Chosun Ilbo
The Chosun Ilbo, founded in 1920, is South Korea's largest daily newspaper by circulation. Owned by the Bang family, it anchors the country's conservative press and is consistently characterized as right-leaning, generally supportive of conservative parties and a hard line on North Korea. Its Korean-language website is among the most-read news destinations in the country.
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Is Chosun Ilbo left-leaning, right-leaning or centrist?
Chosun Ilbo is generally regarded as right-leaning in its editorial orientation, according to widely cited media-bias assessments of South Korea's press. In South Korea, The Hankyoreh is listed as Left-leaning, while The Korea Times and The Korea Herald are listed as Centrist — so you can open Chosun Ilbo beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
Read Chosun Ilbo beside another title from South Korea and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Two dailies from South Korea covering the same day will usually agree on the facts and differ on the ordering: which story is worth the top of the page, how the headline characterises it, and which follow-ups get space. Those are Chosun Ilbo's editorial choices, and they are easiest to see side by side. Because Chosun Ilbo is listed as right-leaning, the sharpest contrast is usually a left-leaning title from South Korea on the same morning: the facts rarely differ, but which consequence is treated as the story often does.
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