A Study on the Organicity of the Korean-English Encyclopedia of Korean Culture for overseas Learners

This study establishes organicity as the prerequisite for the Korean-English Encyclopedia of Korean Culture for overseas learners, and by analyzing the actual compilation processes, examines the content composition methods for building organicity. At the internal headword level, the encyclopedia first prepared comprehensive and core knowledge, and second, described the historical and contemporary aspects of cultural items with balanced representation. At the external headword level, the study first described the relationships and extensibility between headwords, and second, structured a hierarchy of knowledge by arranging headwords according to difficulty levels. Through these methods, the Korean-English Encyclopedia of Korean Culture, characterized by its organic structure, enables learners to perceive the wholeness and unity of cultural knowledge.