The Korea Times
The Korea Times is South Korea's oldest English-language daily newspaper, based in Seoul. It covers Korean national news, politics, business, and culture for domestic and international English-speaking readers. It maintains print and digital editions and is one of the country's principal English-language news sources.
The Korea Times at a glance
- Country
- South Korea
- Region
- East Asia · Asia
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Founded
- 1950
- Published from
- Seoul
- Website
- koreatimes.co.kr ↗
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How Crosswire groups The Korea Times
Crosswire groups The Korea Times as Centrist for comparisons within South Korea's directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate. In South Korea, The Hankyoreh is listed as Left-leaning, while Chosun Ilbo is listed as Right-leaning — so you can open The Korea Times beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where The Korea Times sits in South Korea's press
The Korea Times was founded in 1950 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 Herald, Korea JoongAng Daily, Chosun Ilbo 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 The Korea Times outside South Korea, starting with East Asia, are South China Morning Post (China), Yomiuri Shimbun (Japan), Taipei Times (Taiwan) and South China Morning Post (Hong Kong). Opening one of them beside The Korea Times is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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