottle.org A rambling but often engaging  web blog by an un-named fellow, probably Australian (not me !), teaching in Korea

Work (teaching)

• Dave Sperling's ESL Jobs Offered - the best source of teaching work
• Korea Links - EFL in Asia
• Seamonkey Links - terrific
• Foreign Worker's Handbook - Pusanweb

 

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