# The Hankyoreh

> The Hankyoreh is a news source in the TOLD catalogue, based in South Korea. TOLD classifies its editorial position as **Left**.

- **Domain:** english.hani.co.kr
- **Website:** https://english.hani.co.kr
- **Country:** South Korea
- **Region:** Asia
- **Language:** Korean (English edition: english.hani.co.kr)
- **Editorial position on TOLD:** Left
- **Founded:** 1988

## About

Hankyoreh arrived in 1988 with no corporate backers, funded by the very journalists the military government had expelled. The outlet South Korean conservatives most want silenced is also, according to Korean journalists polled for nine consecutive years, the country's most trusted newspaper. A martial law decree in December 2024 that specifically ordered its power cut confirmed both facts at once.

## Profile

- **Ownership:** Citizen-owned; founded via public micro-funding from over 200,000 subscribers; membership model introduced May 2021; no single corporate or government controlling shareholder
- **Funding:** Reader subscriptions, membership fees, and advertising revenue
- **Focus areas:** South Korean politics, democracy, labour rights, human rights, inter-Korean affairs and reunification, social justice, and international news


## What the position means

TOLD classifies what an outlet publishes over time, based on ownership, funding
and focus. It describes a pattern; it is not a rating of quality and not a
ranking. Nothing in TOLD sorts, hides or promotes a source by its position.
State-aligned and partisan outlets are in the catalogue on purpose, labelled.

## Assessment note

Latest assessment: 2026-03-29. Generated with TOLD Source Prompt Brief v1.2.7. TOLD summarizes framing patterns and third-party classifications; it does not assess factual accuracy, intent, or legitimacy. External classifications: 6 (4 themes).

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