Chosun Ilbo
The Chosun Ilbo, founded in 1920, is South Korea's largest daily newspaper by circulation. Owned by the Bang family, it anchors the country's conservative press and is consistently characterized as right-leaning, generally supportive of conservative parties and a hard line on North Korea. Its Korean-language website is among the most-read news destinations in the country.
Chosun Ilbo at a glance
- Country
- South Korea
- Region
- East Asia · Asia
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Right-leaning
- Founded
- 1920
- Published from
- Seoul
- Website
- chosun.com ↗
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How Crosswire groups Chosun Ilbo
Crosswire groups Chosun Ilbo as Right-leaning for comparisons within South Korea's directory. This is an approximate Crosswire label, not a verified rating of its individual articles or a claim that every journalist shares one position. In South Korea, The Hankyoreh is listed as Left-leaning, while The Korea Times and The Korea Herald are listed as Centrist — so you can open Chosun Ilbo beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where Chosun Ilbo sits in South Korea's press
Chosun Ilbo was founded in 1920 and is published from Seoul. It is one of 6 outlets tracked in South Korea, and one of 5 daily newspapers among them — the others being The Korea Times, The Korea Herald, Korea JoongAng Daily and The Hankyoreh. By outlets tracked, South Korea ranks third of the 33 countries on Crosswire's Asia hub, which lists 169 outlets in all.
Across Asia, Crosswire tracks 67 of the 396 daily newspapers in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Chosun Ilbo outside South Korea, starting with East Asia, are The UB Post (Mongolia), The Hindu (India), Dawn (Pakistan) and Prothom Alo (Bangladesh). Opening one of them beside Chosun Ilbo is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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