In a paper recently published in Manuscripta Orientalia by Park Songgu, Ch’oe Tŏksu, Chŏng Ubong and Hŏ Sunch’ŏl on Korean manuscripts, block-prints, and old-print books in the collection of Russia, I drew the authors' attention to the absence of a list of characters in it. In my view, such a list is indispensable in such an article devoted to manuscripts and books. Following is a list of characters to complement the paper of our Korean colleagues. We publish it here, together with a transliteration, in the hope that it will ease the task of scholars in the discipline of Korean studies whose interests lead them to the valuable materials found in Russian collections, and in particular in the collection of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies and of St. Petersburg State University...
The 15th Conference “Travels to the East - 2023” will be held at the IOM RAS on March 27, 2024. The event is organized by the Department of Central Asian and South Asian Studies and the Department of Far Eastern Studies.
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