East Asian Resources for Teachers: Korea

An online resource developed by the Korea Foundation to provide the broader access to information about Korean arts and culture. This website currently provides upcoming performances and exhibitions in Korea and worldwide, a database of Korean studies scholars and students, online lectures, and essays on Korean arts and culture.

"'About Korea' is a wonderful site, full of beauty, spirituality and information about the great country of Korea."

This site provides information about current artistic and cultural activities as well as Korea's traditional artisans, lifestyles, natural attractions and other topics related to Korea.

View and download pictures related to traditional Korean culture.

As part of the WWW Virtual Library Project, this is a huge collection of un-annotated but well organized links (including a search index) to all aspects of martial arts. Site contents include the following Korean Styles: Taekwondo, Kempo, and Hapkido.

Provides pictures and introductory articles about Korean culture, society and customs. Good place to look for pictures of Korea.

Provides articles about Korean culture, economics and politics as well as directory access to resources on arts/culture, business/economy, cities/provinces, computer/internet, education, government, news/media, science/technology, society/life, sports/recreation and travel. A section entitled, Learn about Korea, has information on language and culture, geography and people, history, national symbols and links to publications available from the Korean government. Includes links to different government sites and Korean newspapers.

A general history of Korea

Korean movie and drama database.

Requires free registration.

KBS World Radio, the voice of Korea, provides the easiest and most efficient way to learn the Korean language with entertaining lessons and tips with selected languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Indonesian, Chinese and Japanese).

Arirang Broadcasting’s “Let’s Speak Korean” offers viewers a televised language program. Viewers can also learn more about Korean culture in the process.

Founded for all levels of teachers of the Korean language, culture, and literature in the United States of America, AATK’s mission is to enhance and promote an interest in the teaching and learning of the Korean language, culture and literature as well as to carry out research in second language acquisition, applied linguistics, language pedagogy.

Features lesson plans, podcasts and other resources.

Lesson plans and resources related to Korea.

A collection of lesson plans from the Center for Korea Studies at UC Berkeley.

Mostly copyright free public domain maps, political, historical, topographic, thematic, etc.