Nurimedia

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;[2] KRpia, with primary resources on Korean studies with 127 full-text databases;[3] BookRail e-book service and BauemNet e-learning courses.

[6][7] 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.

[8] 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.

[9] 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.

[6] In April 2000, DBpia, their web-based academic database that enables searching and reading of information in original texts began operations, in cooperation with Korea's largest bookseller, Kyobo Book Centre.

[11][12][13] In the following years they added software, database and business certificates[5] and in 2015 were listed as a supported content provider (DBpia only) of a subscription monitoring service, along with other major companies;[14] and had mobile apps for their products.

[21] The Korean language database covers 600 publications in such fields as literature, economics, business, theology, law, administration, arts, engineering and natural science.

The practical e-learning lecture courses cover nine different fields required by college students, examinees, job candidates, and housewives; "Job Searching and Work Life", "Culture and Arts", "Economics, Management and Business", "Liberal Arts", "Multicultural Contents", "Self-Development and Self-Management", "Computer and Internet", "Health and Hobbies", and "Law School".

[22] In June 2013, the U.S. based non-profit global cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC) announced the addition of major global publishers to WorldCat, including three databases about Korean culture, history and education, DBpia, KRpia and Book Rail, representing a combined 80 million journal articles, 8,000 e-books and 1.3 million academic theses/papers.

[31] In 2013, ProQuest, a U.S. based, global information and data provider, indexed additional DBpia, KRpia, and BookRail collections, bringing the total to nearly 1,500,000 records of book and journal content.