.jpg) First page of the May 18, 1907, English-language edition | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Founder(s) | Ernest Bethell |
| Founded | 18 July 1904 |
| Language | English, Korean |
| Ceased publication | 28 August 1910 |
| Headquarters | Seoul, Korean Empire |
| Circulation | 13,256 (peak, across every language edition, May 1908) |
The Korea Daily News was an English-language newspaper published in the Korean Empire between 1904 and 1910. It also published editions in Korean mixed script and Hangul under the name Taehan Maeil Sinbo (Korean: 대한매일신보; Hanja: 大韓每日申報).
After a few trial issues under the name Korea Times, the newspaper formally launched as the Daily News on 18 July 1904. It was published by Ernest Bethell, a British citizen who sharply criticized the Empire of Japan's rapid encroachment on Korean sovereignty. After Tokyo began indirectly ruling Korea in 1905, Bethell was one of the only newspaper publishers able to write critically about Japan, although he and the newspaper were subject to increasing retaliation.
The newspaper was sold after Bethell's death in 1909, and became an organ of the colonial government called Maeil Sinbo. It was published until the 1945 liberation of Korea, when it was seized by the United States occupying force and reorganized into today's Seoul Shinmun.[1][2]
Some issues of the English and most of the Korean issues are freely available on the Korean Newspaper Archive website.[3][4]
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:2was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ 대한매일신보(영문) [The Korea Daily News]. Korean Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
- ^ 대한매일신보 [Daehan Maeil Sinbo]. Korean Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 2 February 2024.