Chronology of Mutual Visit Programs between the National Diet Library and the National Library of Korea

Titles and posts are those at the time.

No. (Year)	Period	Exchange activities	Reports
25 (2025) in Japan	July 7 to July 12	Keynote Speeches: "Current status and challenges of the NLK" (keynote speech by NLK) "Current status and challenges of the NDL, 2024-2025" (keynote speech by NDL) Theme 1: Application of Advanced Technologies to Library Operations and Services "Development of a Dataset of National Literature Using AI-Powered Optical Character Recognition (AI-OCR)" (report by NLK) "From Digital Images to Text: The National Diet Library's Digital Conversion Initiative" (report by NDL) Theme 2: Supporting User Information Retrieval in the Age of Digital Transformation Collaborative Digital Reference Services: Current Practices and Future Development - 'Ask a Librarian' (report by NLK) Enhancing User Information Retrieval in the DX Era: The Case of 'Research Navi' (report by NDL)	Monthly Bulletin No. 775 (Nov. 2025) (PDF: 5.35 MB) NDL Newsletter No. 265 (Oct. 2025)
24 (2024) in Korea	July 8 to July 13	Keynote Speeches: "Recent achievements and challenges at the NLK" (keynote speech by NLK) "Recent achievements and challenges at the NDL, 2023–2024" (keynote speech by NDL) Theme: Digital Culture Heritage in Our Countries: Korean Memory and Japan Search "Korean Memory as the focus of collaboration and cooperation in the development of Korean digital cultural heritage" (report by NLK) "Collaboration and cooperation at Japan Search" (report by NDL) Exchange between Children's Libraries：Current issues in children's and young adult services: Services that utilize advanced technologies "Services at the National Library for Children and Young Adults (NLCY) using advanced technology" (report by NLK) "Development and Use of Digital Content at the ILCL" (report by NDL)	Monthly Bulletin No. 763 (Nov. 2024) (PDF: 7.64 MB) NDL Newsletter No. 259 (Oct. 2024)
23 (2023) in Japan	July 24 to July 29	Keynote Speeches: "Current status and challenges of the NLK" (keynote speech by NLK) "Current status and challenges of the NDL, 2022-2023" (keynote speech by NDL) Theme 1: Introduction of next-generation bibliographic languages "Transforming to next-generation bibliographic languages: National Bibliography 2030" (report by NLK) "Plan for Creating and Providing the National Diet Library's Bibliographic Data 2021-2025 ―from the viewpoint of the basis for Linked Data" (report by NDL) Theme 2: Long-term preservation of digital materials Long-term preservation of digital materials (report by NLK) Long-term preservation of digital materials in the NDL (report by NDL)	Monthly Bulletin No. 751 (Nov. 2023) (PDF: 5.22 MB) NDL Newsletter No. 253 (Oct. 2023)
(2022) Online　Exchange Program	Sep. 21	Keynote speeches: "Current and future challenges at the NDL 2021–2022" (keynote speech by NDL) "Current and future challenges at the NLK" (keynote speech by NLK) Theme: Curation and information dissemination by national libraries "Efforts by the NLK for activation of remote services with online materials: Focusing on copyright research and the discovery of orphan works" (report by NLK) "Digital shift in exhibiting materials: Curation by librarians" (report by NDL)	Monthly Bulletin No. 740 (Dec. 2022) (PDF: 5.65 MB) NDL Newsletter No. 247 (Oct. 2022)
(2021) Online Exchange Program	Oct. 28	Keynote speeches: "National Diet Library, Vision 2021–2025: The Digital Shift at the National Diet Library" (keynote speech by NDL) "Management strategies of the National Library of Korea in the post-COVID-19 situation" (keynote speech by NLK) Theme: Recent Developments on Digital Shift "Preparation for digital transformation: Strategies and implementation plan" (report by NLK) "Recent developments on digital shift at the National Diet Library" (report by NDL)	Monthly Bulletin No. 729 (Jan. 2022) (PDF: 7.37 MB) NDL Newsletter No. 243 (Feb. 2022)
22 (2019) in Korea	Oct. 28 to Nov. 2	Keynote speeches: "Current and future challenges at the NLK" (keynote speech by NLK) "Current and future challenges at the NDL" (keynote speech by NDL) Theme: New efforts in digital information "Current situation of library Big Data analysis and utilization system in Korea" (report by NLK) "The NDL's new efforts in digital information" (report by NDL) Theme: Reconstitution of library spaces and improvement of on-site library services "Reconstitution of library spaces and improvement of on-site library services at the NLK" (report by NLK) "Reconstitution of library spaces and improvement of user services" (report by NDL)	NDL Newsletter No. 228 (Feb. 2020)
21 (2018) in Japan	Oct. 15 to Oct. 20	Keynote speeches: "Current status and challenges of the NLK" (keynote speech by NLK) "Current status and challenges of the NDL" (keynote speech by NDL) Theme: Services of the national library for people with disabilities "Current status and challenges of national library services for the disabled: Universal access to knowledge and information" (report by NLK) "NDL services for people with disabilities" (report by NDL) Exchange between Children's Libraries: Developing competency of librarians in charge of service at the national library for children and young adults "Enhancing skills of librarians in charge of services for children and young adults: Focusing on workshop management" (report by NLK) "Training programs of the International Library of Children's Literature for librarians in charge of services for children and young adults" (report by NDL)	NDL Newsletter No. 221 (Dec. 2018)
20 (2017) in Korea	Sep. 18 to Sep. 23	Keynote speeches: "Current and future challenges at the NLK" (keynote speech by NLK) (PDF: 325 KB) "Current and future challenges at the NDL" (keynote speech by NDL) (PDF: 340 KB) Theme 1: Strategic vision for a national library "A new strategic plan for the NLK" (report by NLK) (PDF: 340 KB) "The NDL's new midterm vision: Universal Access 2020" (report by NDL) (PDF: 287 KB) Theme 2: Effective training programs for library employees "Human resource development at the NLK" (report by NLK) (PDF: 1,242 KB) "Training programs for NDL employees" (report by NDL) (PDF: 308 KB) Exchange between Children's Libraries: Current and future challenges in library services for children and young adults: promoting reading in cooperation with related organizations "Current and future challenges in library services for children and young adults: joint projects for promoting reading" (report by NLK) (PDF: 460 KB) "Revamped services and affiliated programs for children and young adults at the ILCL" (report by NDL) (PDF: 308 KB)	NDL Newsletter No. 215 (Dec. 2017)
19 (2016) in Japan	Oct. 3 to Oct. 8	Keynote speeches: "Change and innovation of the National Central Library in a society of knowledge and information" (keynote speech by NLK) (PDF: 420 KB) "Current status and challenges of the NDL" (keynote speech by NDL) (PDF: 330 KB) Theme: Current status and challenges in acquiring online periodicals "Installation and promotion of the legal deposit system for online materials" (report by NLK) (PDF: 605 KB) "Current status and challenges in acquiring online serials" (report by NLK) (PDF: 505 KB) "Current status and challenges in acquiring online periodicals in the NDL" (report by NDL) (PDF: 290 KB)	Monthly Bulletin No. 668 (Dec. 2016) (PDF: 6.78 MB) NDL Newsletter No. 209 (Dec. 2016)
18 (2015) in Korea	Sep. 7 to Sep. 13	Keynote speeches: "Current status and future challenges of NLK" (keynote speech by NLK) (PDF: 296 KB) "Current status and future challenges of NDL" (keynote speech by NDL) (PDF: 333 KB) Theme 1: Remote services "Current status of digitization and remote services at the NLK" (report by NLK) (PDF: 375 KB) "Remote services using the NDL's digitized contents" (report by NDL) (PDF: 269 KB) Theme 2: Latest trends of making and providing bibliographic data "Latest trends of making and providing bibliographic data: focusing on production of online materials" (report by NLK) (PDF: 653 KB) "Current status and future of making and providing bibliographic data at the NDL: efforts based on 'New Development 2013'" (report by NDL) (PDF: 316 KB)	Monthly Bulletin No. 656 (Dec. 2015) (PDF: 4.34 MB) NDL Newsletter No. 203 (Dec. 2015)
17 (2014) in Japan	July 8 to July 15	Keynote speeches: "Current status and future challenges of NLK" (keynote speech by NLK) (PDF: 295 KB) "Current status challenges of NDL in 2014" (keynote speech by NDL) (PDF: 333 KB) Theme 1: Strategic Plan as a National Library "Medium and Long Term (2014~2018) Development Plan for the NLK" (report by NLK) (PDF: 374 KB) "'Mission and Objectives 2012-2016' and 'Strategic Goals'" (report by NDL) (PDF: 296 KB) Theme 2: Current Status and Challenges of Information Service for the Executive Agencies of the Government "NLK's provision of policy information for cooperative use of policy information resources by government and institutions" (report by NLK) (PDF: 590 KB) "Branch Libraries System and Recent Services for the Government and Judicial Agency" (report by NDL) (PDF: 316 KB) Exchange between Children's Libraries: Services for visitors "Overview of the exhibitions in the National Library for Children and Young Adults, Korea" (report by NLK) (PDF: 357 KB) "Exhibitions of the International Library of Children's Literature" (report by NDL) (PDF: 332 KB)	Monthly Bulletin No. 642 (Sep. 2014) (PDF: 6.12 MB) NDL Newsletter No. 195 (Aug. 2014)
16 (2013) in Korea	May 27 to June 3	Keynote speeches: "Current status and future challenges of NLK" (keynote speech by NLK) (PDF: 312 KB) "Current status and future challenges of NDL" (keynote speech by NDL) (PDF: 341 KB) Theme 1: Acquisition, cataloging, and preservation of online materials "Acquisition and preservation of online materials in the NLK" (report by NLK) (PDF: 584 KB) "Acquisition of online materials in the NDL" (report by NDL) (PDF: 285 KB) Theme 2: Acquisition, cataloging and user service for non-book materials "Acquisition, organization, and user service of non-book materials in the NLK" (report by NLK) (PDF: 641 KB) "Current approaches to acquisition of audiovisual materials" (report by NDL) (PDF: 291 KB) Exchange between Children's Libraries: Services for visitors "Current status and future challenges of visitor services in the NLCY" (report by NLK) (PDF: 765 KB) "Current status and future challenges of the on-site services for children in the ILCL" (report by NDL) (PDF: 285 KB)	Monthly Bulletin No. 628/629 (Jul./Aug. 2013) (PDF: 3.74 MB) NDL Newsletter No. 190 (Aug. 2013)
15 (2012) in Japan	Sep. 4 to Sep. 11	Keynote speeches: Current Status and Challenges of Two Libraries "Current Status and Future Challenges of NLK" (keynote speech by NLK) (PDF: 343 KB) "Current Status and Challenges of NDL in 2012" (keynote speech by NDL) (PDF: 346 KB) Theme 1: National Library's engagement in bibliography and future development "Current Status and Future Challenges of the Authority Control of Author Names in the NLK" (report by NLK) (PDF: 355 KB) "Current Status and Future Development of Creating and Providing Bibliographic data by the NDL" (report by NDL) (PDF: 407 KB) Theme 2: Current Status and Measures to Enhance the Interlibrary Cooperation "Current Status and Challenges of the Collaborative Digital Reference Service (CDRS) of NLK" (report by NLK) (PDF: 436 KB) "About the Supporting Libraries Activities by NDL" (report by NDL) (PDF: 288 KB)	Monthly Bulletin No. 619 (Oct. 2012) (PDF: 4.28 MB) NDL Newsletter No. 185 (Oct. 2012)
14 (2011) in Korea	Oct. 24 to Oct. 31	Keynote speeches: "The roles and functions of the National Library" (keynote speech by NLK) (PDF: 357 KB) "The past year of the National Diet Library" (keynote speech by NDL) (PDF: 209 KB) Theme 1: Policy information support service and cooperation with government libraries "Policy information services and its portal site of the National Library of Korea" (report by NLK) (PDF: 476 KB) "Branch Library System of the National Diet Library: providing services for libraries in the executive and judicial agencies" (report by NDL) (PDF: 301 KB) Theme 2: Acquisition, preservation and user service of old and rare materials "Acquisition, preservation and user service of old and rare materials" (report by NLK) (PDF: 502 KB) "Old and rare materials of the National Diet Library" (report by NDL) (PDF: 288 KB)	Monthly Bulletin No. 609 (Dec. 2011) (PDF: 3.74 MB) NDL Newsletter No. 180 (Dec. 2011)
13 (2010) in Japan	Nov. 2 to Nov. 9	Keynote speeches: "Current Status and Challenges of NLK" (keynote speech by NLK) (PDF: 311 KB) "Current status and Challenges of NDL" (keynote speech by NDL) (PDF: 316 KB) Theme 1 "Library Service for the people with disability using digital resources at the National Library of Korea" (report by NLK) (PDF: 446 KB) "Details of amendment of the Copyright Act to provide information for people with disabilities and current status in libraries in Japan" (report by NDL) (PDF: 320 KB) Theme 2 "Current status and challenges in automatic translation between Korean and Japanese -ensuring interoperability of MDR-based metadata-" (report by NDL) (PDF: 641 KB) "Current status and challenges of NDL Search and automatic translation between Japanese and Korean" (report by NDL) (PDF: 475 KB) Exchange between Children's Libraries "National Library for Children & Young Adults' progress of the past 1 year" "Active service for children through enlivenment of Websites" (report by NLK) (PDF: 659 KB) "Progress of the past 1 year" "Providing information for children" (report by NDL) (PDF: 289 KB)	Monthly Bulletin No. 597 (Dec. 2010) (PDF: 3.97 MB) NDL Newsletter No. 176 (Feb. 2011)
12 (2009) in Korea	Nov. 2 to Nov. 9	Main theme: Contents and Services of Digital LibrariesKeynote speeches: "Digital Age and the National Library of Korea in Transformation" (keynote speech by NLK) (PDF: 241 KB) "Digital Library Projects of the National Diet Library and Development of New Services" (keynote speech by NDL) (PDF: 209 KB) Presentation on main theme "Expanding Digital Contents and Managing a Portal" (report by NLK) (PDF: 476 KB) "Digital Library Information Services of the National Library of Korea" (report by NLK) (PDF: 220 KB) "Digitization of the National Diet Library" (report by NDL) (PDF: 153 KB) "User Services in Digital Age" (report by NDL) (PDF: 279 KB) Exchange between Children's Libraries "Main Operations of the National Library for Children and Young Adults" (report by NLK) (PDF: 300 KB) "Overviews on the International Library of Children's Literature" (report by NDL) (PDF: 198 KB)	Monthly Bulletin No. 588 (Mar. 2010) (PDF: 5.24 MB) NDL Newsletter No. 171 (Feb. 2010)
11 (2007) in Japan	June 13 to June 20	Overviews of the NDL and NLK (keynote speeches) "Changes in the National Library of Korea" (keynote speech by NLK) (PDF: 60 KB) "Current status of the national Diet Library, 2007: review of issues toward new development" (keynote speech by NDL) (PDF: 41 KB) Main theme: Acquisition, provision and preservation of digital information "Acquisition of digital information in the National Library of Korea" (report by NLK) (PDF: 108 KB) "Digital information service and preservation in the National Library of Korea" (report by NDL) (PDF: 125 KB) "NDL Digital Archive Portal" (report by NDL) (PDF: 43 KB) "NDL Digital Archiving System" (report by NDL) (PDF: 43 KB)	Monthly Bulletin No. 559 (Oct. 2007) (PDF: 3.59 MB) NDL Newsletter No. 156 (Aug. 2007)
10 (2006) in Korea	Sep. 19 to Sep. 26	Overviews of the NDL and NLK (keynote speeches) "Establishment of the National Library's Role for Improving Competitiveness of Libraries" (keynote speech by NLK) (PDF: 162 KB) "National Diet Library's Activities over the Past Year" (keynote speech by NDL) (PDF: 50 KB) Main theme: Reference Services in the Digital Information Age: Focusing on Construction of a Cooperative Digital Reference Network "From Digital Reference Service to Cooperative Digital Reference Service" (report by NLK) (PDF: 125 KB) "Reference Information on the NDL Website" (report by NDL) (PDF: 42 KB) "Cooperative Reference Database Project" (report by NDL) (PDF: 36 KB)	Monthly Bulletin No. 550 (Jan. 2007) (PDF: 1.9 MB) NDL Newsletter No. 152 (Dec. 2006)
9 (2005) in Japan	May 31 to June 7	Overviews of the NDL and NLK (keynote speeches) "Changes and renovations in the National Library of Korea; the 60th anniversary of the NLK, toward a new breakthrough" (keynote speech by NLK) (PDF: 34 KB) "The National Diet Library in the new era" (keynote speech by NDL) (PDF: 34 KB) Main theme: Children's services "Preparations for the establishment of the National Children's Library" (report by NLK) (PDF: 153 KB) "Services in the International Library of Children's Literature: significance of direct services for children" (report by NDL) (PDF: 152 KB) "To develop 'Basic Plan for the Third Term of the ILCL'" (report by NDL) (PDF: 49 KB)	Monthly Bulletin No. 534 (Sep. 2005) (PDF: 1.63 MB) NDL Newsletter No. 144 (Aug. 2005)
8 (2004) in Korea	Oct. 11 to Oct. 18	Main-theme: Future of National Libraries Present and Future of the National Diet Library" (keynote speech by NDL) (PDF: 52 KB) Future Plan of the National Library of Korea in the Age of Knowledge Information Society" (keynote speech by NLK) (PDF: 85 KB) Management of the National Diet Library with the Future View -- "NDL Vision 2004" and Introduction of an Evaluation System" (report by NDL) (PDF: 128 KB) Sub-theme: Acquisition and Preservation of Digital Information Resources Future Plan on Development of the Digital Archives at the National Diet Library (report by NDL) (PDF: 44 KB) Acquisition and Preservation Management of Online Digital Resources (report by NLK) (PDF: 103 KB)	Monthly Bulletin No. 526 (Jan. 2005) (PDF: 3.36 MB) NDL Newsletter No. 140 (Dec. 2004)
7 (2003) in Japan	June 17 to June 24	Keynote speech: Overview of the present status of the NDL and NLK NDL Heads into New Era (Report by NDL) (PDF: 16 KB) Current Status and Future Plan of NLK (Report by NLK) (PDF: 16 KB) Presentation on main theme: Digital library construction Objectives of NDL's electronic library services (Report by NDL) (PDF: 23 KB) Constructing databases of library holdings and sharing them with other institutions (Report by NLK) (PDF: 73 KB)	Monthly Bulletin No. 510 (Sep. 2003) NDL Newsletter No. 133 (Oct. 2003)
6 (2002) in Korea	Sep. 9 to Sep. 16	Keynote speech: NDL in 2002: before the opening of the Kansai-kan (Report by NDL) (PDF: 21 KB) Establishing the National Digital Library for a knowledge-based society (Report by NLK) (PDF: 14 KB) Presentation on main theme: Key projects and new reader services Report by NDL-1 (PDF: 27 KB) Report by NDL-2 (PDF: 15 KB) Report by NLK-1 (PDF: 223 KB) Report by NLK-2 (PDF: 25 KB)	Monthly Bulletin No. 501 (Dec. 2002) NDL Newsletter No. 129 (Mar. 2003)
5 (2001) in Japan	May 21 to May 28	Keynote speech: NDL's activities - an update (Report by NDL) NLK in the 21st century (Report by NLK) Training and retraining of librarians (Section meeting)	Monthly Bulletin No. 486 (Sep. 2001) NDL Newsletter No. 120 (July 2001)
4 (2000) in Korea	Sep. 18 to Sep. 25	Keynote speech: The new user service plan of NDL (Report by NDL) Overview and future strategy of the NLK (Report by NLK) Acquisition and dissemination of overseas materials (Section meeting)	Monthly Bulletin No. 477 (Dec. 2000) NDL Newsletter No. 118 (Mar. 2001)
3 (1999) in Japan	May 24 to May 31	Keynote speech: NDL heading for the 21st century: project for the three-libraries system (Report by NDL) The role of the national library in the intellectual information society (Report by NLK) Libraries and copyright (Section meeting)	Monthly Bulletin No. 461 (Aug. 1999) NDL Newsletter No. 110 (Aug. 1999)
2 (1998) in Korea	Sep. 21 to Sep. 23	Keynote speech: 50th anniversary of NDL and its future plan (Report by NDL) <br> Current status and future tasks of the NLK (Report by NLK) Library Cooperation (Section meeting) Preservation and conservation (Section meeting) Digital Library (Section meeting) * Participation in the All Korea Library Conference held at Kyongju	Monthly Bulletin No. 454 (Jan. 1999)
1 (1997) in Japan	Nov. 9 to Nov. 16	Keynote speech: Future plan of NDL (Report by NDL) <br> Current status and future prospects of NLK (Report by NLK) Legal deposit system (Section meeting) MARC (Sectionmeeting) User services (Section meeting)	Monthly Bulletin No. 443 (Feb. 1998) NDL Newsletter No. 106 (Mar. 1998)