Students are required to document a traditional custom or celebration. Students prepare a Persuasion player program using their documentation materials and present the tradition to the class. Ideally, these multimedia documents can then be indexed and become part of an archive of traditional culture in Los Angeles which can be utilized in other classes and by other researchers. Based primarily on student fieldwork projects, the Korean Online Folklore Archive is an interactive site allowing researchers and others interested in Korean cultural expression an opportunity to search a database comprised of over two hundred projects. The database can be searched using a Web page, and searches are possible on multiple fields.
Boolean searches are also possible.
Retrieved materials include written documents, audio recordings, video clips and photographs. The archive continues to grow and offers fieldworkers an opportunity to load their field data into this ever-growing archive. Indeed, a fieldworker will soon be able to load directly from the field given the proper hardware. At the same time, researchers from around the world will be able to access the search site.