The National Archives of Korea, part of the Ministry of the Interior, released 170,000 government publications online on Nov. 3. For easier searching, the records are organized by title, publication date, type and publishing organization.
A range of government publications produced between 1953 and 2014 have now been made publicly available online.
On Nov. 3, the National Archives of Korea, part of the Ministry of the Interior, released about 170,000 government records from its archives at www.archives.go.kr.
The documents include such records as whitepapers, statistics, collections of regulations and research papers published by central and provincial government bodies and other public organizations.
If you type ‘Ministry of the Interior’ into the search engine at www.archives.go.kr, it comes up with 1,178 records published by the ministry, including yearbooks, statistics, business reports, meeting reports and educational material.
The newly released publications include data from the 2015 Collection of Government Publications, a collection of 92,000 government records, along with information from a list of 235,000 records. They also include a new collection of 77,000 publications that were put together this year. The total amount of data available online accounts for around 72 percent of all data held in the National Archives of Korea.
This broad sweeping revelation is aimed at educating the public about what each government body does, and what policies and achievements it has pursued. The records are organized into a total of 14 categories, including research reports, with 73,000 records, statistics (23,000), organization brochures (21,000) and yearbooks (8,000 records).
The database can be explored using a regular search engine, and sorted by title, publication date, type or publishing organization.
“We will have more updates to our archives on a regular basis, so that the people can have easier access to government publications and also so that researchers can take more advantage of the data as they conduct their research,” said an official from the National Archives of Korea.
By Sohn JiAe
Korea.net Staff Writer
Photos: National Archives of Korea
jiae5853@korea.kr
