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<div><font color="#002060">Dear Korean Studies Scholars, </font></div>
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<div><font color="#1F497D">On behalf of the <a href="http://www.kf.or.kr/eng/06_res/res_not_view.asp?BBS_NO=3438&BASETYPE=BBS"><font color="blue"><b><u>Korea Foundation</u></b></font></a>, the Subcommittee on Korean Studies E-Resources would like to announce
<font color="black"><b>The Support for Korean Studies e-Resources </b></font><b>(2012). </b>We sincerely hope that institutions without any Korean studies librarian, in special, take full advantage of this grant program. Please share the following information
with librarians at your own institution.</font></div>
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<li>Object of the Support program:</li></font>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;"><font color="#1F497D">In response to the growing significance of online resources for education and research purpose, the Korea Foundation provides program support to eligible universities to offset the user/subscription fees
that are required to access online Korean Studies e-Resources, for the benefit of Korea-related scholars and students. This program thus serves to complement the existing materials distribution program. </font></div>
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<li>Summary of the Support program</li></font>
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<li>Application deadline: March 12, 2012</li><li>Notification: by the end of March, 2012</li><li>Scope of Support: up to 50% of the user/subscription fees, but not to exceed $5,000</li><li>Applicable e-resources: online databases, e-journals, e-books, and other online resources offered by public institutions or private parties, such as e-Korean Studies (KISS, KSI e-book, Korea A2Z, Kdatabase, Kpjournal, LawnB), Nurimedia(DBpia, KRpia), e-articles,
Kyobo Scholar, New-Nonmun, newspaper archives, RISS International, etc.</li></font>
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<div><font color="#1F497D">Please complete the program application form and submit it to the Foundation, by email (<a href="mailto:kmbang@kf.or.kr"><font color="blue"><u>kmbang@kf.or.kr</u></font></a>) or postal mail postmarked <b><u>no later than March 12,
2012. </u></b>The selected recipients will be notified individually by late March 2012. Please see attached documents for detailed information.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#1F497D">For detailed information on the Support program, please visit the <a href="http://www.kf.or.kr/eng/06_res/res_not_view.asp?BBS_NO=3438&BASETYPE=BBS"><font color="blue"><u>Foundation website</u></font></a><font color="black"> </font><font color="#002060">.
For any inquiries about the Support program or the application procedures, please contact;</font></font></div>
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<div> Ms. Kyung-Min Bang</div>
<div> Program Officer</div>
<div> Media and Public Relations Center, The Korea Foundation</div>
<div> e-mail: <a href="mailto:kmbang@kf.or.kr"><font color="blue"><u>kmbang@kf.or.kr</u></font></a></div>
<div style="text-indent:36pt;">Tel; <font face="Arial" size="2" color="#555555"><span style="font-size:10pt;">82-2- 2151-6543</span></font></div>
<div style="text-indent:36pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#555555"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Address: West 19F, Mirae Asset Center 1 Building, 67 Suha-dong, Jung-gu, Seoul 100-210 Korea</span></font></div>
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<div><font color="#1F497D">For detailed information on Korean database products or Korean e-resources, please refer to <a href="http://guides.library.duke.edu/korean_eresources"><font color="blue"><u>http://guides.library.duke.edu/korean_eresources</u></font></a>
and contact each database vendors directly.</font></div>
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<li><b>e-Koreanstudies </b><a href="http://www.e-koreanstudies.com/"><font color="blue"><u>http://www.e-koreanstudies.com</u></font></a></li></ul>
<div> Mr. Junho Lim <<a href="mailto:jhlim@epanmun.co.kr"><font color="blue"><u>jhlim@epanmun.co.kr</u></font></a>></div>
<div> Tel: 82-2-2063-0606<b> </b></div>
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<li><b>Nurimedia </b><a href="http://nanc.nurimedia.co.kr/"><font color="blue"><u>http://nanc.nurimedia.co.kr</u></font></a></li></ul>
<div> Mr. Jeha Yeon <<a href="mailto:yjh@nurimedia.co.kr"><font color="blue"><u>yjh@nurimedia.co.kr</u></font></a>> or <<a href="mailto:global@nurimedia.co.kr"><font color="blue"><u>global@nurimedia.co.kr</u></font></a>></div>
<div> Tel: 82-2-710-5311</div>
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<li><a href="http://guides.library.duke.edu/content.php?pid=94649&sid=1527213"><font face="Calibri" color="#333333"><b>Other Databases</b></font></a><font face="Calibri"> </font><a href="http://guides.library.duke.edu/content.php?pid=94649&sid=1527213"><font face="Calibri" color="blue"><u>http://guides.library.duke.edu/content.php?pid=94649&sid=1527213</u></font></a></li></font>
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<div>For any other comments and questions on Korean Studies E-Resources, please contact the Subcommittee members listed below. </div>
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<div>Best, </div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://guides.library.duke.edu/korean_eresources"><font face="Calibri" color="blue"><b><u>Subcommittee on Korean Studies E-Resources</u></b></font></a></font></div>
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<div>Hee-Sook Shin<b> </b>(<a href="mailto:hs2148@columbia.edu"><font color="blue"><u>hs2148@columbia.edu</u></font></a>), Columbia University</div>
<div>Mikyung Kang (<a href="mailto:mlkang@fas.harvard.edu"><font color="#0000E0"><u>mlkang@fas.harvard.edu</u></font></a>), Harvard University</div>
<div>Miree Ku (<a href="mailto:miree.ku@duke.edu"><font color="#0000E0"><u>miree.ku@duke.edu</u></font></a>), Duke University <font color="#1F497D">(Chair)</font></div>
<div>Sun-Yoon Lee (<a href="mailto:sunyoonl@usc.edu"><font color="#0000E0"><u>sunyoonl@usc.edu</u></font></a>), University of Southern California</div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="2" color="#1F497D"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Miree Ku</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="2" color="#1F497D"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Korean Studies Librarian</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="2" color="#1F497D"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Duke University, 227 Bostock</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="2" color="#1F497D"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Box 90195, Durham, NC 27708-0195</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="2" color="#1F497D"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Tel: 919-660-5817 </span></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="2" color="#1F497D"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Fax: 919-668-3134</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="2" color="#1F497D"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Email: <a href="mailto:miree.ku@duke.edu"><font color="blue"><u>miree.ku@duke.edu</u></font></a></span></font></div>
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