Daily newspaper in South Korea. It was established in 1988 after widespread purges forced out dissidt journalists, and was visioned as an alternative to existing newspapers, which were regarded as unduly influced by the authoritarian governmt at the time.
As of 2016, it has be voted as the most trusted news organization by Korean journalists for nine consecutive years but also it is the least influtial news outlet by the survey.
The newspaper was originally established as Hankyoreh Shinmun (Korean: 한겨레신문 ) on 15 May 1988 by ex-journalists from The Dong-a Ilbo and The Chosun Ilbo. At the time, governmt csors were in every newsroom, newspaper contt was virtually dictated by the Ministry of Culture and Information, and newspapers had nearly the same articles on every page.
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The Hankyoreh was intded to provide an indepdt, left-leaning and liberal-nationalist alternative to mainstream newspapers regarded as blindly pro-business and opposed to national reunification. To underscore its patriotism and its break with tradition, The Hankyoreh became the first daily to completely reject the use of hanja and use only hangul; it continues to make only limited use of the Latin alphabet and limits the use of loanwords. It was also the first newspaper in Korea to be printed horizontally instead of vertically.
The Hankyoreh is the most critical of Japan among major South Korean media outlets. On October 7, 2016, it published article arguing that South Korea's anti-Japanese and Japan's anti-Korean stimts were completely differt, and that it was wrong to conflate the two. In particular, the newspaper argues that Korea's anti-Japan does not lead to hate crimes against the Japanese, and is a legitimate emotion of the country.
On the conflictual nature of the territorial sovereignty of the Liancourt Rocks (Dokdo in Korean, Takeshima in Japanese), although exceeded by The Chosun Ilbo in its coverage, The Hankyoreh's coverage has be described in A Comparative Analysis of News Coverage of Dokdo Island by Yoon Youngchul and E. Gwangho as reflecting the foreign policy interest of South Korea versus Japan.
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In line with the newspaper's nationalism and aspirations for reunification, its reporting of inter-Korean and East Asian affairs is based on its editorial policy seeking reconciliation, stability and peaceful co-prosperity through dialogue rather than pressure on the governmt of North Korea. In terms of national affairs, Cheongwadae, Office of the Presidt, studies on the editorial policies of South Korean newspapers have found that Hankyoreh Shinmun, which published its first issue early in the Roh Tae-woo administration, has shown little fluctuation from administration to administration.
The Hankyoreh also runs a Hankyoreh Foundation for Reunification and Culture as a forum for advocacy of peace and reunification on the Korean pinsula.
Notwithstanding the newspaper's support for democracy, human rights, and free speech in South Korea, in June 2009, The Hankyoreh described the arrest and imprisonmt of two US journalists in North Korea, condemned by Reporters Without Borders, as a sham trial,
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Other legacies of its early dissidt history include a strong emphasis on human rights in South Korea, a position it continues to hold today
The Hankyoreh's advocacy of human rights also extds to North Koreans and tds to support normalization of relations with the U.S. and have be critical of approaches towards improving the situation by couraging system collapse such as the Lefkowitz approach and absorption by South Korea or by couraging defections.
The Hankyoreh opposes csorship and wiretapping and courages active debate on news that is circulated, and like many newspapers in South Korea, is opposed to circulation of graphic news contt and took a strong stance in the instance of the video footage of Kim Sun-il's death in Iraq.
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It strongly couraged coverage of the 2008 demonstrations and a greater understanding of candlelight spirit that academics are referring to as an emergce of a new social movemt and form of democracy in South Korea that protests policy developmt on trade, liberalization of public education, the privatization of health, and the vironmtal consequces of a cross-country canal project without substantial public opinion gathering.
The Hankyoreh has campaigned for higher standards of ethics in journalism since its founding and had initiated a campaign against journalists' taking bribes, which had be customary in the industry in South Korea until the late 1990s.
The Hankyoreh shows a favorable tone for the Democratic Party of Korea, but opposes their somewhat socially conservative approach to LGBT rights.
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The Hankyoreh supported protectionism in the early days of its foundation, but now it is closer to the tone of support for free trade. The Hankyoreh described Joe Bid's protectionist policy in 2022 negatively, referring to the reactions of experts and European countries, and pointed out that it was economic nationalism (경제적 민족주의) similar to Donald Trump's.
The newspaper currtly has more than 60, 000 citiz shareholders, none of whom have a more than one perct share. Core shareholders include studts, professors, lawyers, writers, liberals and urban industrial workers. The company remains inttionally unlisted to avoid hostile takeover; it has also never shown three consecutive years of profit, one of the requiremts for listing. Readership of the newspaper is evly distributed betwe provinces and the major metropolitan areas, of which 63.2% were in their twties and thirties, and 44.5% were college graduates. The Hankyoreh's readership is mostly of low to middle class income.
After three decades in print, The Hankyoreh's subscriber base is still comparatively small. Its circulation of about 600, 000 readers, puts it at one third the size of any of the three major dailies (The Chosun Ilbo, JoongAng Ilbo, and The Dong-a Ilbo), though still ahead of specialist economic dailies. It is the fourth largest newspaper in Korea. The Hankyoreh's editorial contt consists of stridt criticism of the three major newspapers.
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In 2009, The Hankyoreh joined Amnesty International, the Broadcaster Producers Association of Korea, and other civic groups in expressing concern over the atypical behavior exhibited by prosecutors in the dettion of Korean TV channel MBC journalists and the attack on press freedom in South Korea.
The arrest of journalists and the continued persecution of the press have be primary concerns for The Hankyoreh and other international journalist organizations.
The climate section is called ClimateChange& and covers topics such as nuclear power, vironmtal and ecological destruction, dangered and at-risk species, and gre pledges. The paper has be critical of nuclear power for safety concerns, and has published multiple editorials
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Earned it the Journalists Association of Korea and National Human Rights Commission of Korea's 11th annual Human Rights Reporting Prize in 2022, with the selection committee stating it had highly appraised the series' on-the-ground coverage of lives uprooted by climate change, which shows that the climate crisis is ultimately an issue of inequality and justice, and its ability to unravel the climate crisis from the perspective of human rights.
In 2014, it partnered with a comic artists union, Toonion, to create a global creative contt company called RollingStory, which launched an online sharing platform, Spottoon, for South Korean digital comics in 2015.
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