Yonhap news agency is the 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 its 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 Associated Press, AFP, Xinhua, Kyodo, Itar Tass, and DPA.

Yonhap was the host news agency of the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics, and was elected twice to the board of OANA.

See also

• List of Korea-related topics

External links

• Official website in English
• Official website in Korean