The ''Jeguk Sinmun'' ("Imperial Post"; 1898-1910) was a

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-based Korean language newspaper founded in August 8, 1898 by Yi Jong-myeon(李鍾冕)https://encykorea.aks.ac.kr/Contents/Item/E0051244 It was published using the purely vernacular

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script and attracted a largely lower or middle class and female readership. It was less political than the other papers of the period, concentrating instead on

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s. One of its early reporters was the young

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