Korean Studies (2)

Open the app — Korean Studies Toolkit (Chrome Web Store) What do you do when an unfamiliar word appears in a classical text? Open a new tab, type the dictionary address, retype the word, then find your way back. A date shows up, so you open another tab. Ten tabs later you have lost the line you were reading. Korean Studies Toolkit removes that round trip. It is a Chrome extension that docks three tools to the right of your browser: the Korean Studies Web Dictionary, the East Asian Chronology and the Unicode Hanja IME. Your page stays where it is; you look things up beside it. ...

Open the app — Korean Studies Web Dictionary When an unfamiliar word turns up in an old text, one dictionary is rarely enough. It is not in the hanja dictionary, so you open an idu glossary; not there either, so you try the medical terminology list, and end up in an encyclopedia. Half a dozen tabs later, you have lost the sentence you were reading. This dictionary searches more than twenty sources at once. One query, and every dictionary carrying that word appears on a single screen. There are 1.42 million headwords. ...