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Yonhap News Agency is South Korea's largest news agency. It is a publicly funded company, based in Seoul, South Korea. Yonhap provides news articles, pictures and other information to newspapers, TV networks and other media in South Korea. ==History== Yonhap (meaning "united" in Korean) was established on December 19, 1980, through the merger of Hapdong News Agency and Orient Press. It maintains various agreements with 78 non-Korean news agencies, and also has a services-exchange agreement with North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) agency, signed in 2002. It is the only Korean wire service that works with foreign news agencies,〔Shrivastava, K. M. (2007). ''News Agencies from Pigeon to Internet''. Elgin, IL: Sterling Publishers. ISBN 978-1-932705-67-6.〕 and provides a limited, but freely available, selection of news on its website in Korean, English, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Arabic and French. Yonhap was the host news agency of the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics, and was elected twice to the board of the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA). Yonhap is South Korea's only news agency large enough to have more than 60 correspondents abroad and 580 reporters across the nation.〔 Its largest shareholder is the Korea News Agency Commission (KONAC). In 2003, the South Korean government passed a law giving financial and systematic assistance to the agency, to reinforce staff and provide equipment.〔 In the legislation, it was also been given the role of “promoting the country's image” to an international audience.〔 The head of the Yonhap agency is usually affiliated with the government, which critics say harms press freedom and has an impact on news-gathering. However. it is government affiliation, rather than press laws (which are supportive of press freedom), which is said to be the cause of any limitations,〔Sin, T.; Shin, D.C.; Rutkowski, C.P.; Pak, C. (2003). ''The Quality of Life in Korea: Comparative and Dynamic Perspectives''. London: Kluwer. ISBN 978-1-4020-0947-1.〕 though the agency does criticise the government.〔See e.g. ((2nd LD) "S. Korean lawmakers heap criticism on government's reversal in airstrip row" ). Yonhap. January 12, 2009.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yonhap」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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