Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty

Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty
Veritable Records of Jeongjo
Korean name
Hangul	조선왕조실록
Hanja	朝鮮王朝實錄
Revised Romanization	Joseon Wangjo Sillok
McCune–Reischauer	Chosŏn Wangjo Sillok
North Korean name
Hangul	조선봉건왕조실록[1]
Hanja	朝鮮封建王朝實錄
Revised Romanization	Joseon Bonggeon Wangjo Sillok
McCune–Reischauer	Chosŏn Bonggŏn Wangjo Sillok

The Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty^[a] are the Veritable Records of Joseon, the last royal house to rule Korea. Kept from 1392 to 1865, they comprise 1,893 volumes and are thought to be the longest continual documentation of a single dynasty in the world. With the exception of two records compiled during the 1910–1945 Japanese colonial era, the records are the 151st national treasure of South Korea and listed in UNESCO's Memory of the World registry.

Since 2006,^[3] the annals have been digitized and made available online by the National Institute of Korean History. Both modern Korean translations in the Hangul script and the original Classical Chinese text are available.^[4] In January 2012, the National Institute of Korean History announced a plan to translate them to English by the year 2033. The work was scheduled to start in 2014 with an initial budget of ₩500 million, but it was estimated that an allocation of ₩40 billion is needed to complete the project.^[5]

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