TitleKorean National Bibliography (Daehanmingung gukgaseoji)
Web site addresshttps://librarian.nl.go.kr/LI/contents/L10507010000.do 
Start dateBegan 1963
Period covered1945- now
Current sizeOver 4 million records
Media coveredDigital, online, and printed books or serials, maps, printed music, audio, video grey literature including thesis and government publications, accessible resources
General selection criteria– Works in various media published in South Korea
– Works about Korea in various media published abroad
Selection criteria for digital resourcesIn the case of text and audio-visual resources, all resources collected by legal deposit shall be included.
Exclusions policies appliedIndividual articles in serials
Primary organisation responsible for national bibliographic controlNational Library of Korea
Web site address of national bibliographic agencyhttps://www.nl.go.kr (Korean)
https://www.nl.go.kr/EN/ (English)
Co-operative structures or  relationships supporting the production of the national bibliography In addition to NLK’s catalogue, collection lists for incorporation into the national bibliography are provided by the Korea Education and Research Information Service (KERIS) and the National Library for the Disabled.
Single integrated or multiple categorised bibliographiesSingle integrated dataset, but after 2021 multiple categorised bibliographies by media
Sources of bibliographic metadata used to produce national bibliographyAfter checking for duplication between metadata created in house and cooperative institutions, only unique metadata is included in the national bibliography.
Relationship to national legal deposit legislation or voluntary deposit arrangementsWe have legal deposits as national libraries, and most of these are included in the national bibliography unless otherwise excluded.
Relationship to national Cataloguing in Publication (CIP) programmeNational bibliography has operated without CIP involvement. (Korean CIP program was abolished in 2020).
Form of publication used for the national bibliography– Web catalogue: All national bibliographic data can be searched and downloaded individually
– File : Since 2021, national bibliography has been also provided as a dataset file, consisting of 41 self-selected metadata elements.
Online access optionsWeb access
Formats & media available for delivery of record sets from the national bibliography– Web catalogue: Korean MARC or MODS (Individual bibliographic data)
– File : EXCEL, CSV, JSON (Dataset by Year, by Type)
Frequency of service updatesAnnual
Target audiences for servicesresearchers, libraries, the public
Pricing policy for national bibliographic servicesFree
Availability of metadata for re-useAll national bibliographic metadata released into the public domain without restriction
Metadata formatsMARC, MODS(limited to digital resources for which NLK has created metadata)
Cataloguing codeKCR4 (Korean Cataloguing Rules)
Levels of description offeredFull
ClassificationKDC(Korean Decimal Classification), DDC
Subject heading scheme or thesaurusNLKSH(Nation Library of Korea Subject heading)
Name authority standards or Name authority fileKorean Authority File
Is NBA affiliated to IFLA Bibliography Section?The agency has representatives in ISBD review group.
Date information submitted2023/02/01
Information supplied byMISO LEE
Nation Library of Korea
Metadata & Sustainable Access Division
Contact email[email protected]