Yonhap
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Yonhap News Agency is South Korea's largest news agency
. It is a publicly-funded company, and based in Seoul
, South Korea
. Yonhap supplies domestic, foreign news and other information to newspaper, TV broadcast and other media in South Korea.
agency, signed in 2002. It is the only Korean wire service that works with foreign news agencies, and provides a limited but freely available selection of news on its Internet website in English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Arabic and French.
Yonhap was the host news agency of the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics, and was elected twice to the board of OANA
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Yonhap is South Korea's only news agency large enough to have 41 correspondents abroad and 110 reporters across the nation. Its largest shareholder is the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS), South Korea's largest public broadcaster.
In 2003, the South Korean government passed a law giving financial and systematic assistance to the agency, to reinforce staff and provide equipment. In the legislation, it has also been given the role of "promoting the country's image" to an international audience. The head of the Yonhap agency is usually affiliated with the government, which critics say harms press freedom and has an impact on news- gathering. However it is government affiliation, rather that press laws (which are supportive of press freedom), which are said to be the cause of any limitations, though the agency does criticise the government.
News agency
A news agency is an organization of journalists established to supply news reports to news organizations: newspapers, magazines, and radio and television broadcasters. Such an agency may also be referred to as a wire service, newswire or news service.-History:The oldest news agency is Agence...
. It is a publicly-funded company, and based in Seoul
Seoul
Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...
, South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
. Yonhap supplies domestic, foreign news and other information to newspaper, TV broadcast and other media in South Korea.
History
Yonhap (meaning "associated" in Korean) was established on December 19, 1980, through the merger of Hapdong News Agency and Orient Press on the model of Japan's Kyodo News Agency. It maintains various agreements with 65 non-Korean news agencies, and also has a services-exchange agreement with North Korea's KCNAKorean Central News Agency
The Korean Central News Agency is the state news agency of North Korea and has existed since December 5, 1946. KCNA is headquartered in the capital city of Pyongyang...
agency, signed in 2002. It is the only Korean wire service that works with foreign news agencies, and provides a limited but freely available selection of news on its Internet website in English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Arabic and French.
Yonhap was the host news agency of the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics, and was elected twice to the board of OANA
OANA
Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies is an association of news agencies from UNESCO member states in the Asia-Pacific region. It was previously known as Organisation of Asian News Agencies.It was formed in 1961 on UNESCO's initiative...
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Yonhap is South Korea's only news agency large enough to have 41 correspondents abroad and 110 reporters across the nation. Its largest shareholder is the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS), South Korea's largest public broadcaster.
In 2003, the South Korean government passed a law giving financial and systematic assistance to the agency, to reinforce staff and provide equipment. In the legislation, it has also been given the role of "promoting the country's image" to an international audience. The head of the Yonhap agency is usually affiliated with the government, which critics say harms press freedom and has an impact on news- gathering. However it is government affiliation, rather that press laws (which are supportive of press freedom), which are said to be the cause of any limitations, though the agency does criticise the government.
See also
- Media of South Korea
- Communications in South KoreaCommunications in South KoreaCommunications services improved dramatically in the 1980s with the assistance of foreign partners and as a result of the development of the electronics industry...
- List of Korea-related topics
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