The ''Hanseong sunbo'' was Korea's first modern

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. It began publication on October 31, 1883 as the official mouthpiece of the Korean government. It was published by the Office of Culture and Information (Bangmunguk, 박문국, 博文局) and used Hanmun (literary Chinese) throughout. It appeared three times a month until its closure in 1884 in the wake of the failed Gapsin Coup. It later reemerged in 1886 as a weekly, the ''Hanseong Jubo'' (한성주보, 漢城周報), now using a mixture of

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and

Hanja Hanja (Hangul: ; Hanja: , ), alternatively known as Hancha, are Chinese characters () used in the writing of Korean. Hanja was used as early as the Gojoseon period, the first ever Korean kingdom. (, ) refers to Sino-Korean vocabulary, wh ...

scripts. Its contents included editorials, news, literary commentary, and even advertisements. Korea's first newspaper was the bilingual ''Chosen shinpo'', introduced by the Japanese in the treaty port of

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in 1881. Altman, Albert A. (1984), "Korea's First Newspaper: The Japanese Chosen shinpo", ''The Journal of Asian Studies'' 43 (4): 685–696

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