The Hankyoreh
The Hankyoreh is a Seoul daily founded in 1988 by journalists dismissed under military governments and funded through a public share offering; it remains owned largely by citizen shareholders and employees. Consistently characterized as progressive and left-leaning, it emphasizes labor, human rights, and engagement with North Korea, serving as the main counterweight to Korea's conservative dailies.
The Hankyoreh at a glance
- Country
- South Korea
- Region
- East Asia · Asia
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Left-leaning
- Founded
- 1988
- Ownership
- Founded by public subscription and widely held by its readers and staff
- Published from
- Seoul
- Website
- hani.co.kr ↗
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How Crosswire groups The Hankyoreh
Crosswire groups The Hankyoreh as Left-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 Korea Times and The Korea Herald are listed as Centrist, while Chosun Ilbo is listed as Right-leaning — so you can open The Hankyoreh beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where The Hankyoreh sits in South Korea's press
The Hankyoreh was founded in 1988, is published from Seoul and is founded by public subscription and widely held by its readers and staff. 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 Chosun Ilbo. 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 The Hankyoreh outside South Korea, starting with East Asia, are The Hindu (India), Dawn (Pakistan), Prothom Alo (Bangladesh) and Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). Opening one of them beside The Hankyoreh is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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