Law Directories

Law Directories (법률정보/法律情報 디렉토리) are classified for user's convenience. Generally speaking, you can find legal information by selecting a relevant law directory and searching key words.

For example, in order to find useful legal information on the "First Amendment" of the U.S. Constitution, you may choose the U.S. Statutes, Case Law or Law Journals from a certain legal database.

But, in Korea, the situation is quite different. Of course, you may visit a commercial database like LawnB, your are required to sign up and pay the necessary fee. If you're aware of some primary legal sources, however, you can search the exact information from each Website of law-related government institutions, departments and agencies.

Key words
legal information, primary source, secondary source, directory,

Public Law Directories
The following Website may function as a resourceful directory about relevant Korean legal information:


 * Legislation in process National Assembly
 * Korean laws, cases and academic journals, generally in Korean Ministry of Justice
 * Korean laws and decrees Ministry of Government Legislation
 * Consulting Korean Law OneClick Practical Law for Foreigners
 * Korean statutes in English Korean Legislation Research Institute
 * Korea's treaties and conventions in English Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
 * Supreme Court decisions Supreme Court
 * Constitutional Court rulings Constitutional Court
 * Academic journal articles (Some articles are not for free) KERIS-RISS

Private Law Directories

 * Kyung Hee Law Journal articles Kyung Hee Institute of Legal Studies
 * SNU Journal of Korean Law in English List and Digital files
 * Academic journals in Korea (Some articles are not for free) KERIS-RISS
 * Commercial DB on Korean law including legal forms available on a subscription basis LawnB

Foreign Law Directories on Korea

 * Academic legal materials about Korea in English or Japanese freely available (w/ keyword ex. "korea legal") at CiNii
 * Japanese Law on International Transactions
 * Legal materials about Korea in English or Chinese available on a subscription basis at ChinaLawInfo
 * Finding contents about Korea including privacy in AsianLII
 * Searching legal information worldwide in JurisPedia