Outlet track record
The Korea Times
South Korean center-left
The Korea Times is South Korea's oldest English-language daily, founded in 1950 and currently owned by Dongwha Enterprise, a diversified industrial conglomerate with no prior media background. Its editorial orientation is center to center-left by South Korean standards, with a high-credibility rating from independent fact-checkers. Coverage of the Trump administration's second term is mixed — it reports US-Korea alliance and trade issues matter-of-factly, but editorials have pushed back on Trump's tariff increases and their impact on South Korea.
Owned byDongwha Enterprise, a South Korean building and industrial materials conglomerate, which acquired the paper in 2015 after an embezzlement scandal at its prior parent, Hankook Ilbo Media Group; sister publication of the Korean-language daily Hankook Ilbo
LeaningSouth Korean center-left
On the administrationmixed
3.3average bias score across 3 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun