History Of Newspapers In Korea
Modern newspapers have been published in Korea since 1881, with the first native Korean newspaper being published in 1883. Joseon period ''Chōsen Shinpō'' The history of modern newspapers in Korea begins in the Joseon period, with the publication of the Japanese newspaper ''Chōsen Shinpō'' on December 10, 1881. It was the first modern newspaper to be published in Korea. Japan's own first newspaper, the 1861 ', was published in English by an Englishman. Twelve issues of the ''Chōsen Shinpō'' are known to exist. Its articles are published mostly in Japanese or Classical Chinese (which educated Koreans Brushtalk, would have been able to read), but it did have one article that was known to have been published in the Korean script Hangul. Japanese newspapers went on to have a significant influence in Korean newspaper history. However, after the ''Chōsen Shinpō'', new Japanese newspapers did not arise in Korea until around 1890. Scholar Park Yong-gu () speculates that ...
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