The Archives of Korea Democracy Foundation was established in 2001 both to commemorate all the democratization movements that have existed since the formation of the Republic in Korea in 1948 and to promotetheir values. The Foundation is now preparing to open the Korea Democracy Memorial by 2007. The Memorial is expected to incorporate “all the memories as yet unrecorded" since the time of the Rhee Syng-man administration. The archive institution discussed in this paper is a subdivision of the Foundation. Its aims are 1) to collect and securely preserve the historical materials that relate to the democratization movement, 2) to systematize what have been the hitherto scattered historical sources of that movement as a reconstructed collective memory, and 3) to develop effective ways to use such materials.

The Hanshin Awaji earthquake disaster of 1995 was a momentous event in Japanese archival science. In addition to rescuing archival materials which might otherwise have been lost in the confusion, people began to concern themselves with preserving a record of the disaster itself. This paper discusses the latter, the preservation of "earthquake disaster records." Following the event, various organizations including volunteer groups, libraries and local government immediately started to compile such records. Their activities raised fundamental issues for archival science: what should constitute such records, and why people collect and preserve them. A category of archival material termed “earthquake disaster records" emerged from society's encounter with disaster and from the interaction of the range of specialists concerned with preservation.

The purpose of my article is to introduce the various arguments concerned with the collection of regional records by the National Archives and Records Service, the Academy of Korean Studies and the National Institute of Korean History. My intention is to extend understanding of the current trends in record and archive management in Korea.

The purpose of the research described here was to design an archive in which the real archive and the digital archive could perform complementary roles. The documents constituting the archive are the architectural records for Seitaro Tsuboi's house, which was constructed in the Taisho era. Those records were also very important in our research for providing historical sources for the Tsuboi family. Thus, we structured an archive in which real and digital records coexist incorporating both the record of construction and the record of the subsequent history of the house. The paper describes the details of this research.