07 Dec 2008

Center for Information on Korean Culture (CIKC)
The Academy of Korean Studies (AKS), Bundang, Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.
Self-description:
"The Center provides financial support to various civic groups and academic societies involved in projects to take countermeasures against historical distortions by Japan and China, in activities to introduce Korean culture and history to a wider audience outside Korea, or in the development of Korean studies teaching materials for overseas use."
SIte contents:
* Textbook Analysis [analyses of references to Korea in textbooks worldwide]; * Korean Studies (Grant, Cultural program, Conference, Korean Studies Net); * Material Development (Understanding Korrea materials, Journal [The Review of Korean Studies], Translation Grant, Group Support); * Resources (Publications, Photographs, Animations, Foreign Educational Systems, Resource Request); * Textbook Library [a collection of over 2,800 textbooks from 73 countries]; * Webzine [in Korean, http://www.ikoreawebzine.com/]; * Photographs [stock photographs - history, culture, business]; * E-books [11 titles from 2005 onwards]; * CIKC (Director's Greetings, Mission, History, Organization, Notice, Activities, Location).
URL http://www.ikorea.ac.kr/english/index.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ikorea.ac.kr/english/index.html
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30