Nurimedia
South Korean library resource company
Nurimedia (Korean: 누리미디어) is a South Korean company headquartered in Seoul, which offers academic library resources to customers in college, university, private enterprise and government markets. Its products include fee-based online research services DBpia, with over 3,400 Korean scholarly journals and a partnership with the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) of science and technology academic papers; KRpia, with primary resources on Korean studies with 127 full-text databases; BookRail e-book service and BauemNet e-learning courses.
History
The company was founded in 1997, incorporated as a limited company Nurimedia Co., Ltd. and a registered software company in 1998, and enrolled as a venture Company in 1999.
In the beginning years, they announced their ambition of creating a definitive Korean studies database. Some of their first published Korean classical literary works, in digital form, included Goryeosa, The History of Balhae, Tripitaka Koreana, Samguk sagi and Samguk yusa. Research scholars, also noted the company as having introduced, in 1998–1999, a few historical works from North Korea, through China, which they published on CD-ROM.
At the end of the twentieth century, a need had developed in the area of Korean studies, as academic researchers showed an increased interest in information retrieval, the internet and related technology. The Korean government's policy was "to make the nation the best place in the world for IT services," and the company was one of seven mainstream companies, in South Korea, learning to manage vast amounts of digitalized information related to Korean studies, and just one of two digitalizing full-text articles of South Korean academic journals. It was a time when the quality and quantity of their digital content experienced rapid growth; initially providing full text in PDF, and by 2006, their databases were offering multimedia functions such as sound, graphics and video.
In 1997, Bookrail was developed, based on local technology, and became the search program for DBpia.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20205097. The first chronological checks are 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2006.
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This entry incorporates text from “Nurimedia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.