Last updated April15, 2013
Old books about Korea online
In separate pages you will find commented links
1. To texts mentioning or
describing Korea published in the 16th and 17th centuries.
2. To texts mentioning
or describing Korea published in the 18th and early 19th
centuries.
3. To texts of later 19th-
and early 20th-century accounts of Korea
Theses pages include the following PDF text files:
1.
(a) The short texts about
Corea published by Jan Huyghen van Linschoten (1596/8)
(b) An English version of the
account of Korean culture
etc by Martino Martini from the Novus Atlas Sinensis
(1655)
(c) Johan Nieuhof: the English version
of a single page devoted to a description of Corea from An
embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to
the Grand Tartar Cham, emperor of China (1669)
2.
(a) PDF
text file of the account of Korea
(based on records by Fr. Jean-Baptiste Régis)
found in du Halde's The general history
of China. Containing a geographical, historical,
chronological, political and physical description of the
empire of China, Chinese-Tartary, Corea, and Thibet. (1739)
(b) The account of Korea from
The
Modern Part of an Universal History, From the Earliest
Account of Time (1759)
(c) The account of Korea
in French from Abrégé
de l'histoire générale des voyages
(1780) by Jean-François de La Harpe.
(d) The
account by Lapérouse of his journey past Korea
in 1787 (in French)
(e) A 1797
survey of Quelpart (Jeju-do) by William
Robert Broughton was
described in his A
Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific
Ocean
and I have made a PDF file of his
rather dull account
(f) Chapter Two of Basil
Hall (1788-1844), Voyage to Loo-Choo, a
visit to Korea in 1816
(g) Charles
Gutzlaff's description
of their visit to some islands on the Corean coast in 1832.
(h) Sir Edward Belcher relates his
visit to Quelpart in 1845
(i) Arthur Adams
(1820-1878)'s fine account
of the natural History of
Quelpart in
Vol 2 of Belcher's account.
(j) Frank Marryat's account of the visit to
Jeju Island (Quelpart) during Belcher's
expedition, where he was a midshipman.
(k) An account of an expedition to rescue French
sailors shipwrecked off Jeju Island in
1851.
3.
In June 1865 Captain Allen Young
presented a paper to the Royal Geographical Society about
the potential interest of Korea
"Une Expedition en Coree"
(links to scanned PDF file; click
here for a pure text file and here
for an English translation) by Jean Henri Zuber,
about the French expedition to Ganghwa-do in 1866.
A complete text (in French) of
the Introduction to
Dallet's Histoire
de l’Eglise de Corée section by
section.
Report of a visit to Port
Hamilton in 1875 by a British battleship, written by
Cyprian Bridge, a naval officer (later Admiral Sir Cyprian
Bridge)
Description of Korea
including Seoul written by John Carey Hall who
visited Seoul briefly in 1882.
White Paper Report of a Journey by Mr. Carles
in the North of Corea and a shorter paper by
Carles Recent Journeys in Corea (1885/6)
A paper,
A
Journey in Manchuria By H. E. M.
James (Henry Evan Murchinson James) published in: Proceedings
of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of
Geography. Volume IX., No. 9, September 1887.
A government paper published the report
of the Manchurian expedition led by James written by Harry
English Fulford (PDF file)
Charles William Campbell "A Journey through North
Korea to the Ch'ang-pai Shan". Proceedings of the Royal Geographical
Society and Monthly Record of Geography. Vol. XIV., No.
3. March, 1892,
A lengthy account (in French) by Charles Varat of his journey from Seoul to
Fusan in 1888, Voyage en Corée, published in
Le Tour du Monde 1892. Section I,
Section
II, Section III,
Section IV,
Section V
Click here for an English
translation of: Section
1; Section
2; Section
3; Section 4.
Also the engravings.
1919, Captain Arthur de C. Sowerby "The
Exploration of Manchuria" (The Geographical Journal)
An expanded page
with the text of and the photos from Isabella Bird's Korea
and her Neighbors (1898), with additional photos of
Korea taken by her.
An expanded page with the text
of and the illustrations from Constance Tayler's Koreans
at Home (1904).
In 1798 Alexandre de Gouvea, the Catholic Bishop
of Peking, wrote a long account in Latin about the early history
of the Church in Korea that I have
translated from a French version.
There is also a page in memory of
the missionaries who founded
the Anglican Church in Korea with the scanned text of "Lumen"
The Korea Review Volume 1 (1901)
The Korea Review Volume
2 (1902)
The Korea Review Volume
3 (1903)
The Korea Review Volume
4 (1904)
The Korea Review Volume
5 (1905)
The Korea Review in monthly installments.
The 5 volumes of the Korean
Repository 1892, 1895-98 in annual and monthly
sections
(The Repository, the Review and RASKB Transactions can
(almost) all be read as PDF or through an ebook reader in Inje University's
site.
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There are a number of online sites providing free access to
files in varying formats of old books about Korea
Myongji
- LG Korean Studies Library
This is a database containing "full-text images of 638 old books
related to Korea and its neighbors in western languages along with
their indexes, tables of contents in Korean and full bibliographic
information. Users can also access to the digital database with
indexed terms retrieval system. Now the library on-line system
provides full-text images of about 30% of the major collection. In
addition, mobile web service is possible for some full-text images
of about 70 illustrations and 120 photographs."
The
complete list, titles in alphabetical order for search by
category; books
published in the US; books
published in the UK. etc etc
Project Gutenberg
This site only offers a handful of books related to Korea
Internet Archive
Most of the titles below are from this site. To start a new search
for other online texts, go to the
Internet archive then click on "Texts" at the top of the page.
Enter a search term (eg Korea). Some books are available as PDF
images of the original, all can be read in a streaming form, raw OCR
files of all can be downloaded.
The University
of Oregon Digital Library
The Library offers titles of books and articles in a variety of
formats, requiring other readers, mostly the Microsoft Reader. It
seems impossible to view a straight list of what is available, you
have to use Search functions.
The Hathi Trust
A
number of texts about Korea can be viewed (not
downloaded) through this site, while many others can be searched but
not viewed.
Google books
An increasing number of older books that are out of copyright are
available to read for free through Play Google.
Old books about Korea freely
available on the Internet
The list of Books in English below is in alphabetical order of the
author's family name. Indented titles are from sites other than the
Internet Archive.
Horace Newton Allen, Things
Korean (1908) PDF
download
Horace N. Allen,
A
Chronological Index; Some of the Chief Events in the Foreign
Intercourse of Korea from the Beginning of the Christian Era to
the Twentieth Century. Seoul: N.n., 1901.
Horace Newton Allen, Korean
tales. (1889)
Henry Gerhard Appenzeller, The
Korea Mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church (1905) PDF
download
Annie Laurie Adams Baird, Daybreak
in
Korea : a tale of transformation in the Far East (1909)
PDF
download
Frederick Henry Balfour, Leaves
from my Chinese Scrapbook (1887) PDF
download
William Richard Carles, Life in
Corea (1888) PDF
download
Carles, W.R. Life
in Corea. New York: Macmillan, 1888.
Carles, W.R. Life
in Corea. New York: MacMillan,1894.
Cavendish, A. E. J. (Alfred Edward John); Goold-Adams, H. E. (Henry
Edward Pane), Korea
and the sacred White Mountain : being a brief account of a journey
in Korea in 1891 (1894) PDF
download
Charles Allen Clark, First
Fruits
in Korea (1921) PDF
download
James Hyde Clark, The
Story of China and Japan . . . . together with a sketch of Corea,
and the Coreans (1894)
Everard Cotes, Signs
and Portents in the Far East (1907) PDF
download
Constance J. D. Coulson, Korea (1910)
PDF
download.
O. N. Denny, China
and Korea. Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, 1888
M. Eissler, My
Voyage in Korea (1918) PDF
download
Frank Elias, The
Far East, China, Korea, & Japan (1911) PDF
download
John Donaldson Ford, An
American cruiser in the East; travels and studies in the Far East;
(1898) PDF
download
James Scarth Gale, A
Korean-English Dictionary (1898) PDF
download
James Scarth Gale, Korean
Sketches (1898) PDF
download
James Scarth Gale, The
Vanguard,
a Tale of Korea (1904) PDF
download
James S. Gale, The
Vanguard: A Tale of Korea. New York: Fleming H. Revell,
1904.
James Scarth Gale, Korea
in Transition (1909) PDF
download
James Scarth Gale, Im Bang & Yi Ryuk, Korean
Folk Tales (1913) PDF
download
James Scarth Gale: Im Bang and Yi
Ryuk. Korean
Folk
Tales:
Imps,
Ghosts,
and
Fairies.
Trans.
by James S. Gale. London: Dent, 1913.
James S. Gale The Cloud
Dream of the Nine,
a 17th-century novel by Kim Man-jung (1922)
Daniel L. Gifford, Everyday
Life
in Korea (1898) PDF
download
George W. Gilmore, Corea
of Today (1894) PDF
download
George William Gilmore, Korea
from its capital: with a chapter on missions. (1892)
C. Gottsche, Land
und Leute in Korea (1886)
William Elliot Griffis, Corea,
the Hermit Nation (4th edition, 1894) PDF
download (See also 1st
edition with PDF
file)
William Elliot Griffis, A
modern Pioneer in Korea: The life-story of Henry G. Appenzeller
(1912) PDF
Download
Griffis, William
Elliot. Corea:
the Hermit Nation. New York: Scribner's, 1894.
Griffis, William Elliot. A
Modern Pioneer in Korea: the Life Story of Henry G. Appenzeller.
New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1912
Basil Hall, Voyage
to Loo-Choo . . . (1826) PDF
download
Basil Hall Account
of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great
Loo-Choo Island (1818) (Project Gutenberg)
Hendrik Hamel Verhaal
van het vergaan van het jacht de Sperwer En van het wedervaren der
schipbreukelingen op het eiland Quelpaert en het vasteland van
Korea (1653-1666) met eene beschrijving van dat rijk, (1920
edition)
Angus Hamilton, Korea (1904)
PDF
download
Angus Hamilton, Korea:
its
history, its people, and its commerce (1910) PDF
download
Hodge, John W. Corean
Words
and
Phrase,
Being
a
Handbook
and
Pocket Dictionary for Visitors to Corea and New Arrivals in the
Country. Seoul: The Seoul Press --- Hodge & Co.,1902.
Homer B. Hulbert, The
Passing of Korea (1906) PDF
download
Homer B. Hulbert, The
History of Korea, Volume 1 (1905) PDF
download
Homer B. Hulbert, The
History of Korea, Volume 2 (1905) PDF
download
H.B. Hulbert, The
History of Korea [vol. 1]. Seoul: The Methodist Publishing
House, 1905.
H.B. Hulbert, The
History of Korea [vol. 2]. Seoul: The Methodist Publishing
House, 1905.
H.B. Hulbert, Passing
of Korea. New York: Doubleday, 1906.
Homer B. Hulbert (editor) The Korea Review, Volume 1 (1901) PDF
of a corrected OCR text
Homer B. Hulbert (editor) The
Korea Review, Volume 2 (1902)
PDF of a corrected OCR text
Homer B. Hulbert (editor) The
Korea
Review, Volume 3 (1903) PDF
of a corrected OCR text
Homer B. Hulbert (editor) The
Korea
Review, Volume 4 (1904) PDF
of a corrected OCR text
Homer B. Hulbert (editor) The
Korea Review, Volume 5 (1905) PDF
of a corrected OCR text
George Heber Jones, Korea,
the
land, people, and customs (1907) PDF
download
George Heber Jones, The
Bible
in Korea (1916) PDF
download
Emily Georgiana Kemp, The
Face of Manchuria, Korea and Russian Turkestan (1911) PDF
download
Carlton Waldo Kendall, The
truth
about Korea (1919)
F. H. King. Farmers
of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and
Japan (1911) (Project Gutenberg)
Kiriyama Sainosuke. Chosen
of To-day: Illustrated. Keijo: Chikasawa Printing House,
1929
George Trumbull Ladd, In
Korea
with Marquis Ito (1908) PDF
download
Arnold Henry Savage Landor, Corea,
or Cho-sen: the land of the morning calm (1895) PDF
download
A. Henry Savage Landor Corea or Cho-sen
(1895) - An HTML version with fully scanned pictures is available here.
(Project Gutenberg)
Joseph H. Longford, The
Story of Korea. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1911.
Percival Lowell, Choson:
The Land of the Morning Calm. Boston: Tickner, 1886.
Percival Lowell, Chosön,
the land of the morning calm; a sketch of Korea by
1855-1916. Published 1888
Claudiu Madrolle, Northern
China, the valley of the Blue River, Korea (1912) PDF
download
Elizabeth A. McCully, A
Corn of Wheat: The Life of W. J. McKenzie of Korea (1904) PDF
download
Fred Arthur McKenzie, The
colonial policy of Japan in Korea (1906) PDF
download
F. A. McKenzie, The
Tragedy of Korea (1908) PDF
download
Fred Arthur McKenzie, Korea’s
Fight
for Freedom (1920) PDF
download
F. A. McKenzie Korea’s
Fight for Freedom (1920) (on another site a PDF file)
(Project Gutenberg)
Louise Jordan Miln, Quaint
Korea (1895) PDF
Download
John M'Leod, Narrative
of a voyage in His Majesty's late ship Alceste . . .
(1817) PDF
download
J. Robert Moose, Village Life in
Korea (1911) PDF
download
William Arthur Noble, Ewa,
A Tale of Korea (1906) PDF
download
W. Arthur Noble, Ewa:
a
Tale of Korea. New York: Eaton & Mains, 1906.
Henry Davenport Northrop & John Russell Young, The
Flowery
Kingdom and the Land of the Mikado, or China Japan and Corea .
. (1894) PDF
download
Ernst Jakob Oppert. Ein
verschlossenes Land, Reisen nach Corea. Deutsche
Originalausg. Brockhaus. 1880.
Ernest Oppert, A Forbidden
Land ; Voyages to the Corea. London: Sampson, Low, Marston,
Searle, and Rivington, 1880.
Pictorial
Chosen and Manchuria. Seoul: The Bank of Chosen, 1919.
Henry Lee Mitchell Pike Our Little Korean
Cousin (1905) - Online version complete with the
original pictures here.
(Project Gutenberg)
Arthur Loton Ridger, A
Wanderer's Trail: being a faithful record of travels in many lands
(1914) esp. chapters 12-14 about Korea. PDF
download
William Woodville Rockhill, Korea's
Intercourse with China (1905) PDF
download
John Ross, Corean
Primer (1877) PDF
download
James Scott, A
Korean Manual or Phrase Book (1893) PDF
download
Frederick Starr, Korean
Buddhism (1918) PDF
download
Anna M. Stoddart, The
life
of Isabella Bishop (1906) PDF
download
Mark Napier Trollope, The
Church in Corea (1915) PDF
download
Horace Grant Underwood, The
Call of Korea: political, social, religious (1908) PDF
download
Horace Grant Underwood. An
Introduction to the Korean Spoken Language. (1914) PDF
download
Horace Horton Underwood, Modern
education in Korea
Lillias H. Underwood, With
Tommy Tompkins in Korea (1905) PDF
download
Lillias H. Underwood, Fifteen
Years
among the Topknots or Life in Korea (1904) PDF
download
L. H. Underwood, Fifteen
Years
Among
the
Top-Knots
or
Life
in
Korea. Boston: American Tract Society, 1904.
Lillias H. Underwood, Underwood
of
Korea (1918) PDF
download
Peter Vay, Empires and
Emperors of Russia, China, Korea and Japan (1906) PDF
download
Wagner, Ellasue
Canter. Kim
Su Bang and Other Stories of Korea. Nashville: M.E. Church,
South, 1909.
Henry James Whigham, Manchuria
and Korea (1904) PDF
download
Francis Edward Younghusband, The
heart of a continent : a narrative of travels in Manchuria, across
the Gobi Desert, through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral,
1884-1894 (1896)
Internet Archive Books about Korea
in French
Charles Dallet, Histoire de l'Eglise de Coree (1874) Volume One;
Volume Two
Complete text of the Introduction about
Korea.
Dictionnaire
coreen-francais (1880) PDF
download
(Félix Clair Ridel) : Grammaire
coréenne: précédée d'un introduction sur le caractère de la
langue coréenne, sa comparaison avec le chinois, etc., suivie d'un
appendice sur la division du temps, les poids et mesures, la
boussole, la généalogie, avec un cours d'exercices gradués pour
faciliter l'étude pratique de la langue. 1881.
R. Villetard de Laguérie, La
Coree, independante, russe, ou japonaise: ouvrage contenant
cinquante illustrations d'apres des photographies 1898
Maurice Jametel,
La Corée avant les Traités: souvenirs de voyages. 1885
Georges Ducrocq, Pauvre
et
Douce Corée. 1904 5eme edition.
Camille Auguste Jean Sainson trad., Les
Origines de la Corée: (extrait du Tong-kouo-thong-kienn), 1895
Fernand Scherzer trad, Journal
d’une
Mission en Coréé par Kuei-ling (ambassadeur de S.M. l’Empereur
de la Chine, 1866) 1877
Maurice Courant, Bibliographie
Coréenne Tableau Littéraire De La Coree Contenant la
nomenclature des ouvrages publiés dans ce pays jusqu'en 1890 ainsi
que la description et l'analyse détaillées des principaux d'entre
ces ouvrages.
Arthur Piacentini, Mgr
Ridel, évêque de Philippolis, vicaire apostolique de Corée :
d'après sa correspondance. 1890. PDF
download
Vie
de
Michel Alexandre Petitnicolas : prêtre de la Société des
Missions-Étrangères décapité pour la foi en Corée le 12 mars 1866 .
1891
M. Le Colonel Chaille-Long-Bey, La Corée
ou Tchösen (la terre du calme matinal) 1894. PDF
download
Jean-Baptiste Du Halde S.J., (1674-1743), Description géographique,
historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la
Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise, enrichie des cartes générales et
particulieres de ces pays, de la carte générale et des cartes
particulieres du Thibet, & de la Corée; & ornée d'un grand
nombre de figures & de vignettes gravées en tailledouce (revised
edition 1736) Volume
1 (Vol
1 PDF dowload); Volume
2 (Vol
2 PDF download); Volume
3 (Vol
3 PDF download); Volume
4 (Vol
4 PDF download)
[observations geographiques + historiques etc sur la Corée à partir
de page 529 – 560 du volume 4]
Charles Varat, Voyage en Coree (Tour du
Monde 1892)
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Journal Articles from the
University of Oregon Digital Library
Attack
on the Top Knot. The Korean Repository, Vol. III
(July, 1896), pp. 263-272.
Avison, O.R. Cholera
in Seoul. The Korean Repository, Vol. II (September,
1895), pp 339-344.
Avison, O.R. Disease
in Korea. The Korean Repository, Vol. IV (March,
1897), pp. 207-211
Boots, J.L. Korean
Musical
Instruments
and
An
Introduction
to
Korean
Music. Transactions of the Korea Branch of the Royal
Asiatic Society, Vol. XXX, (1940), pp. 1-32.
Bowman, N.H. History
of Korean Medicine. Transactions of the Korea Branch of
the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. VI, Part I (1915), pp. 1-34.
Gale, Jas. S. Korean
Coolie. The Korean Repository, Vol.III (December,
1896), pp. 475-481.
Gale, Jas. S. Trip
Across Northern Korea. The Korean Repository, Vol.IV
(March,1897), pp. 81-89
Gale, Jas. S. Hanyang
(Seoul). Transactions of the Korea Branch of the Royal
Asiatic Society, Vol. II, Part II (1902), pp. 1-43.
Gale, Jas. S. "The
Korean Alphabet". Transactions of the Korea Branch of
the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. IV, Part I (1912), pp.
13-61.
Gale, Jas. S. Selection
and Divorce. Transactions of the Korea Branch of the
Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. IV, Part III (1913), pp. 17-22.
Gale, Jas. S. Shipwreck
(Korean) in 1636 A.D., Transactions of the Korea Branch
of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. XV (1924), pp. 1-22.
Gifford, Daniel L. "Ancestral
Worship as Practiced in Korea". The Korean Repository,
Vol. I (June, 1892), pp. 169-176.
Goodrich, L.
Carrington. Sino-Korean
Relations
at
the
End
of
the
XIV
Century. Transactions of the Korea Branch of the Royal
Asiatic Society, Vol. XXX, (1940), pp. 33-46.
.His
Majesty, the King of Korea. The Korean Repository,
Vol. III (November, 1896), pp. 424-431
Hulbert, Homer B. Korean
Vocal Music. The Korean Repository, Vol. III
(February, 1896), pp. 45-53.
Hulbert, H.B. The
Geomancer. The Korean Repository, Vol.III (October,
1896), pp. 387-391.
Hulbert, H.B. Itu.
The Korean Repository, Vol.V (February, 1898), pp.47-54.
Hulbert, Homer B. Japan
in Korea. Journal of Race Development, Vol.10, No.3
(January, 1920), pp. 270-277.
Hunt, Charles. Some
Pictures and Painters of Corea. Transactions of the
Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. XIX (1930),
pp. 1-34.
Jones, George Heber. The
Japanese Invasion. The Korean Repository (January,
1892), pp. 10-16; (February, 1892), pp. 46-50: (April, 1892), pp.
116-121; (May, 1892), pp. 147-152; (June, 1892), pp. 182-188;
(July, 1892), pp. 217-222; (October, 1892), pp. 308-311.
Jones, George Heber. Some
Aspects of Reform in Korea. The Journal of Race
Development, Vol. 1 (July, 1910), pp. 18-35.
Junkin, William M.
Tong
Hak. The Korean Repository, Vol. II (February,
1895), pp. 56-61.
Koons, E.W. Afforestation
in Korea. Transactions of the Korea Branch of the Royal
Asiatic Society, Vol. VI --- Part I (1915), pp. 35-42.
Korean
Ginseng. The Korean Repository, Vol. V (May, 1898),
pp. 161-170.
Ladd, George Trumbull "Economic
and Social Change in Korea". The Journal of Race
Development, Vol. 1 (July, 1910), pp. 248-253.
Landis, E.B. Geomancy
in Korea. The Korean Repository, Vol.V (February,
1898), pp.41-46.
Lay, Arthur Hyde. "Marriage
Customs of Korea". Transactions of the Korea Branch of
the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. IV, Part III (1913), pp.
1-15.
MacNair, Harley
Farnsworth. Pilgrimage
to the Diamond Mountains. China Journal of Science and
Arts, Vol. 1, No. 6 (November, 1923), pp 573-579.
Miura, C. The
Problem of Korean Assimilation. The Japan Magazine,
Vol. XII, no.I-III ( July-August, 1921) pp. 130-134.
Moffett, S.A. Suggestions
on Travelling in Korea. The Korean Repository
(November, 1892), pp. 325-330.
Nocentini, Ludovico. "Names
of
the
Sovereigns
of
the
Old
Corean
States, and Chronological Table of the Present Dynasty". Journal
of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. XXII,
New Series (1887), pp. 90-99.
Paske, J. The
Corean School System. East of Asia Magazine, Vol. II
(1903), pp. 24-30.
Rufus, W. Carl. "The
Celestial Planisphere of King Yi Tai-jo". Transactions
of the Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. IV,
Part III (1913), pp. 23-72.
Scherzer, F. "Corea".
Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society,
Vol. XVIII, New Series (1883), pp. 25-36.
Seven
Months Among the Tong Haks. The Korean Repository,
Vol. II (June, 1895), pp. 201-208
Starr, Frederick. Korean
Buddhism. The Journal of Race Development, Vol. 11,
No. 1 (July, 1918), pp. 71-84.
Trumbull, George. The
Development of Korea in Most Recent Times. The Journal
of Race Development, Vol. 8, No.4 (April, 1918), pp.
431-438.
Underwood, Horace
H. Occidental
Literature on Korea. Transactions of the Korea Branch of
the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. XX (1931), pp. 1-186,i-xvi.
Van Buskirk, J.D. Some
Common Korean Foods. Transactions of the Korea Branch of
the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. XIV (1923), pp. 1-8.
Wilkinson, W.H. Korean
Chess. The Korean Repository, Vol. II (March,1895),
pp. 88-95.
See also:
The Korean
Repository Volume 1 (1892) from the Hathi Trust
The
Korean
Repository Volume 3 (1896) from Internet Archive
Administrative
reforms in Korea; articles reprinted from the "Seoul Press"
(1919) indicating the Japanese response to the 3.1 Movement etc
In 1913, Sekino Tadashi began work on the first volume of the "Chosen
koseki zufu" (朝鮮古蹟圖譜 조선고적도보 Joseon Gojeok Dobo) series
(Album of ancient sites and monuments of Joseon), fifteen
magnificent volumes of photos and drawings of ancient Korean objects
and sites published 1915-1935. This and other publications by him
were the origin of the present list of Korean National Treasures. A
complete set of images of every volume can be seen here and
magnificent PDF files of each volume are available:
Volume
1 낙랑대방군· 고구려 樂浪帶方郡 ·高句麗
Volume
2 고구려성지급고분 高句麗城址及古墳
Volume
3 백제,임나,옥저,예,고신라 百濟,任那,沃沮,濊·,古新羅
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4 신라통일시대(불교유적) 新羅統一時代(佛敎遺蹟)
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5 신라통일시대(왕릉,불상,탑내발견품) 新羅統一時代(王陵,佛像,塔內發見品)
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6 고려(성지,궁지,석탑,기타석조물) 高麗(城址,宮址,石塔,基他石造物)
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7 고려(석탑,불상,능묘,석관,묘지,탑지) 高麗(石塔,佛像,陵墓,石棺,墓誌,塔誌)
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8 고려(도자기) 高麗(陶磁器)
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9 고려(분묘내발견공예품) 高麗(墳墓內發見工藝品)
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10 조선시대(궁전건축) 朝鮮時代(宮殿建築)
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11
조선시대(성곽,학교,문묘,객사,사고,서원등건조물)朝鮮時代(城郭,學校,文廟,客舍,史庫,書院等建造物)
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12 조선시대(불사건축기1) 朝鮮時代(佛寺建築基1)
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13 조선시대(불사건축기2,탑파,묘탑,석비,교량)
朝鮮時代(佛寺建築基2,塔婆,墓塔,石碑,橋梁)
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14 조선시대(회화) 朝鮮時代(繪畵)
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15 조선시대(도자기) 朝鮮時代(陶磁器)
Nearly 4,000 volumes of ancient (Joseon era) Korean books mostly in
Classical Chinese from the C. V. Starr East Asian
Library, University of California, Berkeley, can be read
online or downloaded in PDF through Internet Archive.
Catalogue of
an exhibition of poetry books and fiction published in Korea
between 1945 and 1950. At the library of the University of
Washington, Seattle.
Link to books for sale by the
RASKB