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 The Chosun Ilbo Building inGwanghwamun Plaza (2012) | |
| Type | Dailynewspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | ChosunMedia |
| Founder(s) | Sin Sogu |
| President | Bang Sang-Hun |
| Editor | Park Doo-Sik |
| Founded | 5 March 1920 |
| Political alignment | |
| Language | Korean |
| Headquarters | Jung District, Seoul, South Korea |
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| Website | chosun.com(in Korean) english.chosun.com(in English) |
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| Hangul | 조선일보 |
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| Hanja | 朝鮮日報 |
| Revised Romanization | Joseon Ilbo |
| McCune–Reischauer | Chosŏn Ilbo |
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| Part ofa series on the |
| Culture of Korea |
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The Chosun Ilbo (Korean: 조선일보,lit. 'Korea Daily Newspaper'), also known asThe Chosun Daily, is aKorean-languagenewspaper of record for South Korea[1][2][3][4][9] and among the oldest active newspapers in the country.[10] With a daily circulation of more than 1,800,000,[11]TheChosun Ilbo has been audited annually since the Audit Bureau of Circulations was established in 1993.[12]TheChosun Ilbo and its subsidiary company, Digital Chosun, operate theChosun.com news website, which also publishes news in English, Chinese, and Japanese.
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The Chosun Ilbo Establishment Union was created in September 1919.TheChosun Ilbo newspaper was founded on 5 March 1920[10] by Sin Sogu with the financial support of the Daejong Business Association.[13][14] Cho Jin-Tae, the vice-chairman of the Daejong Business Association was appointed the first President of the newspaper in 1920.[15] However, as the Business Association failed to pay promised finances, the relationship between the Association andThe Chosun Ilbo broke down five months after its founding, and Cho Jin-Tae was replaced by Yoo Moon-Hwan on 15 August 1920.[15]
On 6 April 1921, after only a year of publishing,The Chosun Ilbo went on hiatus due to financial troubles.[15]
On 31 July 1940, the newspaper published "Lessons of American Realism", the fourth part of an editorial series.[16] Ten days later[16] – 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.
WhenKorea 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.[17] It also made a commitment to preserve and continue usinghanja characters despite the change. Consequently, the 1 March 1999 issue (Issue No. 24305) became the last issue ofThe 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.
Besides the daily newspaper, the company also publishes theWeekly Chosun, theMonthly Chosun,Digital Chosun,Edu-Chosun, andChosunBiz.
TheChosun Ilbo has historically taken a hardline stance against North Korea. For example, it opposed South Korean PresidentKim Dae-jung'sSunshine Policy, aimed at engaging North Korea through cooperation, mitigating the gap ineconomic power and restoring lost communication between the two Koreas. For this reason, the newspaper has attracted heavy criticism and threats from the North.[13]
On 6 April 2019,Deutsche Welle describedThe Chosun Ilbo as "an outlet notorious for its dubious and politically motivated" reporting on North Korea.[18]
On 31 May 2019, the newspaper reported that, based on "an unidentified source", the head diplomat of North Korea's nuclear envoyKim Hyok-chol, had been executed by a North Korean Government firing squad.[19][20][21][22][23][24] 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 leaderKim Jong Un.[25][26][27]
TheEducational Broadcasting System's popular instructor Choi Tae-seong, sued aChosun Ilbo reporter for publishing an article that defamed him as a supporter of North Korea.[28]
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 theKorea under Japanese rule.[8] In 2005, theSouth Korean government and Korean nationalist civic activists investigated whether Chosun Ilbo 'collaborated' with theJapanese Empire.[7]The Chosun Ilbo published articles described[by whom?] as excessively praising theImperial House of Japan every year from 1938 to 1940. Until 1987, the newspaper had reported favorably on South Korea's military dictatorships.[5]
In 2002, the prosecution sought a sentence of seven years in prison and a fine of 12 billion won forThe 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 ofThe 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.[29]
. 일제강점기엔 일왕 생일 충성 맹세 / 5·16쿠데타 비호, 5·18 항쟁 먹칠 / 김일성 사망 오보 34년 만에 정정 / 고비마다 진실 비틀며 왜곡 일삼다..[.Pledge of allegiance on the birthday of the emperor during the Japanese colonial era / Protection of the 5/16 coup d'état, disgrace of the 5/18 uprising / Misinformation on the death of Kim Il-sung corrected after 34 years / Twisted and distorted the truth at every juncture...]
조선일보의 위와 같은 보도는 일제의 침략 전쟁을 미화하고 나아가 일제 의 침략 전쟁에 조선을 후방 병참 기지화 ...
The prominent "big three" publications — Chosun Ilbo, Dong-A Ilbo, and Joongang Ilbo — are newspapers of record with a combined three million subscribers.
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