<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><DIV>Masaharu Shimokawa, a former editor and Korea bureau chief of <EM>Mainichi Shimbun</EM>, gives some clues in an article, "How Japan Covered Korea," that cites <EM>Chosun Shinbo</EM> as the first Japanese newspaper in Korea, founded in Pusan in 1881. The article also mentions papers published after "annexation" of Korea in 1910 in Korean, Japanese and English. This article appears in <EM>Korea Witness: 135 Years of War, Crisis and News in the Land of the Morning Calm</EM>, published a few years ago by EunHaeng NaMu in Seoul and available on amazon and barnesandnoble. (I was co-editor with Choe Sang-Hun.) Mr. Shimokawa has written a number of books and could doubtless point to other sources directly relevant to your topic.</DIV>
<DIV>Hope this helps a little.</DIV>
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<DIV>Don Kirk<BR></DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> カプリオマークE <caprio@rikkyo.ac.jp><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Sat, November 13, 2010 5:46:02 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [KS] Choson-era broadsheets<BR></FONT><BR>Dear list members,<BR><BR>I am interested in information regarding<BR>Choson-era early modern media, particularly whether<BR>there existed in Korea broadsheets that<BR>predated the first newspapers. I remember<BR>reading something about this but cannot seem<BR>to locate the source. Any information, including their<BR>Korean name, would be of great help.<BR><BR>Thanks in advance.<BR><BR>Mark Caprio<BR>Rikkyo University<BR></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>