The ''Hwangseong Sinmun'' ("Capital Gazette" or "Imperial Capital Gazette") (1898-1910) was one of Korea's earliest Korean-language dailies. It was established by Namgung Ok (; 1863-1939) and Na Sugyeong (; 1861-1926) in 1898 to serve as a mouthpiece for those elements of the Korean progressive movement less keen on the strong Christian orientation of the country's other major reform-minded newspaper, '' The Independent''. Si il yabangseong daegok

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Korean mixed script Korean mixed script () is a form of writing the Korean language that uses a mixture of the Korean alphabet or ''hangul'' () and ''hanja'' (, ), the Korean name for Chinese characters. The distribution on how to write words usually follows th ...

, one of the paper's most notable contributors was Shin Chaeho, the

Korean nationalist historian Korean nationalist historiography is a way of writing Korean history that centers on the Korean '' minjok'', an ethnically or racially defined Korean nation. This kind of historiography emerged in the early twentieth century among Korean intelle ...

. Reflecting its reformist bent, the ''Hwangseong sinmun'' published in a mixture of Hanja and native Korean script. In the wake of Japan's assumption of protectorship over the Korean Empire in 1905, the newspaper responded with strongly worded criticisms. Most prominent among these was an editorial by Jang Jiyeon (, 1864-1921) entitled, " I Wail Bitterly Today ( or ). The newspaper was forced to close soon after the Japanese annexation of Korea in 1910. Throughout its thirteen years of publishing the subscription rates for the paper hovered around 3,000 copies.Andre Schmid. 2002. Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919. New York: Columbia University Press, p.51.

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