Internet news in South Korea edging out print newspapers

The Taipei Times reports that rising use of Internet news is undermining the ad revenue of daily newspapers in South Korea. Sites like Naver.com, Yahoo! Korea and Daum.net are gaining popularity as primary news sources, particularly among young people, "who would not otherwise even try to read newspapers at all," wrote the Taipei Times.

Up until 2000, newspapers in South Korea were the "guardians of the country's pursuit of democracy in its fight against the military authoritarian regimes," according to the Taipei Times. Now, newspapers sell their articles to the major news Internet portals for a flat monthly fee and are "no longer on the frontline of moulding the right sense for participant democracy," according to Choi Young-jae, a Hallym University professor.