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Studies
Information sources for the presentation about Korea
In Wikipedia
- Korea - The main article about korea
- Korean history is long and complicated - with the division of Korea to North Korea and South Korea being just about the only thing people elsewhere know about it
- Korean language is written in alphabets called Hangul, which is phonemic (like western writing) and has 14 consonants and 10 vowels, so it's really not very tought to learn.
Categories
- w:Category:Korea - a category that contains (most of) the articles in Wikipedia about Korea
- w:Category:South Korea
- w:Category:North Korea
Business specific
- Chaebol (jě'-bэl) is the Korean word for conglomerates (huge companies that operate in a wide field of business activities.
- List of South Korean companies
- List of North Korean companies
In other Wikimedia projects
- There is a Wikibook on Korean language
- Wikimedia Commons has pictures and other media from Korea that we can use in the presentation.
- commons:Category:South Korea - for media specific to the south
- commons:Category:North Korea - for media specific to the north
Future
- There is even an article on Korean reunification. Now how can that be enclopedic..?
Non-wikipedia sources
note that South Korean governmental domains end in go.kr so those domain give very authorative and concise information
Statistics and general information
- The CIA world factbook on South Korea - all the statistics we need
- The CIA world factbook on North Korea
Automatic translation Korean<->English
- http://babelfish.altavista.com/ - Babelfish can machine translate Korean to/from English either whole webpages (you can follow the links in the translated version) or other text (max 150 words)