This page brings together free pdf books about Korea history. Our collection covers dozens of topics related to early kingdoms, cultural traditions, language evolution, modern conflicts, and international relations. Materials range from older public domain works for free download to best modern books.
The Topics section below helps readers find books and documents within the huge Internet Archive collection, which includes periodicals and other materials, from older historical works to recent publications. Each topic link generates an Internet Archive search focused on that subject. Clicking our topics usually works better than searching Internet Archive directly.
The sections below Topics provide links to foreign news translations, vintage audiobooks and modern Open Access books. See those sections for more information.
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Browse Korea History PDFs & Culture Books by Topic
The topic links below lead to Internet Archive search results related to pdf books on both North and South Korean history. Each link opens a books-and-documents search focused on a particular topic.
Search results generally include fully readable eBooks and textbooks. For some subjects, Internet Archive also contains other media, such as images, audio, or video files. These can be selected from the media options above the search results. Filters on the left side of Internet Archive pages can help narrow search results by years of publication, language, or specific subjects.
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- Japanese Occupation of Korea 1910-1945
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- Korean War 1950-1953
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Foreign News Translations
FBIS Daily Reports – East Asia – 1987-1996
1979-1994
FBIS
FBIS daily reports were English-language translations of publicly available foreign mass media reports that were transmitted by radio, television, and print. The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) was an open source office within the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The JPRS reports that may also be here are essentially FBIS reports.
Stream & Download Free Korean Audiobooks
These links to audiobook searches of Korean subjects lead to public domain recordings from the LibriVox.org collection at Internet Archive. The audiobooks, recorded by Librivox volunteers, were nearly all published before 1930. Recordings include works on history manuals, classic Korean fiction, traditional folklore tales, and early Western travelogues.
All Librivox audiobooks are in the public domain. They can be freely streamed online or downloaded for offline listening.
Open Access Books on Korea History Free Download
The Open Access materials below are modern books and other works made freely available online by universities, academic publishers, the Library of Congress, and other nonprofit organizations. Open Access collections usually include pdf textbooks, online courses, classroom lesson plans, and recent academic books that reflect current scholarship and research.
Some works may only be read online, but many can be downloaded as PDF or EPUB files.
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