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The Korea Herald
TypeDaily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s)Herald Media Inc.
PublisherJeon Chang-hyeop
EditorLee Joo-hee
Staff writers50
FoundedAugust 1953; 70 years ago (1953-08)
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersHuam-ro 4-gil 10 Herald Square, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Website koreaherald.com

The Korea Herald ( Korean: 코리아헤럴드) is a leading English-language daily newspaper founded in August 1953 and published in Seoul, South Korea. [1] [2] [3] The editorial staff is composed of Korean and international writers and editors, with additional news coverage drawn from international news agencies such as the Associated Press.

The Korea Herald is operated by Herald Corporation. Herald Corporation also publishes The Herald Business, a Korean-language business daily, The Junior Herald, an English weekly for teens, The Campus Herald, a Korean-language weekly for university students. Herald Media is also active in the country's booming English as a foreign language sector, operating a chain of hagwons as well as an English village.

The Korea Herald is a member of the Asia News Network. [4] [5]

History

The Korean Republic

The Korea Herald began in August 1953 as The Korean Republic, a 4-page tabloid English-language daily. [1] In 1958, The Korean Republic published its fifth anniversary issue of 84 pages, the largest ever in Korea.[ citation needed] In February 1962, The Korean Republic published its first daily educational supplement and launched the Korean Republic English Institute (the Korea Herald Language Institute). [1]

The Korea Herald

In August 1965, The Korean Republic was renamed The Korea Herald. [1] In 1973, The Korea Herald opened a branch office in Los Angeles, the United States.[ citation needed] In March 1975, the newspaper introduced Korea's first computerized typesetting system. [1] In April 1982, the daily international edition of The Korea Herald was launched as an 8-page tabloid. [1]

Internet

The newspaper launched its website in September 1995. [1] In 1996, the publishing process for The Korea Herald was computerized.[ citation needed] In January 1997, the company published the official newspaper of the 18th Winter Universiad. [1] In 1997, Korea Telecom selected The Korea Herald as the official public database partner.[ citation needed] The first Herald School, a franchised English education center for children, opened in 2000 as the Herald Academy Inc.[ citation needed] In August of the same year, The Korea Herald began to publish 20 pages daily.[ citation needed] According to The Guardian in 2002, The Korea Herald had a specialty in IT and business news. [6]

The Junior Herald

In 2004, Herald Media won the right to manage the Seoul English Village, an English language immersion school set up by the Seoul Metropolitan City government; the Pungnap Campus opened in December 2004 and similar ones opened in the following years. [1] In May 2004, The Junior Herald, an English-language newspaper for preteens, was launched. [1]

"Insight into Korea" book series

The Korea Herald launched a book series in 2007 to mark the 20th anniversary of the civilian uprising in June 1987, which put Korea on a path to democracy. The purpose of the project was to present a comprehensive analysis of Korean society's transformation during the past two decades.

The Korea Herald has thus far published eight books under this series: Insight into Korea, Social Change in Korea, Political Change in Korea, A New National Strategy for Korea, Korean Wave, Big Bang in Capital Market, Financial Industry at a Crossroads and Insight into Dokdo.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "History" (in English and Korean). Herald Corporation Inc. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  2. ^ Yoo, Jee-ho (2024-03-08). "Top headlines in major S. Korean newspapers". Yonhap News Agency. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
  3. ^ Parvin, Gulsan Ara; Ahsan, Reazul; Rahman, Md. Habibur; Abedin, Md. Anwarul (2020). "Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: The Role of Printing Media in Asian Countries". Frontiers in Communication. 5: 100. doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2020.557593. ISSN  2297-900X.
  4. ^ "The Korea Herald Archives". Asia News Network. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  5. ^ Lim, Jeong-yeo (2019-04-25). "Asia News Network discusses past 20 years, future ahead". The Korea Herald. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  6. ^ "World news guide: Asia". The Guardian. 2002-02-05. Archived from the original on 2021-06-09.

External links

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