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Kyunghyang Shinmun
South Korean centre-left / progressive
Kyunghyang Shinmun is South Korea's first employee-owned major daily, run as a cooperative since 1998. It occupies a centre-left, moderate-progressive position in South Korea's media landscape and is editorially independent from corporate or government control. Its coverage of the Trump administration—particularly on trade tariffs, alliance burden-sharing, and North Korea diplomacy—has leaned critical.
Owned byEmployee-owned cooperative; no single external owner. The CEO is elected by employees, and the editor-in-chief requires majority approval from journalist staff.
LeaningSouth Korean centre-left / progressive
On the administrationbroadly critical
4average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun