General sites
Wikipedia has a long and ever-growing list of Korean related articles which you can browse at your leisure, and there?s general introduction to Korea here. In fact, you don’t really need my site. Frank’s Korean Studies Portal, has a wealth of links, while the government sponsored http://korea.net/ is a pretty comprehensive shopfront for further browsing, and the Korea Foundation (based in Seoul) covers most cultural bases. The Korea Telecom-sponsored KoreaInfogate looks like it might have been good at one point, but seems now not to be maintained.
Brother Anthony of Taize, a significant translator of Korean literature, has a site which contains some interesting material, including some pages in praise of Korean tea, one of the most under-appreciated (and most expensive) of Korea’s exports. On no account make it with boiling water.
For unadorned data, there’s the CIA’s pages on both North and South Korea
And I’m parking these links here for the moment, for want of anywhere better: the Samsung Economic Research Institute has an English language website which is a useful resource on the Korean economy; and the Anglican Network for Interfaith Concerns.
Cultural Organisations
In London…
- The Korean Cultural Centre - coming soon.
- CNE - Culture and Entertainment Ltd. Oh Tae-min and his small team achieve great things on very limited resources. Give them your support and your money.
- The Korean Cultural Promotion Agency, organises musical events both contemporary and traditional, and has an exciting programme for 2006.
- Asia House. As its name suggests, this organisation’s area of interest is wider than just Korean, but it has a good selection of Korean events.
Elsewhere…
- Korea Society (based in New York)
- Royal Asiatic Society, Korea branch has some good publications and an interesting programme of events, and looks well worth joining if you?re going to be in Korea for a while.
Academia and Korean Studies
- British Association for Korean Studies
- SOAS Centre of Korean Studies
- Association for Korean Studies in Europe
- Monterey Institute of International Studies
Koreans in London
- University of London Korean Society (website in Korean)
- Korean Anglican Community Centre
- Korean Professionals in London
- Embassy of the Republic of Korea - street address 60 Buckingham Gate, London, SW1E 6AJ. Tel: 020 7227 5500
- Embassy of the DPRK: no website as far as I am aware, but the street address is 73 Gunnersbury Park, Ealing Common, London, W5 4LP
- A document about Korean communities in London.
- Korean Residents Society (website in Korean), tel 020 8605 0050. Based in New Malden, the KRS organises a number of events, the biggest one being an open-air festival in the Fairfield recreation ground at Kingston.
Off-the-wall
Absolutely nothing to do with Korea, but worth a look:
The Bible in Lego: http://www.thebricktestament.com/
30-second bunny film library: http://www.angryalien.com/
