Lonely Planet: Korea recommended reads
- Berlitz: Korean for Travelers
- In Introductory Course in Korean by Fred Lukoff
- Korea's Golden Age by Edward B. Adams
- Korean Guide: A Glimpse of Korea's Cultural Legacy by Edward B. Adams
- Lonely Planet: Korean Phrasebook
guides
- Korean Old and New: A History from the Korea Institute at Harvard University
- Korea: Tradition and Transformation by Andrew C. Nahm
- The Comfort Women
- True Stories of the Korean Comfort Women by Keith Howard
- The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History by Don Oberdorfer
- Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History by Bruce Cummings
- The Abacus and the Sword: the Japanese Penetration of Korea by Peter Duus
- The Confucian Transformation of Korea by Martina Deuchler
- Confucian Gentlemen and Barbarian Envoys by Martina Deuchler
- Korea's Golden Age by Edward B. Adams (recommended read before visiting Gyeongju, Korea's living museum
history/politics
- To Dream of Pigs by Clive Leatherdale
- Korea and her Neighbors by Isabella Lucy Bird Bishop
travel
- Troubled Tiger: Business Men, bureaucrats, and Generals in South Korea by Mark Clifford
- The Chaebol by Steers, Shin, and Ungson
- Korean Dynasty: Hyundai and Chung Ju Yung by Donald Kirk
