The primary mission of the Korean Collection Consortium of North America is to support Korean Studies teaching and research programs in North America. Its members select, organize, and make available Korean Studies scholarly resources, and provide library services to optimize access and use of the Korean Studies collections developed through the Korean Collection Consortium of North America. We aim to achieve this mission through providing support to libraries serving Koreanists in higher education and consulting with library administrators in the interest of improving Korean Studies collections and library services for Korean Studies faculty and students.
| 1994 | University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University, Harvard University, University of Hawai‘i, at Mānoa, University of Southern California, and University of Washington first launched the Consortium. |
| 1995 | University of Chicago joined the Consortium |
| 1996 | University of California, Los Angeles join the Consortium |
| 1997 | University of Toronto joined the Consortium as the first institution in Canada. |
| 1999 | The Consortium concluded an initial five-year program successfully. |
| 2000 | The proposal to the Korea Foundation for the funding of the second five-year program (2000-2004) was approved. |
| 2003 | University of Michigan joined the Consortium. |
| 2005 | The Consortium concluded the second five-year program successfully. |
| 2006 | The proposal to the Korea Foundation for the funding ($30,000 per year) of the third five-year program (2006-2011) was approved. |
| 2006 | Two universities on the West Coast, Stanford University and the University of British Columbia, Canada, joined the Consortium. |
| 2011 | The Consortium concluded the third five-year program successfully. |
| 2012 | The proposal to the Korea Foundation for the funding ($20,000 per year) of the fourth five-year program (2012-2016) including two new memberships, Duke University and Princeton University was approved. |
| 2016 | The Consortium concluded the fourth five-year program successfully. |
| 2017 | The proposal to the Korea Foundation for the funding ($18,000 per year for collection development, $10,000 per year for research grant, and $8,218 for LibGuides and LibAnswers) of a three-year program (2017-2020) was approved. University of British Columbia withdrew its membership from the Consortium. |
| 2020 | The proposal to the Korea Foundation for the funding ($15,000 per year for collection development, and $8,975 for LibGuides and LibAnswers) of a three-year program (2020-2021 through 2022-2023) was approved. |
| 2023 | The proposal to the Korea Foundation for the funding ($15,000 per year for collection development of a three-year program (2023-2026 was approved. Yale Univeristy joined the consortium as a new member. |