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Some sources that could be used

Currently, this article relies too heavily on primary sources. I found two sources that discuss the Korean Herald to different extents.

A Critical Media Analysis of the Korea Herald: A Controversy over the Emperor’s Remarks by Takeshi Suzuki. There is a bit of info on the company here:

To begin with, the Korea Herald has been one of the two leading English Dailies in South Korea since 1977.2 It has to take its plural readership into consideration, since it is not a translation of the Hangul language newspaper. Its current circulation is two hundred eighty thousand strong, 60% of which is sold domestically, and 40% in one hundred and forty-eight foreign countries. The readership of this newspaper is generally made up of the educated classes in Korea and in the other countries where it is sold. Of its domestic readers, for instance, about 10% are students, 15% military, and 10% foreigners. Therefore, the Korea Herald is written not only for Korean readers but also for international readers, including Japanese.

Framing a Revolution: Korea’s English-Language Newspapers in 1960. This has a lot of detail on a bunch of Korean newspapers but mainly focuses on these newspapers' relationship with the Korean government and the April Revolution: pdf web page

For example it gives the founding date for the Korea Herald and Korea Times:

The Times began in 1950, with The Republic [ie. Korea Herald] following in 1953

The issue with this source however is that while it is a doctoral thesis which is a reliable source according to WP:SCHOLARSHIP, it also mentions that we should be cautious in doing so. Perhaps we can only use it for matters of fact. I'm also not sure if this thesis was actually accepted or not. I assume only accepted thesis are published on the university's website but I don't know.

However, I never read through the whole dissertation, and I didn't think two source will be enough here anyway, so I didn't bother to actually cite these sources anywhere. Hopefully others can find more secondary sources in Korean and then this article could be improved. J2UDY7r00CRjH (talk) 16:33, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]