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Informational Sites

Birmingham Museum Korean Art Gallery
Webpage:www.artsbma.org/showglry.asp?I=D&G=Asian-Art:-Korean&A=0
Phone:205-254-2566

This Korean art gallery is the only one of its kind in the southern United States.

Books By Korean Americans
Webpage:www.komerica.com/menu/koamauthor.html

Book list of Korean American authors

Child's First Birthday
Webpage:www.lifeinkorea.com/culture/tol/tol.cfm

Information on a Korean first birthday celebration

CIA Factbook on North Korea
Webpage:www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/kn.html

Provides information on North Korea.

Click Asia
Webpage:www.clickasia.co.kr/about.htm

Holidays, myths, and cooking

Cultural Heritage Administration
Webpage:www.ocp.go.kr/english/new_eng/index_new.html

Provides information on Korean historic sites and cultural heritage

Culture And Personality
Webpage:www.culturepersonality.com/

A website exploring the relationship between culture and personality

Daily NK
Webpage:www.dailynk.com

This site is sponsored by Network for North Korean Democracy and Human Rights, based in Seoul, and it's tied in with international humanitarian NGO's and democratization organizations.

Dynamic-Korea.com
Webpage:www.dynamic-korea.com

On online news media for those living in the United States who are interested in Korea.

English Library Project in Seoul
Webpage:www.freewebs.com/hwawon/englishlibraryproject.htm

Facts About Korean Americans
Webpage:www.geocities.com/mokkim/kafacts.html

Global Taekwondo Network
Webpage:www.taekwon.net/

Information about Taekwondo

Grandma's Kitchen:The Fine Art of Korean Cooking
Webpage:www.jadedragon.com/archives/cooking/finekore.html

Bulgogi Recipe

Gwangju Uprising
Webpage:www.koreatruth.org/history.html

The Kwangju Rebellion was South Korea’s Tiananmen crisis, deeply shaping the broad resistance the dictatorship in the 1980s and paving the way for democratization in the 1990s. Learn the history at this website

Hanji
Webpage:koreanpaperarts.com/about/what.asp

Hanji craft has long been treasured as a form of art in Korea. It includes artwork as well as house wares made of Korean traditional handmade paper, called Hanji.

Julia's Cook Korean Site!
Webpage:www.geocities.com/ypmljulia/

Numerous kinds of Korean cooking

Korea For Kids
Webpage:www.curriculum.edu.au/accessasia/korea/kids.htm

Learn about Korea from Curriculum Corporation

Korea Infogate
Webpage:www.koreainfogate.com//

All sorts of information about Korea

Korea Net
Webpage:www.korea.net/

The Korean government's official website for news, press releases with archival search, multimedia services and other general information on Korea.

Korean American Churches On The Web
Webpage:www.kamr.org/sponsors/#

Listing of some Korean American Churches by state

Korean American Experience
Webpage:http://arirangeducation.com/main/

An interactive experience to learn about Korean Americans

Korean Animation
Webpage:www.puccaclub.com/

Pucca Club, click on English, click on Amusement to see the cartoons.

Korean Cartoons
Webpage:www.sambakza.net/

Korean Cinema Edition
Webpage:www.cinekorea.com/

A good site for information on Korean films and filmmakers

Korean Clothing and Food
Webpage:asiarecipe.com/korclothwomen.html

Information about Clothing and Food

Korean Colors
Webpage:www.seoulsearching.com/language/phrases/colors.html

Can you say your colors in Korean? Learn at this site.

Korean Film
Webpage:koreanfilm.org/

Alot of information about Korean film, including essays, actors and actresses, etc.

Korean Fonts
Webpage:ssessesse.x-y.net/acsesarymenu/font/hanfont1.htm

Want to be stylish when typing in Korean on your computer? This websites has free Korean fonts.

Korean Fonts Again
Webpage:babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/korean.html

Want to be stylish when typing in Korean on your computer? This websites has free Korean fonts.

Korean Language
Webpage:www.korean-language.org/

All kinds of information about the Korean Language

Korean Language Introduction
Webpage:www.langintro.com/kintro/

A good place to begin learning Korean

Korean National Tourist Organization (KNTO)
Webpage:english.tour2korea.com/

Alot of information for planning a trip to Korea

Korean Pop Video about adoption
Webpage:lb.avl.com.cn/avload/free3.jsp?mt=clip&mf=/vod1/yinyue/mtv/j026.wmv

The popstar acts as an adoptee returning to Korea to search for birth family. Includes referral pictures of adoptees

Korean Royalty
Webpage:www.royalty.nu/Asia/Korea.html

News, books, and information about Korean Royalty

Paper Artist Sun Ock Bong
Webpage:www.clickasia.co.kr/digicart/products/artist/art_9902.htm

Most of the people tend to think that paper are to write something on it but in the past Koreans made furniture with paper, all kind sort of daily life handicrafts.

Poongmul
Webpage:www.poongmul.com/poongmul/index.htm

In the old days, the music and dance were performed for days and nights to repel all the evil spirits or to celebrate planting of crops and harvesting. In fact, the music and dance performed by shamans are believed to be the origin of Poongmul-Nori.

Race, Ethnicity, and National Identity: America, Korea, and Biracial Koreans
Webpage:www.exeas.org/resources/korean-race-ethnicity.html

The readings and film presented here can be used in Sociology, Political Science, Women's/Gender Studies, or other courses that address race and ethnicity, gender and work, transnational feminism, international relations, social movements, and migration/immigration.

Taegukki Campaign
Webpage:korea.co.kr/korea/taegukki.html

Numerous images of the South Korean flag

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