Korean Studies Resources

There are two ways to search the records in Chinese/Japanese/Korean:

• Enter search using romanized characters
• Enter search in Chinese/Korean/Japanese characters

Korean Romanization Standards - McCune - Reischauer system

• McCune-Reichauer based system is quite different from the South Korean rules, you are strongly encouraged to try the tutorial below.

            McCune-Reichauer Romanization tutorial

 The libraries follow the romanization standards used in the Library of Congress.

• Library of Congress and American Library Association Romanization Table for Korean

South Korean Romaization Rules are different from those used in North American Libraries. 대한민국 국립국어원 표기법

• Romanization of Korean by National Institute of Korean Language, Republic of Korea 

A -- General Works

B -- Philosophy. Psychology. Religion

C -- Auxiliary Sciences Of History

D -- World History And History Of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Etc.

E -- History Of The Americas

F -- History Of The Americas

G -- Geography. Anthropology. Recreation

H -- Social Sciences

J -- Political Science

K -- Law

L -- Education

M -- Music And Books On Music

N -- Fine Arts

P -- Language And Literature

Q -- Science

R -- Medicine

S -- Agriculture

T -- Technology

U -- Military Science

V -- Naval Science

Z -- Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources (General)