Yonhap news agency is a sole
news agency in
South Korea that supplies domestic and foreign news and information to
newspaper and
TV broadcast[?] and other subscribers in South Korea. It was founded on December 19, 1980 after the merger of
Hapdong News Agency[?] and
Orient Press[?].
From the homepage:
- As the sole news agency in the Republic of Korea, Yonhap maintains contracts, news exchange and cooperation agreements and other pacts with 47 foreign news agencies including AP, AFP[?], Xinhua[?], Kyodo, Itar Tass[?], and DPA.
- Yonhap, the host news agency of the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics[?],
is a company whose shareholders embrace all of South Korea's
broadcasting networks and newspapers.
Yonhap, elected twice to the board of the Organization of
Asia-Pacific News Agencies(OANA), hosted the OANA Executive
Board meetings in
October 1982[?] and in
September 1993[?] in
Seoul.