Scope
The first layer of the corpus focuses on stone stupas (석탑, 石塔) and explicitly distinguishes Silla, Paekche, Koguryŏ, Grand Silla, Koryŏ and Chosŏn. Funerary stupas of masters (승탑, 僧塔 / 부도, 浮屠) and reliquary stupas (사리탑, 舍利塔) are kept separate so that monuments with different architectural functions are not conflated. For Koguryŏ, no surviving stone pagoda is artificially added to this layer: the mainly wooden pagoda remains belong to a distinct archaeological corpus.
Organisation
The catalogue is designed as a database filterable by kingdom, date, type, number of stories, location and heritage status. The main view follows a chronological sequence from the earliest to the latest monument and links each entry to its location data and, where image rights permit, a photographic thumbnail.
Reference sources
Method: when a precise year is not securely attested, the date is left as a period or century rather than assigning an invented exact date.