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Korea
Republic of Korea ("South Korea")
Taehan-min'guk [or Daehan Min-kuk]
Constitution | Executive | Judicial | Legislative | Legal Guides | General Sources
Constitution
- International Constitutional Law: South Korea (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) offers English translation and Background Note
Executive
- President
- Prime Minister
- Korea Government - in Korean with English
- KOIS: Korean Information Service
Judicial
Legislative
- OFFICIAL GAZETTE: Kwanbo
- PARLIAMENT: Kukhoe [National Assembly]
- GLIN: Global Legal Information Network (Law Library of Congress) offers 2,897 searchable English-language abstracts of laws, decrees and regulations from October 1948 to October 2004, with full-text access
- Comprehensive Legal Information Service System (Ministry of Legislation/Supreme Court) includes a guide in English
- NATLEX: Korea (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights
Legal Guides
- GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
- Multinational Collections Database: South Korea (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
- AsianLII: Korea (South) (Asian Legal Information Institute)
- FindLaw: Korea (South)
- ForIntLaw: Republic of Korea (Washburn University Law Library)
- Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases - Korea (New York University Law Library)
- JURIST: South Korea (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
- Korean Bar Association in Korean
- Lawyers Directory (LawKorea.com) in Korean
- South Korean Law Research on the Internet (Hyeon-Cheol Kim and Inyoung Cho via GlobaLex)
- Web Guide to Free Legal and Compliance Resources on the Asia Pacific Region (Jane Macoustra via LLRX) June 3, 2002; includes Korea
- World Legal Information Institute: Korea (South) (WorldLII)
- World Legal Materials from Asia: Korea (Republic) (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
General Sources
- Country Study: South Korea (Library of Congress) June 1990
- Portals to the World: Korea (Library of Congress)
- Background Note: South Korea (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Korea, South (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- Consular Information Sheet: South Korea (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Country Information: Korea, South (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Country Reports on Economic Policy and Trade Practices, 1993-2001 (U.S. Dept. of State) see reporters listed under East Asia and the Pacific
- Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Republic of Korea (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Economic Briefing: South Korea (The Economist)
- Embassy of the Republic of Korea, Washington
- Governments on the WWW: Korea (Republic) (Gunnar Anzinger)
- Human Rights in Republic of Korea (Amnesty International)
- International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Korea, Republic of (U.S. Dept. of State)
- NATIONAL LIBRARY: National Library of Korea (in Korean); see English version
- NEWS: BBC World Service Asia-Pacific
- U.S. Embassy, Seoul (U.S. Dept. of State)
- World Factbook: Korea, South (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: South Korea (Google); Korea, South (Yahoo); WWW-VL Asian Studies: South Korea (Duke University)
Last Updated: 03/18/2008