This book is divided into the various eastern nationalities, which are then detailed according to their chronology.  This is a very useful book in two ways:  it has a good amount of information on Korean architecture, and it facilitates looking at Korean architecture within the context of other Far Eastern architectural styles.

This book is difficult to use, because it is written entirely in Korean.  It is really too bad because it has many detailed cross-sections of buildings.  By associating photographs from two different sources, it might be possible to use the cross-sections.

This book deals with the many religions that have been adopted by the Koreans and includes discussion of the religious ideas enshrined in their architecture.  Unfortunately, there are no illustrations to go with the content, but it has interesting discussions.  

This book mostly concerns the history of Korea up until the latter days of the Choson Period in the early part of the twentieth century.  It does have a brief section on architecture with a discussion of building methods and interior design, however there still isn’t much to work with.

This book covers the history of Korea.  It doesn’t have an area specifically for architecture, although many buildings are mentioned in the index.  Hulbert covers architecture more fully in The Passing of Korea, but this does lay the historical groundwork for that text.

This book has a very pro-western slant, which flavors some of the text.  The book mostly concerns “recent” history of Korea, and places the culture into its place as it pertains to recent developments.  Once again, there isn’t a long section on architecture, but it does have some interesting descriptions of house and city design and organization, and stories about how the Koreans of the time culturally responded to architectural features such as solid walls or open streets.  

This book is extremely useful:  in addition to briefly discussing Korean architecture, it also has single or multi-page discussions of specific buildings with many full-page pictures.  This book divides Korean architecture into two general categories (wood and stone buildings) with information regarding different buildings within those categories.

This book describes in detail the development of art and architecture of Korea.  Once again, it breaks the timeline into specific periods to aid in the retrieval of information.  My only complaint (a minor one) is with the placement of the color-plates at the end of the chapters.  Illustrations dispersed throughout the text impart a more thorough understanding.

This is basically a picture book.  The words do little more than illuminate what is in the photograph section, giving no real sense of organization or context to the photographs.  This resource is dominated by photographs of Japan, making it’s usefulness as a Korean resource.