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Research Currency

"Time is money." We hear that often enough, both inside and outside of business. Money is often the currency of choice, but time is more precious because it is irreplaceable and non-renewable (or, so it is at the time of this article). Money, on the other hand, is both replaceable and renewable. So what if I was to turn the statement around and say "Money is time."

Money is time would be closer to the researcher's reality. Most basically, money in the form of fellowships, scholarships, grants, stipends, and salaries is time for research. Many of the readers of this article understand this intimately as Korea Foundation fellows. What is becoming increasingly accepted in fields from business to research, however, is that "Time is knowledge" and "Money is knowledge." Think about the most-renowned knowledge institutions in the world-from Oxbridge to the University of Tokyo. In Korea, think of the so-called "SKY" universities and the Samsung Economic Research Institute. They are the ones with the largest budgets and/or longest histories. Knowledge, therefore, is time and money.

It is not hard to see how the Foucaultism, "Knowledge is power," was born and reborn. A whole new set of knowledge institutions have pushed the knowledge side of this equation in order to achieve power. They have innovated knowledge in order to save people time and make money. Here, I am thinking of things like Wikipedia, YouTube, Google, Naver, Cyworld, and the Hope Institute. All of these institutions effectively leverage knowledge to save time and make money. This is the meaning of knowledge management. So how can researchers go about effectively leveraging knowledge?

That is what I hope this brief article points the way toward for Koreanists. It is no coincidence that all of my examples of good knowledge managers work through the Internet. The Internet has been the knowledge manager's best friend and muse, and nowhere more than in Korea. I will therefore be confining my resource focus to the Internet as I present the academic and media sources, in both Korean and English, that have served me and others I know well.

I present these Internet resources in two lists: one for academic sources and the other for media sources. The academic resource list appears alphabetically with a short introduction, followed by the URL, and is divided according to language-Korean resources appearing first, followed by English ones. It is meant to supplement the numerous university sites that researchers are probably already familiar with, and so these resources are not included.

The media resource list is subdivided into Internet, print, and television categories_though these are becoming less and less mutually exclusive_with languages specified and URLs provided. These lists are in no way exhaustive; they are merely a reflection of what I, and others whom I have known, have found useful. Special thanks to Chad Futrell, Roberta Jenkins, Blaz Kriznik, Candice Lee, and Matty Wegehaupt for their kind suggestions, but I assume responsibility for any omissions or mistakes.

Knowledge is the currency of research in both senses of that slippery English word. It is money and time as if both were collapsed now, or current were turned into a noun: currency. How much could you be saving?




< Academic Resources >



Digital Korean Studies database, http://koreandb.kdaq.empas.com/

developed by the Academy of Korean Studies and the Korea Foundation, searchable by keyword and subject, particularly strong in Korean art, culture, folklore, literature, history, and religion; ;
Korean;


Korea Knowledge Portal http://www.knowledge.go.kr/index.jsp

is the official gateway to South Korean government s operated by the Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and Promotion;
Korean;


Korean History Online http://www.koreanhistory.or.kr/index.jsp

is an independent consortium of government and research institute databases with an especially rich website directory on history-related topics;
Korean/English;


Korean Studies Information Service System(KISS) http://kiss.kstudy.com/

is a private web of database services operated by the Korea Studies Information Company, Ltd.;
Korean;


National Assembly Library http://www.nanet.go.kr/

is the official gateway to South Korean legislative s;
Korean;


National Digital Library database http://www.dlibrary.go.kr/

links more than 70 databases from eight Korean universities and is the largest online source of pre-1950 Korea materials, particularly rich in the Japanese Occupation period;
Korean;


National Digital Science Library(NDSL)http://ndsl.or.kr/eng/newindex.html

is a consortium of Korean universities and institutes with access to thousands of science journals and databases;
Korean;


National Library of Korea http://www.nl.go.kr/

is the largest single housing of volumes and historical s in Korea;
Korean/English/Japanese/Chinese/Spanish/French/German;


National Institute of Korean History(NIKH) http://www.history.go.kr/front/index.jsp

is the official independent government agency that collects and publishes historical s;
Korean/English;


Research Service Information System(RISS) http://www.riss4u.net /index.jsp

is an academic search engine linking several major databases, including journals and dissertations, operated by the Korea Education and Research Information Service(KERIS);
Korean;


Women's History Knowledge System http://www.womenshistory.re.kr:7070/

is a portal site for women-related research in Korea operated by the Korea Women‘s Development Institute;
Korean;


Council on East Asia Libraries'(CEAL)http://wason.library.cornell.edu/CEAL/

Committee on Korean Materials is a Korean Studies bibliography organized by subject;
English;


Frank Hoffman's Korean Studieshttp://koreaweb.ws/

Portal includes lists of internet resources on a variety of Korea-related topics as well as a long-standing Korean Studies discussion board and review;
English;


Portal to Asian Internet Resources(PAIR)
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/PAIR/index.html

is searchable by atlas (East to Central Asia) and by keyword (from agriculture to human rights) and cooperatively operated by Ohio State University libraries, University of Minnesota libraries, and University of Wisconsin at Madison libraries;
English;





< Media Resources >



【Internet】


Daum

http://www.daum.net is a portal site and search engine;
Korean;


Empas

http://www.empas.com is a portal site and search engine;
Korean;


Korean Integrated News Database System (KINDS)

http://www.kinds.or.kr/ a comprehensive database of Korean news articles from 2001, operated by the Korea Press Foundation;
Korean;


Naver

http://www.naver.com. is a portal site and search engine;
Korean;

OhMyNews

http://www.ohmynews.comKorean
http://english.ohmynews.com/English
is a news site that includes netizen reporting and interactive features with a Korean and English edition.


Pressian

http://www.pressian.com
is a news site
Korean;


【Print】


Chosun,

Korea's oldest and largest-circulating newspaper generally perceived as right-wing, has a
(http://www.chosun.co.kr/) Korean
(http://english.chosun.com/) English,
(http://chinese.chosun.com) Chinese
(http://japanese.chosun.com/) Japanese
daily edition in addition to weekly and monthly magazines.


Donga,

one of Korea's largest circulating newspapers generally perceived as right-wing, has a
Korean(http://www.donga.com/)
English (http://english.donga.com/)
Chinese,(http://chinese.donga.com/gb/index.html)
Japanese (http://japanese.donga.com/) daily edition in addition to a monthly magazine.


Hankook

has a Korean (http://www.hankooki.com/) and sister
English (http://times.hankooki.com/) daily edition in addition to a weekly magazine.


Hankyoreh,
Korean (http://www.hani.co.kr/) and English (http://english.hani.co.kr/) daily edition in addition to a monthly magazine.


Joongang,

one of Korea's largest circulating newspapers, has a Korean (http://www.joins.com) and English (http://joongangdaily.joins.com/) daily edition in addition to a monthly magazine.


Korea Herald

has a korean daily edition(http://www.koreaherald.com)


Munhwa

has a Korean daily edition. (http://www.munhwa.co.kr)


Yonhap

is a wire news service; Korean/English;(http://www.yonhapnews.co.kr/)


【Television】


Arirang;

English;http://www.arirang.co.kr


Korean Broadcasting System (KBS)

is a public service broadcaster; Korean; http://www.kbs.co.kr


Munhwa Broadcasting Company (MBC)

Korean;http://www.mbc.co.kr


Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS);

Korean;http://www.sbs.co.kr




Amy Levine 
abl25@cornell.edu 
Korea Foundation Field Research Fellow 

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