The Chosun Ilbo

The Chosun Ilbo (Template:Korean, Template:Literally), also known as The Chosun Daily, is a Korean-language newspaper of record for South Korea<ref name="Press Freedom in Contemporary Asia">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="How partisan newspapers represented">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref name="News media's framing of health poli">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref name="Ideological parallelism: toward a t">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref name="CMC">Template:Cite book</ref> and among the oldest active newspapers in the country.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite book</ref> With a daily circulation of more than 1,800,000,<ref>Chosun Iilbo http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/11/30/2010113001011.html Template:Webarchive</ref> The Chosun Ilbo has been audited annually since the Audit Bureau of Circulations was established in 1993.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The Chosun Ilbo and its subsidiary company, Digital Chosun, operate the Chosun.com news website, which also publishes news in English, Chinese, and Japanese.

History

Template:Conservatism in South Korea The Chosun Ilbo Establishment Union was created in September 1919. The Chosun Ilbo newspaper was founded on 5 March 1920<ref name=":0" /> by Sin Sogu with the financial support of the Daejong Business Association.<ref name=":2">Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Cho Jin-Tae, the vice-chairman of the Daejong Business Association was appointed the first President of the newspaper in 1920.<ref name=":3">Template:Cite web</ref> However, as the Business Association failed to pay promised finances, the relationship between the Association and The Chosun Ilbo broke down five months after its founding, and Cho Jin-Tae was replaced by Yoo Moon-Hwan on 15 August 1920.<ref name=":3" />

On 6 April 1921, after only a year of publishing, The Chosun Ilbo went on hiatus due to financial troubles.<ref name=":3" />

On 31 July 1940, the newspaper published "Lessons of American Realism", the fourth part of an editorial series.<ref name=":1">Template:Cite book</ref> Ten days later<ref name=":1" /> – following issue 6,923 – the paper was declared officially discontinued by the Japanese ruling government. In the twenty years since its founding, the paper had been suspended by the Japanese government four times, and its issues confiscated over five hundred times before 1932.

When Korea gained independence in 1945, The Chosun Ilbo resumed publication after a five-year, three-month hiatus.

On 1 March 1999, The Chosun Ilbo announced that starting the following day (2 March 1999), it would be switching to the horizontal left-to-right writing style already adopted by most other newspapers by the time, ahead of the paper's 79th anniversary.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> It also made a commitment to preserve and continue using hanja characters despite the change. Consequently, the 1 March 1999 issue (Issue No. 24305) became the last issue of The Chosun Ilbo written in the vertical right-to-left style and the last mainstream Korean paper that published in the style. All issues since 2 March 1999 have been in the modern horizontal left-to-right style.

Subsidiaries

Besides the daily newspaper, the company also publishes the Weekly Chosun, the Monthly Chosun, Digital Chosun, Edu-Chosun, and ChosunBiz.

Controversies

Template:See also The Chosun Ilbo has historically taken a hardline stance against North Korea. For example, it opposed South Korean President Kim Dae-jung's Sunshine Policy, aimed at engaging North Korea through cooperation, mitigating the gap in economic power and restoring lost communication between the two Koreas. For this reason, the newspaper has attracted heavy criticism and threats from the North.<ref name=":2" />

On 6 April 2019, Deutsche Welle described The Chosun Ilbo as "an outlet notorious for its dubious and politically motivated" reporting on North Korea.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

On 31 May 2019, the newspaper reported that, based on "an unidentified source", the head diplomat of North Korea's nuclear envoy Kim Hyok-chol, had been executed by a North Korean Government firing squad.<ref>"North Korea executes nuclear envoy to U.S. after failed Trump summit: report." Template:Webarchive Kim Hjelmgaard. USA Today. 31 May 2019. Accessed 3 June 2019.</ref><ref>North Korea executed top negotiator, purged others over failed Trump summit, report says. Template:Webarchive Victoria Kim. Los Angeles Times. 31 May 2019. Accessed 3 June 2019.</ref><ref>"North Korea 'executed' officials after failed Trump summit: report." Template:Webarchive France 24 TV. 31 May 2019. Accessed 3 June 2019.</ref><ref>"North Korea Executes Envoy to Failed U.S. Summit -Media; White House Monitoring." Template:Webarchive Hyonhee Shin and Joyce Lee. U.S. News & World Report. 31 May 2019. Accessed 3 June 2019.</ref><ref>"US checking reports North Korea executed envoy, says Pompeo: South Korean paper claims Kim Hyok-chol has been killed and a negotiator put in forced labour." Template:Webarchive Justin McCurry. The Guardian. London, England. 31 May 2019. Accessed 3 June 2019.</ref><ref>"US checking reports North Korea executed top official after Trump summit, Pompeo says." Template:Webarchive CNN. 1 June 2019. Accessed 3 June 2019.</ref> However, two days later, on 2 June 2019, the top diplomat was seen at a concert sitting a few seats away from North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un.<ref>Top North Korean official reappears days after purge report. Template:Webarchive Kim Tong-Hyung, Associated Press. 3 June 2019. Accessed 3 June 2019.</ref><ref>"Senior North Korean official reappears after 'forced labour' report: Photo shows Kim Yong-chol attended an art performance with Kim Jong-un on Sunday." Template:Webarchive Daniel Hurst. The Guardian. 3 June 2019. Accessed 3 June 2019.</ref><ref>Purged? Not purged. Leading North Korean official reemerges in public. Template:Webarchive Min Joo Kim and Simon Denyer . 3 June 2019. Accessed 3 June 2019.</ref>

The Educational Broadcasting System's popular instructor Choi Tae-seong, sued a Chosun Ilbo reporter for publishing an article that defamed him as a supporter of North Korea.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

The Chosun Ilbo has been accused of being "chinilbanminjokhaengwi" (친일반민족행위, 親日反民族行爲, "pro-Japanese anti-nationalist activist"), because of controversy over its advocacy of the Korea under Japanese rule.<ref name="일제 협력"/> In 2005, the South Korean government and Korean nationalist civic activists investigated whether Chosun Ilbo 'collaborated' with the Japanese Empire.<ref name="친일파"/> The Chosun Ilbo published articles describedTemplate:By whom as excessively praising the Imperial House of Japan every year from 1938 to 1940. Until 1987, the newspaper had reported favorably on South Korea's military dictatorships.<ref name="ChosunCriticism"/>

In 2002, the prosecution sought a sentence of seven years in prison and a fine of 12 billion won for The Chosun Ilbo chairman Bang Sang-hoon, who was indicted on charges of tax evasion and embezzlement. Chairman Bang was accused of evading 6.2 billion won in gift and corporate taxes, as well as embezzling 4.5 billion won in company funds. He was arrested in August of the previous year but was released on bail and has been on trial since. On June 29, 2006, he was indicted for evading 2.35 billion won in gift taxes by transferring 65,000 shares of The Chosun Ilbo to his son through a nominal trust, and for misusing 2.57 billion won in company funds under the names of family members to increase capital in affiliates like Jogwang Publishing and Sports Chosun. The Supreme Court sentenced Chairman Bang to three years in prison with a four-year suspended sentence and a fine of 2.5 billion won for tax evasion and the misappropriation of company funds.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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See also

• Chojoongdong
• List of newspapers in South Korea
• Communications in South Korea
• Issues in reporting on North Korea

External links

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