Wikipedia:WikiProject Korea/Image guide

This page is a resource list and guide for working with images on WikiProject Korea!

Please upload your photos of Korea to Commons! Even seemingly mundane photos can end up being helpful years later.

Copyright

Make sure you consult Commons:Licensing and Commons:Copyright rules by territory/South Korea. Also relevant: rules for North Korea and for Japan.
- At present, the Korea Open Government License is permissible to use (but on thin ice).
Note that because South Korea doesn't have freedom of panorama, you generally cannot upload pictures of recent statues and buildings to Commons.
If there's a copyrighted photo you'd like to use, consider asking the copyright holder if they're willing to allow its use. See Commons:Volunteer Response Team for more on this process. Example of a success case.

Flickr (about) has images searchable by copyright license. If a good photo is under a restricted license, consider messaging the uploader and asking if they're willing to change the license. This works surprisingly often.
GongU Madang (about) is a search engine by the Korea Copyright Commission that has pictures searchable by copyright license.
The Archives of Korean History. Broad coverage of Korean history. Also has digitized many pictures from the US National Archives that the US hasn't digitized yet.
The US National Archives (about) has many pictures and video of Korea, mostly from around 1945 onwards.
The Seoul History Archives (about) has images, mostly about Seoul (but not exclusively).
Archive.org (about) has scans of old, copyright-free books with pictures of Korea by people such as Homer Hulbert (example). A number of early people in these categories have books on Archive.org: Category:Koreanists and Category:Christian missionaries in Korea.
The Korean Newspaper Archive (about) has scans of many 20th century newspapers in Korea.
The National Folk Museum of Korea (about) has scans of images that are old enough to be copyright-free.
The Encyclopedia of Korean Culture (about) often has pictures under the KOGL, but they're usually 20+ years old. Image metadata sometimes has info about when photos were possibly taken.
The National Diet Library of Japan (about) has many old books and photos about Korea from the Korean Empire and colonial periods.