ASFA/2006/ 38
Korea (KORDI) Report

ASFA ADVISORY BOARD MEETING
VLIZ, Oostende, Belgium, 4-8 September 2006

1. Institute 

KORDI (Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute)
Ansan P.O. Box 29
Seoul 425-600
Korea, Republic of 

Telephone: +82 31 4006465
Fax: +82 31 4090325
URL: http://www.kordi.re.kr

2. Board Member and Input Staff Names

Board Member:
Dr. Jong-Yup HAN
Head, Research Information Team
KORDI (Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute)
Ansan P.O. Box 29
Seoul 425-600
Korea, Republic

Telephone: +82 31 4006465
Fax: +82 31 4090325
URL: http://library.kordi.re.kr
E-mail: jyhan@kordi.rekr

Input staffs :
Ms. Hee-Kyung KIM
Telephone: +82 31 4006463
E-mail: hkkim@kordi.rekr
Ms. Hyo-Jung YOO
Telephone: +82 31 4006466
E-mail: bspark@kordi.rekr

3. Input statistics

The records prepared in 2005-2006 (until June 2006) are 150 entries. The Input  Statistics of  the recent years are as follows in Table 1:

Table 1. KORDI’s ASFA Input Statistics.

Year	2000	2001	2002	2003	2006	Total	
Input	50	450	300	100	150	1,050	

4. Distribution list for complimentary ASFA entitlements

KORDI use 1 CSA Internet database account so far.
However we would like to get some more Entitlements (2 more CSA Internet database account) for the KORDI branch.

5. Usefulness of ASFA products to your users

ASFA is the main database used popularly in Republic of Korea by Korean oceanographic scientists.
We provide ASFA user seminar to promote coefficient of utilization on the IDS databases biannually in my Institute.

6. Changes to monitoring list information 

At present there are 14 titles in the KORDI Serials Monitoring List as follows:

1.	Annual Report of Oceanographic Observations
2.	Bulletin of National Fisheries Research and Development  Institute (Korea)
3.	Bulletin of National Fisheries University of Pusan 
4.	Bulletin of the Marine Research  Institute, Cheju National University 
5.	Contributions of National Korea Inter-University Institute of Ocean Science, Pukyong National University 
6.	Contributions of National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (Korea)
7.	Journal of Fisheries Science and Technology 
8.	Journal of the Oceanological Society of Korea
9.	Journal of the Korean Fisheries Society
10.	Korean Journal of Limnology
11.	Ocean and Polar Research (formerly Ocean Research)
12.	Statistical Yearbook of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Seoul)
13.	Journal of Aquaculture
14.         Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers

And we are going to add 1 more journals being published in Korea. as follow:

15.	Ocean Science Journal (Publishing by KORDI & Korean Soc. Oceanography)

7. Problems

Some geographic descriptor’s field  of the specific sea area should be revised. 
For example, geographic descriptor’s field for island belonging to the eastern Korean territorial water should be designated as the East Sea instead of Japan Sea(and may be Japan Sea with parenthesis), because it is not officially accepted terminology. Further discussion on this matter can be arranged later time.