Haejo sinmun

Haejo Sinmun
Cover of the February 26, 1908 first issue. The text is written almost entirely in the Korean script Hangul, with some Cyrillic and Hanja.
PresidentCh'oe Pong-jun
EditorWang Chang-dong
FoundedFebruary 26, 1908 (1908-02-26)
LanguageKorean (Hangul)
Ceased publicationMay 26, 1908 (1908-05-26)
CityVladivostok
CountryRussian Empire
Circulation400–500

Haejo Sinmun was a daily Korean-language newspaper published in the Korean enclave Sinhanch'on, Vladivostok, Russian Empire in 1908. It was the first Korean-language daily newspaper published in Russia.

It was the first of a series of Korean-language newspapers produced in Vladivostok that promoted the Korean independence movement. It was followed by the 1908–1910 Taedong kongbo, 1911 Taeyangbo, and 1912–1914 Kwŏnŏp sinmun.

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