A Research Guide and a bibliography for Korean

By Jootaek (Juice) Lee

Jootaek Lee is a Reference/Internal Instructional Services Librarian and Librarian Assistant Professor at the University of Miami School of Law. He is also a member of the Florida Bar since 2006. He received a B.A. from Korea University where he also received an LL.M. in international law. Jootaek completed his J.D. at Florida State University, where he was also awarded M.L.S. He was a co-presenter at the CALI 2009 Conference on Introducing and Integrating Free Internet Legal Research into the Classroom. His paper of the same title is available on SSRN.

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I. Introduction

This research guide with a bibliography attempts to help American legal scholars, law students, legal practitioners, and law librarians to conduct research on the law of the Republic Korea (South Korea). The guide focuses on bibliographies, indexes, research guides, online databases, and books written or translated in English. In order to help Korean law researchers determine how useful or important a research tool is for its specific research purpose, the guide also provides a brief annotation for indexes and bibliographies, research guides, and databases. In the last chapter, the guide includes a bibliography related to Korean law under the title, “Books,” where I selectively compiled about 240 books and doctoral dissertations in English Korean law that researchers can get in the United States either through their own library or through interlibrary loan request.

II. Bibliographies

Bibliography of Asian Studies / Association of Asian Studies (Ann Arbor, Mich.)

  • Printed form is available from 1941 to 1991 period, and starting from 1991, the Bibliography of Asian Studies Online was launched with digitalized books, journal articles, conference proceedings, etc. from 1971. The online bibliography allows users to search and browse by journal title and country. This bibliography separately compiled materials from Korea, and divided them into different subjects such as Anthropology & Sociology, Arts, Biography, Communication & Media, Economics, Education, General & Miscellaneous, Geography, History, Language, Library & Information Sciences, Literature, Philosophy & Religion, Politics & Government, Psychology & Psychiatry, and Science & Technology. It classified legal materials under Politics and Governments and provides bibliographical information on more than 450 materials.

Introduction to Korean Legal Materials / Yong-Hui Kim (Seoul, Korea; originally published in Journal of Korean Law, v. 2, no. 1, 2002, pp. 125-66), also available here (last visited March 26, 2010).

  • This research guide on Korean legal materials provides comprehensive legal materials and annotations for researching Korean law. This guide introduces Romanization of Korean, Korean citation rules, dictionaries, Korean legal system, and four major Korean collections in the Untied States. Furthermore, it provides various legal titles for Korean codes and cases in addition to Korean indexes and databases. This guide has not been updated since 2002; hence, many online hyperlinks and books provided are outdated.

Korean Bibliography / Library of Congress (last visited March 26, 2010)

  • “The Korean Section of the Library of Congress has prepared a bibliography of approximately 4,800 records of books about Korea in English up to 1995 held by the Library of Congress.” This resource is comprehensive and user-friendly, and users can search by keywords, author, title, and subject. This bibliography provides bibliographical information on more than 110 legal materials in English.

Bibliographies before 1990

  • Kim, Chong-won & Carolyn Campbell Kim. 1970. Bibliography of materials on Korean law in the Harvard University libraries.
  • Baik, ChungSook. 1980. Korean law: An annotated bibliography of English-language monographs. Washington, D.C.: Law Library, Library of Congress.
  • T Susanne Lee. 1983. “Korean law: A selective bibliographical guide” in Korean Journal of International and Comparative Law (Former Korean Journal of Comparative Law), vol. 11, p.163-189. / Korea Journal of International and Comparative Law.

III. Indexes

Index to Legal Periodicals: Legal Periodicals & Books & Legal Periodicals Retro / The H.W. Wilson Company

  • Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective “indexes nearly 900 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand” and covers from 1908 to 1981. Using Index to Legal periodicals & Books, users also can search more than 1,000 legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks, institutes, statutes, bar association publication, university publications, and government publications. In both databases, there are more than 120 articles on Korean law and legal issues in Korea from 1948. If a user wants to get a full text article, he ought to subscribe to Index to Legal Periodicals Full text.

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals /American Association of Law Libraries

  • “Produced by the American Association of Law Libraries, the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP) is the preeminent multilingual index to articles and book reviews appearing in 470 legal journals published worldwide.” Coverage starts from 1985. This database allows users to find reference on more than 400 articles on Korean law, legal system, and legal issues in Korea. Journals, which contain Korean law articles, include Journal of Korean Law, Seoul Law Journal, Korea University Law Review, Korean Journal of Comparative Law, etc.

Legal Trac /Gale

  • This database allows users to search more than 875 titles including law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals, and newspapers. Coverage starts from 1980. The database also allows users to browse contents by topic, and Korean articles from academic journals, magazines, and news are indexed under “South Korea.” There are references and sometimes, full text links to about 100 articles on Korean law and legal issues in Korea. Most periodicals, which contain Korean law, are published in the United States.

Index Master

  • This database allows users to search index and table of contents of secondary legal titles. They “compiled thousands of titles from large and small legal publishers … and provided the actual index and tables of content” in the PDF file format. Index and table of contents of more than thousand books in this database contain the Korean-related contents.

IV. Research Guides

Foreign Law Guide: Current Sources of Codes and Basic Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World / Thomas H. Reynolds & Arturo A. Flores. Littleton, Colo.: F.B. Rothman, 1989-1998 (currently published only online).

  • This subscription database introduces brief history, backgrounds of Korean law, and provides useful research tips in Korean law research. This guide also provides a comprehensive list of names of session laws and authoritative resources for150 subjects and a useful tool to foreign legal practitioners.

Guide to International Legal Research / Geo. Wash. Int’l L. Rev. Newark, NJ: Matthew Bender, 2009.

  • Chapter four of this book provides a comprehensive bibliographical list of Korean legal resources with Chinese and Japanese legal resources. The chapter is divided into four government resources, legal resources, media resources, and resources by topic. Government resources include constitutions, international treaties, general legislation, and administrative law; legal resources include court system, reporters, treatises, and law journals; media resources include newspapers, non-legal journals; specialized legal resources by topic include civil law and civil procedure, civil rights, criminal law, environmental law, family law, human rights, intellectual property, labor law, maritime law, military law, property, rule of law, commercial code, banking, foreign investment, import/export, business, and competition law.

Guide to Law Online / Law Library of Congress / Nations of the World / Korea (last visited March 19, 2010)

  • This guide provides online hyperlinks to various websites including Korean governments and official government publishers. It is organized into Constitution, executive, judicial, legislative, legal guides, and general sources.

Introduction to Korean Legal Materials / Yong-Hui Kim (Seoul, Korea; originally published in Journal of Korean Law, v. 2, no. 1, 2002, pp. 125-66), also available here (last visited March 26, 2010).

  • This research guide on Korean legal materials provides comprehensive legal materials and annotations for researching Korean law. This guide introduces Romanization of Korean, Korean citation rules, dictionaries, Korean legal system, and four major Korean collections in the Untied States. Furthermore, it provides various legal titles for Korean codes and cases in addition to Korean indexes and databases. This guide has not been updated since 2002; hence, many online hyperlinks and books provided are outdated.

Korean Legal Research at the University of Washington / William B. McCloy, updated by Rob Britt, Feb. 1, 2010, available here (last visited March 26, 2010)

  • This guide provides up-to-date and comprehensive information on Korean law sources in both English and Korean. It covers Romanization of Korean, citation style, dictionaries, other research guides on Korean law, finding tools for books, journal articles, newspapers, and edited volumes. It also provides collections and tools for searching codes and cases in both English and Korean, and introduces various official websites of Korean governments.

“Republic of Korea Law Digest” in Martindale-Hubbell International Law Digest / Kim & Chang, New Providence, NJ: LexisNexis, 2006.

  • Martindale-Hubbell International Law Digest provides “summaries of statutory law compiled and revised by distinguished lawyers and legal scholars of the respective countries for 80 countries, arranged by main subject categories, then topics and subheadings.” The latest version is 2006, and summaries that are more recent are available in Lexis. The “Republic of Korea Law Digest” in print covers legislation by 2005, and was written by attorneys in one of the biggest law firms in Korea. The digest provides practical tips for legal practitioners, and contains 23 different topics. Topics are arranged alphabetically, and main topics are business regulation and commerce, civil actions and procedures, alternative dispute resolution, employment, environment, estates and trusts, family, foreign trade and commerce, immigration, intellectual property, taxation, and treaties. Each topic is further divided into several subtopics, which have summaries of relevant law and citations to sources.

South Korean Law Research on the Internet / Hyeon-Cheol Kim & Inyoung Cho, Jan. 2008, updated Feb. 2010, (last visited March 26, 2010)

  • This research guide was prepared by two Korean judges and provides up-to-date information on internet legal resources, which contained Korean legal sources. With the introduction to the Korean legal system and a brief history of Korean law, the guide introduces various useful websites, where legal researchers can get full texts for Korean statutes, rules, regulations, treaties, cases, journals, news, etc. Most of the websites introduced, however, are in Korean.

V. Databases

Asian Legal Information Institute (AsianLII)

  • “The Asian Legal Information Institute is a non-profit and free access website for legal information from all 27 countries and territories in Asia…” The Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) is developing this database in cooperation with partner institutions in Asian countries, and the Korean Legislation Research Institute is helping AustLII include Korean legislation. This database allows users to search Laws of the Republic of Korea (1948-2008), Constitutions of Asian Countries (1987), and the Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) of the United States Law Library of Congress.

Constitutions of the Countries of the World

  • This database by Oceana contains texts of Constitution as amended to 1987 and the Constitution Court Act as amended to 2007. It also contains an in-depth article on Korean Constitution, and selected bibliographies on Korean Constitutions.

GLIN

  • The Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) allows users to search for official laws, judicial decisions, legislative records, and legal literature of 35 countries as of November 2008. Access to this database is free of charge. Korea is one of the contributing members. While more than 3,000 Korean legal sources are available in full texts in this database, most of them were published in Korean. English summaries and subject terms for each material are still provided.

HeinOnline

  • Journal of Korean Law (2001-2009), Korean Journal of International and Comparative Law (1973-2006), Asian Yearbook of International Law (1991-2002), Columbia Journal of Asian Law (1987-2009), Asian American Law Journal (1994-2008), Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal (2000-2009), and Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law & Policy (2006-2008)

Lexis

  • Lexis contains the Martindale-Hubbell Law Digest – Asian Law Digests database that contains the Republic of Korea Law Digest. A table of contents link provided next to the search box also allows users to browse by country and by topic. The “Republic of Korea Law Digest” provides 23 different topics. Each topic is further divided into several subtopics that have summaries of relevant law and citations to sources. The latest version incorporates legislation through Dec. 31, 2008. Lexis also provides Tax Analysts Worldwide Tax Treaties Combined Files, Collier International Business Insolvency Guide, Foreign Tax and Trade Briefs, International Agency & Distribution Agreements, International Computer Law, International Copyright Law and Practice, Intellectual Property Protection in Asia, and the Law of Advertising databases.

RIA Checkpoint

  • This database included the former Tax Laws of the World (1964-2006) and Commercial Laws of the World (1976-2005) under RIA Worldwide Tax & Commercial Law. Korean statutes on tax laws and commercial laws had been separately compiled under Korea until 2005, and after 2006, the laws are only available in the RIA Checkpoint database. The database allows ‘keywords’ search either in tax law or commercial law database after selecting Korea. The commercial law database contains Customs Act, the Commercial Code, Foreign Exchange Transactions Act, Foreign Trade Act, Financial Holding Companies Act, Commercial Act, Bank of Korea Act, Foreign Investment Promotion Act, Bills Law, and Checks Law.

Westlaw

  • Westlaw does not specifically deal with Korean law. However, it contains Korean newspaper databases such as Korea Times and some journal databases that have articles on Korean law and legal systems.

Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law & Policy (ASJWTO; 2006- );

Asian Journal of Women’s Studies (ASIANJWS; 2000- );

Columbia Journal of Asian Law (CLMJAL; 1987-(selected coverage); 1994-(full coverage)

VI. Books

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