This article discusses the nature of Korean classical Chinese texts, or Sino-Korean texts and pays attention to the need for compiling various reference works in pre-modern Korean studies. And it suggests that the introduction of Digital Humanities to the field is necessary and discusses the conditions for successful Digital Humanities in the field. Due to the ambiguity and complexity of Sino-Korean texts, students of the field need various reference works to refer to for a clear understanding of the texts. It is recently and widely accepted as an urgent task to compile various reference works for Korean studies, ranging from linguistic and term dictionaries to encyclopedias. However, since the number of people who want to use paper dictionaries and reference books continues to reduce, reference work projects for Korean studies need to consider changing the direction. Adopting the Digital Humanities methods in the whole process of the projects can bring promptness, accuracy, and up-to-date-ness to the projects, and enable the field to extend the territory and maximize versatility. In doing so, the projects of reference work for Korean studies can continue to contribute to the development of Korean studies. It can also be used as a useful cultural content on the Internet. There are two issues to take into consideration regarding adopting Digital Humanities for reference work making for Korean studies. One is fostering editors and project managers of Digital Humanities projects for Korean studies; the other is to establish a standard for reference work making projects for effective communication, project planning & evaluation, and manpower training, etc.

이 논문은 스마트 폰, 컴퓨터, 혹은 태블릿PC와 같은 전자기기를 통해서 정보를 구글링(구글로 검색하기)하는 명확하게 현대적인 실천을 검토한다. 구글과 다른 검색엔진뿐만 아니라 온라인 데이터베이스, 사전, 컴퓨터 응용 프로그램과 같은 디지털 인터페이스를 통해 성전(sacred texts)에 접근하는 것이 가능해진 것은 10~15년 전에는 상상조자 할 수 없던 일이다. 이러한 디 지털 도구의 개발은 간접적으로 성전에 다가갈 수 있는 다수의 새로운 경로 를 만들어낸다. 이 논문은 전통적으로 일본의 쇼토쿠 태자 (574~622)가 저술한 것으로 보 는“삼경의소”(三 義疏, 세경전에대한논평)에대해검토한다.“ 삼경의소” 는 한문으로 쓰인 세 권의 불교 주석서를 통칭하는 제목이다. 이 논문은 이들 세 문헌에 대해 구글 검색에서 수집된 정보를 전통적 형식의 불교 주해와 비교하는 방법을 숙고한다. 이들 문헌에 대한 디지털과“비주석적”형식에 초 점을 맞춤으로써 나는 우리가 문헌에 관심을 기울이는 상이한 방법들이 어떻 게 문헌의 의미와 가치를 재생산하는가를 묻는 것뿐만 아니라 그들이 어떻게 연관되고, 서로에게 영향을 주는지를 질문하는 것처럼“삼경의소”에 대한 보 다 포괄적인 이해를 발전시킬 수 있기를 기대한다.

Linguistic divergence between standard varieties of Korean has been much studied, however, it has largely concerned itself with fine-grained analyses of single points of divergence, for example vocabulary, and the language policy behind such divergence. In contrast, this paper examines general trends of language in use in the ROK and DPRK in a specific genre of writing. We first briefly review prior research on the linguistic divergence which the standard varieties of these countries have undergone to contextualize our argument that a digital humanities approach could provide new insights for the field. This includes taking advantage of internet mediated data collection and quantitative analyses applied to relatively large amounts of data. In order to demonstrate the potential of this approach more fully, we present a small-scale stylometric analysis of ROK and DPRK journalistic texts. This pilot study suggests that national origin determines the stylistic characteristics of these texts to a greater extent than the topic and allows us to tentatively propose general characterizing features of ROK and DPRK journalistic style. We conclude with a prospectus for the incorporation of such methods into the study of ROK/DPRK linguistic divergence.