Korean Studies

Korean Studies Department Library

 On Wednesday the 20th March 2024 the library will only be open from 1pm to 4pm.

 For technical reasons, our holdings are marked as " non-lending ". However, the majority of our holdings can be borrowed!

Borrowing Information

  • A maximum of 5 books may be borrowed at a time.
  • The standard loan period is 14 days.
  • Books that are borrowed for writing a B.A. or M.A. Thesis may be borrowed for up to 28 days.
  • The loan period can be extended by 7 days per email (bibliothekspam prevention@koreanistik.uni-tuebingen.de) or in person, as long as the book has not been put on hold by another user.
  • If a book you want has already been borrowed, you can put it on hold. We will inform you by email when the book is available.
  • Books that are reserved for classes and books with a pink call number label cannot be borrowed from the library.

Finding books

Our books can be found using the following catalogues:

Katalog Plus

AOI-Catalog

The AOI catalog contains only the holdings of the AOI libraries (Ethnology, Indology, Japanese Studies, Oriental and Islamic Studies, Korean Studies, Chinese Studies) with better search and display functions for foreign characters. Therefore, this catalog should preferably be used when searching in Korean.

Cross Asia

Cross Asia provides access to electronic resources related to Korean studies that are not included in the licensing of the University of Tübingen.

To access the licensed databases, you must register on the Cross Asia website and then download the appropriate form. You will need to print this out and bring it to the secretary's office to have it stamped. Then, scan the form and email it to Cross Asia.

Link to the Virtual Library East and Southeast Asia "CrossAsia"

LTI Korea

The Literature Translation Institute of Korea provides free access to a wide range of Korean literature in English, German, and many other languages as e-books and audiobooks.

Link to the LTI Korea website


Focus Areas of the Collection

The Korean Studies Library contains approximately 20,000 books and holds the most extensive periodical collection of all Korean Studies seminars in Europe.

The library's areas of focus cover, in alphabetical order, the following areas:

Korean titles are transcribed according to the McCune-Reischauer system.