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| Type | Dailynewspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Herald Media Inc. |
| Publisher | Jeon Chang-hyeop |
| Editor | Lee Joo-hee |
| Staff writers | 50 |
| Founded | August 1953; 72 years ago (1953-08) |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Huam-ro 4-gil 10 Herald Square, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea |
| Country | South Korea |
| Website | www |
The Korea Herald (Korean: 코리아헤럴드) is a South KoreanEnglish-language daily newspaper founded in August 1953 and published inSeoul.[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 theAssociated Press.
The Korea Herald is operated byHerald Corporation. Herald Corporation also publishesThe 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 boomingEnglish as a foreign language sector, operating a chain ofhagwon as well as anEnglish village.
The Korea Herald is a member of theAsia News Network.[4][5]
The Korea Herald was first published on August 13, 1953, asThe Korean Republic.[6] It was a four-page, tabloid-sized, English-language daily.[1][6] In 1958,The Korean Republic published its fifth anniversary issue of 84 pages, the largest ever in Korea.[citation needed] On July 11, 1961, it increased its page sizes.[6] 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] From February 1964, its weekly overseas edition had 12 tabloid-sized pages.[6]
In August 1965,The Korean Republic was renamedThe Korea Herald.[1] In March 1970, it began publishing a tabloid-sized monthly magazine calledKorean Frontier that it distributed to universities and libraries internationally. The magazine focused on promoting Korean culture. This magazine was converted to a weekly publication calledKorean News Review in September 1972, and published on current affairs.[6] During the 1970s, the paper established branch offices abroad.[6] It had offices inNew York City,Tokyo,Hong Kong, andSydney.[6] In March 1975, the newspaper introduced Korea's first computerized typesetting system.[1] In April 1982, the daily international edition ofThe Korea Herald was launched as an eight-page tabloid.[1]
In January 1997, the company published the official newspaper of the 18th Winter Universiad.[1] In 1997, Korea Telecom selectedThe 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 toThe Guardian in 2002,The Korea Herald had a specialty in IT and business news.[7]
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]
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