Inventory of the South Korea newspaper collection
Finding aid prepared by Hoover Institution Library and Archives Staff, Simon Ertz, Sarah Cassone
Hoover Institution Library and Archives
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Title: South Korea newspaper collection
Date (inclusive): 1945-1996
Collection Number: 2019C105
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Korean
Physical Description:
23 oversize boxes
(28.5 Linear Feet)
Abstract: The newspapers in this collection were originally collected by the Hoover Institution Library and transferred to the Archives
in 2019. The South Korea newspaper collection (1946-1996) comprises nine different titles of publication, in both Korean and
English. All of the titles within this collection have been further analyzed in Stanford University Libraries catalog.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
Use
Due to the assembled nature of this collection, copyright status varies across its scope. Copyright is assumed to be held
by the original newspaper publications, which should be contacted wherein public domain has not yet passed. The Hoover Institution
can neither grant nor deny permission to publish or reproduce materials from this collection.
Acquisition Information
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2019 from the Hoover Institution Library.
Preferred Citation
The following information is suggested along with your citation: [Title/Date of Publication], South Korea newspaper collection
[Box no.], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Historical Note
The Hoover Institution's collecting history regarding newspapers spans over 80 years. Newspapers became an integral core component
of the "Hoover War Collection" soon after it was established in 1919 as a repository of materials on World War I and the states
and societies involved in it. The subsequent widening of focus to cover the themes of "War, Revolution, and Peace" caused
the collection to grow further in scope and volume into a variety of directions.
As a result, over the course of 80 years, thousands of newspaper titles from close to a hundred different countries were collected.
They document major political and historical events, such as military conflicts and wars, the collapse of political systems,
states, and empires, the establishment of radical and revolutionary regimes, and the corollaries of all these developments,
including economic crises, famines, and migration for political reasons.
In 2000-2001, the Hoover Library's newspaper collection activities came to an almost complete halt. Around that time, the
"realignment" of library activities and collections at Stanford saw the transfer of more than 2,000 newspaper titles from
specific (mostly non-European) countries from the Hoover Library to other libraries at Stanford. Moreover, prior to the realignment,
a significant but unknown volume of paper copies of newspapers (including many Russian/Soviet titles) were discarded after
being microfilmed.
In totality, the remaining paper copies of newspapers at Hoover - excluding microfilm holdings - comprise more than 5,000
unique titles, of which at least many hundreds can be considered rare or very rare. These remaining newspaper collections
at Hoover contain materials dating from all periods of the 20th century, with some titles reaching back into the 19th century.
While the variety and diversity of papers is considerable, most titles fall into one of three groups: 1) general daily and
weekly newspapers; 2) party and propaganda newspapers; 3) newspapers addressing national or ethnic minorities, émigré newspapers,
veterans' papers, professional and union papers.
The largest number of newspaper runs include copies from the first half of the 20th century. Newspapers from this period illuminate
in particular the two world wars and their consequences as well as political, social, and economic developments in Europe
and beyond, including the rise of Socialist, right-wing, and Fascist ideologies and movements. Among the late 20th century
holdings, a significant number of papers reflect political change in various regions, most prominently the end of Socialist
and Communist regimes in Eastern Europe, but also revolutionary or radical political movements in non-European states, e.g.
in Latin America.
Very few holdings of individual newspaper titles possess complete or near-complete runs. However, in cases of gaps, supplementation
can sometimes be found in the form of microfilm copies available at the Hoover Library or holdings at Stanford University
Libraries.
Scope and Contents
The South Korea newspaper collection (1946-1996) consists of fourty-one newspapers and nine (9) unique titles, in both Korean
and English. Further analyzed title information can be found in Stanford University Libraries catalog.
Arrangement Statement
The South Korea newspaper collection has been organized into nine (9) series, for each title within the collection. The titles,
publication information, and Hoover-held date ranges are: 1. The Korea times. (Seoul: Korea Times Co., 1952, 1955-1958);
2. Korea union times. (Seoul: Ryang Woo Cheong, 1948); 3. The Korean republic . (Seoul: Korean Information Service, 1953-1963);
4. The Korean republic Sunday magazine. (Seoul: The Korean Republic, 1962-1964); 5. The Korean republic weekly. (Seoul: Korean
Information Service, 1964-1965); 6. The Pyongyang times. (Pyongyang: The Pyongyang Times, 1970, 1992, 1994-1996); 7. The Seoul
times. (Seoul: Min Wonsik, 1945-1946, 1948); 8. The Seoul University press. (Seoul, 1948); and 9. The union democrat. (Seoul,
1948-1949).
You will also notice a string of numbers within the series information. These numbers represent the library catalog ID for
that particular newspaper title. If input into Stanford's library catalog you will be directed to the full catalog record.
We have preserved this information within our finding aid for both the benefit and ease of the researcher, as well as our
intention to utilize it via automated linking in the future.
The materials in this collection are part of an Offsite Move Project spanning 2018-2019. The items were acquired from the
Hoover Institution Library as "news collections" and were originally housed, unboxed, on shelves via their call number (normally
a country) and ordered alphabetically by title. In some cases, newspapers were not assigned a particular country, but instead
a language designation.
Upon transfer to the Archives, the collection's materials were housed in archival boxes according to size, and afforded item
level descriptive information. Intellectual arrangement was then imposed to each collection both alphabetically by title and
chronologically by date. When searching for a title alphabetically it is important to remember that all initial articles,
particularly ones used in varying languages, are excluded in alphabetical arrangement, and the title is organized based on
the first word (despite the initial article still remaining at the beginning of the title). The formatting of the dates preserves
the packet title holdings information, which was the format used by Hoover Library Staff for decades. As a result, some dates
may appear out of order by month. In the 1980s, Hoover grew less detailed in their capturing of holdings information, resulting
in generalized statements of "many issues missing" or sometimes not recording a missing issue at all.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Korean newspapers
The Korea times. (Seoul: Korea Times Co., 1952, 1955-1958) 13243873
box 1
The Korea times (Seoul)
1952:Jul 23
box 1
The Korea times (Seoul)
1955:Feb 11-Jun 30
Scope and Contents
Missing:Mar 12-14, Apr 6-8, May 7-9,26
box 2
The Korea times (Seoul)
1955:Jul-Dec
Scope and Contents
Missing:Jul 13-14, Aug 3-5, Nov 26, Dec 30
box 3
The Korea times (Seoul)
1956:Jan 3-Jun 30
Scope and Contents
Missing:Feb 18-20, May 1
box 3
The Korea times (Seoul)
1956:Jul 2-Dec 31
Scope and Contents
Missing:Aug 14-17, 21, Oct 18, Nov 13
box 2
The Korea times (Seoul)
1957:Jan 3-Apr 22
Scope and Contents
Missing:Jan 12, 14
box 1
The Korea times (Seoul) 13243873
1958:Jul-Oct
Korea union times. (Seoul: Ryang Woo Cheong, 1948) 13243882
box 22
Korea union times (Seoul)
1948:May 31-Jul 29
The Korean republic . (Seoul: Korean Information Service, 1953-1963) 13244021
box 4
The Korean republic (Seoul)
1953:Aug 15-Dec 9
box 4
The Korean republic (Seoul)
1953:Dec 10-1954:Mar 31
box 5
The Korean republic (Seoul)
1954:Apr 1-Dec 17
box 6
The Korean republic (Seoul)
1955:Jan-Jun
Scope and Contents
Missing:Jan 22-23, May 20-25
box 6
The Korean republic (Seoul)
1955:Jul-Dec
box 7
The Korean republic (Seoul)
1956:Jan-Jun
box 7
The Korean republic (Seoul)
1956:Jul 2-Dec 31
box 8
The Korean republic (Seoul)
1957:Jan 1-Jun 29
box 8
The Korean republic (Seoul)
1957:Jul 1-Dec 31
Scope and Contents
Many issues missing
box 9
The Korean republic (Seoul)
1958:Jan-Jun
Scope and Contents
Many issues missing
box 10
The Korean republic (Seoul)
1958:Jul 1-1959:Feb 14
Scope and Contents
Many issues missing
box 12
The Korean republic (Seoul)
1959:Aug 16-Nov 14
Scope and Contents
Missing:Aug 16-18
box 11
The Korean republic (Seoul)
1959:Feb 16-Aug 14
Scope and Contents
Many issues missing
box 13
The Korean republic (Seoul)
1959:Nov 16-1960:Feb 15
Scope and Contents
Missing:1960:Jan 31
box 12
The Korean republic (Seoul)
1960:Feb 16-May 14
Scope and Contents
Missing:Mar 12-14
box 19
The Korean republic (Seoul)
1960:Jul 11-Dec 22
box 18
The Korean republic (Seoul)
1960:May 16-Jul 9
box 19
The Korean republic (Seoul)
1961:Jul 9-Dec 31
box 21
The Korean republic (Seoul)
1962:Aug 16-1963:Mar 31
Scope and Contents
Many issues missing
box 14
The Korean republic (Seoul)
1962:Jan 14-1963:Dec 25
Scope and Contents
Missing:1962:Jan 14 & 1963:Dec 25
box 20
The Korean republic (Seoul)
1962:Jan 1-Aug 15
box 22
The Korean republic (Seoul)
1963:Aug 1-1964:Jan 8
Scope and Contents
Missing:1963:Oct 31, Nov 1, 13, 30, Dec 11-13, 29
box 20
The Korean republic (Seoul)
1963:Mar 1-Jul 31
Scope and Contents
Missing:Mar 27-28, Apr 3-6, 16, May 10, Jun 21-23, 25-26, 28-30, July 2-6, 10-11
The Korean republic Sunday magazine. (Seoul: The Korean Republic, 1962-1964) 13244027
box 15
The Korean republic Sunday magazine (Seoul)
1962:Apr 15-1964:Jan 5
Scope and Contents
Some issues missing
The Korean republic weekly. (Seoul: Korean Information Service, 1964-1965) 411519
box 15
The Korean republic weekly (Seoul)
1964:Feb 5-1965:Jul 21
Scope and Contents
Some issues missing
The Pyongyang times. (Pyongyang: The Pyongyang Times, 1970, 1992, 1994-1996) 13244029
box 23
The Pyongyang times (Pyongyang)
1970:Apr 13-1972:Jun 24
box 16
The Pyongyang times (Pyongyang)
1992:Jan-Nov
box 16
The Pyongyang times (Pyongyang)
1994:Jan-Dec
box 17
The Pyongyang times (Pyongyang)
1995:Jan-Dec
box 17
The Pyongyang times (Pyongyang)
1996:Jan-Nov
The Seoul times. (Seoul: Min Wonsik, 1945-1946, 1948) 13256098
box 18
The Seoul times (Seoul)
1945:Sep 4-1946:Jul 1, 1948:Jan 7-Jul 31
Scope and Contents
Some issues missing
The Seoul University press. (Seoul, 1948) 13256108
box 17
The Seoul University press (Seoul)
1948:May 7, Jun 7, Nov 15
The union democrat. (Seoul, 1948-1949) 13244030
box 17
The union democrat (Seoul)
1948:Jul 21-1949:Apr 17
