English-language daily newspaper in South Korea
The Korea Herald
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| Type
| Daily
newspaper
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|---|
| Format
| Broadsheet
|
|---|
| Owner(s)
| Herald Media Inc.
|
|---|
| Publisher
| Jeon Chang-hyeop
|
|---|
| Editor
| Lee Joo-hee
|
|---|
| Staff writers
| 50
|
|---|
| Founded
| August 1953
; 70 years ago
(
1953-08
)
|
|---|
| Language
| English
|
|---|
| Headquarters
| Huam-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
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The Korean Republic
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]
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
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]
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
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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
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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
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]
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
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References
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External links
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