It has been known that test collections play an important role for researches in information retrieval. A variety of test collections have been created in foreign countries, and have been heavily used by researchers. Although research interests in Hangul information retrieval have been rapidly grown up in Korea these days, lack of Hangul test collec tions makes it difficult to develop retrieval techniques for Hangul texts. This study describes the development of the KRIST test collection. The KRIST test collection consists of 13.515 bibliographic records. 30 queries and a list of relevant documents to the queries.