Open the app — East Asian Chronology Have you ever stopped at a date written as Chongzhen, the byeongja year while reading an old text? It gives you an era name and a cycle year, and what that is in Western years does not come to mind. By the time you have opened a chronology table, found the era, counted from the accession year and matched the cycle, your reading has lost its thread. ...
Open the app — Joseon Palace Maps What do you do when a hall name like Huijeongdang or Bihyeonhap turns up in the Annals or a royal protocol? You recognize the name, but where in the palace it stood refuses to come into focus. Unrolling the Donggwoldo and scanning it by eye is no small task — one small cell among thousands of tiny inscriptions. This site works the other way round. Type the name and it is marked on the painting. So far 2,503 locations have been placed. ...
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. ...
Open the app — Unicode Hanja IME Have you ever been transcribing an old text and come to a full stop at a character you cannot read? Korean input converts hanja from its reading, so without the reading you cannot even open the conversion list. And once you have dug the reading out of a dictionary, the character is often missing from the list anyway. The built-in converter on Windows mostly covers the basic block. Characters from the extension blocks — common in classical texts — never show up. ...
Open the app — Audio Tag Editor Have you ever opened an old mp3 folder and found the titles showing as gibberish like º½³¯Àº °£´Ù? The older the collection, the more of it there is. Installing a tag editor feels like a chore, and fixing one track at a time never ends. This tool opens a folder in the browser and fixes the tags in place, saving over the originals. It revives broken Korean on its own, moves your folder names into album and artist fields, and fills in cover art and lyrics. It always writes UTF-8, so from now on the files stay readable wherever you open them. Nothing is uploaded. It all finishes inside the browser. ...
Open the app — Broken Hangul Fixer Have you ever opened a file made on a Mac in Windows and found 강물 unravelled into ㄱㅏㅇㅁㅜㄹ? Or received an annotated classical text where the letters sit crooked, like 쥬역언ᄒᆞㅣ? The first is split jamo, the second is Old Hangul assembled wrongly. In both cases nothing is lost — the assembly has simply come apart — so with the right rules it can be put back. This tool does that assembling for you. ...
Open the app — Classical Edition Comparison Anyone who has collated editions knows the routine. Three different editions of the same book, spread open, hunting for the same leaf in each and matching character by character. Open three PDF viewer windows and every time you turn one you have to find and turn the others. Spot a variant character and there’s nowhere to mark it, so you end up noting it in a separate memo. ...
Open the app — Document Batch Generator You need 200 certificates. The form is identical and only the name and number change. Type a name in a word processor, print. Change the name, print. Two hundred times. Mail merge, you say — but not if the form arrived as a PDF or an image. Which is exactly how certificate templates come back from a design studio. This tool lays your PDF or image template down as it is and puts text on top. Write {n} and the number climbs; paste in a table and several values such as name and affiliation change together. The result is one PDF. All 200 pages in a single file, ready to hand to the printer. ...
Open the app — Extract Text from Audio Files You need to turn a meeting recording into text, and there’s no good way to do it. Online services ask you to upload the whole recording. Which means first deciding whether the contents may leave the building at all. With an interview or a counselling session it’s worse. This tool runs the Whisper model right inside your browser. Download the model once and every calculation after that happens on your own machine. The audio never leaves the page. No server upload, no API key, no sign-up. ...