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</style><table class="infobox hproduct"><caption class="infobox-title fn">Monthly Chosun</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Editor</th><td class="infobox-data">Bae Jin-yeong<a href="#cite_note-Bae_2021-1">[1]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Frequency</th><td class="infobox-data">Monthly</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Format</th><td class="infobox-data">Digital, print</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">First issue</th><td class="infobox-data">April 1980</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Company</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">

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<ul><li>Chosun News Press (2010–)</li>

<li>The Monthly Chosun Company (2001–2009)</li>

<li><a href="The_Chosun_Ilbo" title="The Chosun Ilbo">The Chosun Ilbo Company</a> (1980–2001)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">South Korea</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Korean_language" title="Korean language">Korean language</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://monthly.chosun.com/">https://monthly.chosun.com/</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:1228-2197">1228-2197</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

<table class="infobox" style="width: 22em"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-size: 125%; color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de;">Monthly Chosun</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="Hangul" title="Hangul">Hangul</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display: inline; font-size: 1rem;">월간조선</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="Hanja" title="Hanja">Hanja</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display: inline; font-size: 1rem;">月刊朝鮮</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="Revised_Romanization_of_Korean" title="Revised Romanization of Korean">Revised Romanization</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Wolgan Joseon</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="McCune%E2%80%93Reischauer" title="McCune–Reischauer">McCune–Reischauer</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Wŏlgan Chosŏn</td></tr></tbody></table>

The Monthly Chosun (<a href="Korean_language" title="Korean language">Korean</a>: 월간조선; <a href="Hanja" title="Hanja">Hanja</a>: 月刊朝鮮) is a monthly <a href="Korean_language" title="Korean language">Korean</a>-language magazine published in South Korea.

As of 2023, it is owned by Chosun News Press, which in turn is owned by ChosunMedia. ChosunMedia also owns the <a href="The_Chosun_Ilbo" title="The Chosun Ilbo">Chosun Ilbo</a> newspaper.<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Description">Description</h2></div>

It primarily publishes on topics relating to current events, <a href="Politics" title="Politics">politics</a>, <a href="Economics" title="Economics">economics</a>, <a href="History" title="History">history</a>, and <a href="Culture" title="Culture">culture</a>. Each month, it publishes multiple articles on a selected theme.<a href="#cite_note-Encyclopedia_Monthly_Chosun-3">[3]</a> The magazine has been known since the late 1980s for its investigative journalism on major political scandals in South Korea.<a href="#cite_note-Bae_2021-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-Bae_2010-4">[4]</a> While the magazine primarily focuses on South Korean issues, it also publishes on international issues. For example, it published an interview with a member of the <a href="Islamic_State" title="Islamic State">Islamic State</a> in 2015.<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a>

The magazine is frequently cited in academic publications in South Korea, and has a reputation for being rigorous in its research. It has a target audience of 30 to 40 year-olds who are interested in academic-quality publications.<a href="#cite_note-Encyclopedia_Monthly_Chosun-3">[3]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sedae">Sedae</h3></div>

The magazine was first published in June 1963 as Sedae (세대; 世代; <abbr title="literal translation">lit.</abbr> Generation). Its first editor-in-chief was Oh Jong-sik, although the position changed hands a number of times. The magazine contained 350 pages of <a href="ISO_216" title="ISO 216">A5 size</a> paper. It compiled essays from various writers on topics relating to South Korean current issues. It had a reputation of being a mostly academic publication, although the magazine's stated target audience was people in their 20s.<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Acquisition_by_the_Chosun_Ilbo_Company">Acquisition by the Chosun Ilbo Company</h3></div>

<a href="The_Chosun_Ilbo" title="The Chosun Ilbo">Chosun Ilbo Company</a> had wanted to publish a monthly magazine for some time, and decided to acquire Sedae to do so. They then renamed the magazine to the Monthly Chosun.<a href="#cite_note-Encyclopedia_Monthly_Chosun-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-Bae_2021-1">[1]</a>

The first issue of the Monthly Chosun was published in April 1980.<a href="#cite_note-Bae_2021-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-Encyclopedia_Monthly_Chosun-3">[3]</a> The issue uses vertical type and features a guest essay by <a href="Ho_Chong" title="Ho Chong">Ho Jong</a>, the 6th <a href="Prime_Minister_of_South_Korea" title="Prime Minister of South Korea">prime minister of South Korea</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Encyclopedia_Monthly_Chosun-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-Bae_2021-1">[1]</a> After the acquisition, the staff made an effort to change the magazine's reputation of being a stiff academic publication to that of a current events publication with more general appeal.<a href="#cite_note-Bae_2021-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-Encyclopedia_Monthly_Chosun-3">[3]</a> To this end, beginning in April 1981, they made an effort to include more color and black-and-white images in the magazine.<a href="#cite_note-Encyclopedia_Monthly_Chosun-3">[3]</a> Beginning in 1982, reporters like <a href="Cho_Gab-je" title="Cho Gab-je">Cho Gab-je</a> and Oh Hyo-jin produced investigative reports on South Korean government scandals.<a href="#cite_note-Bae_2021-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-Lee_2004-7">[7]</a> Beginning with the magazine's third anniversary in April 1983, the editors began using <a href="Typesetting#Digital_era" title="Typesetting">computerized typesetting</a>. This reduced the time it took to produce the magazine, and contributed to its ability to include more recent stories in each issue.<a href="#cite_note-Encyclopedia_Monthly_Chosun-3">[3]</a>

The above changes led to a massive increase in popularity for the magazine. An article on the <a href="Kidnapping_of_Kim_Dae-jung" title="Kidnapping of Kim Dae-jung">Kim Dae-jung kidnapping scandal</a> from their October 1987 edition was printed over 405,000 times. The magazine became the first to publish the contents of a phone call that led to the arrests of former Presidents <a href="Chun_Doo-hwan" title="Chun Doo-hwan">Chun Doo-hwan</a> and <a href="Roh_Tae-woo" title="Roh Tae-woo">Roh Tae-woo</a> in the aftermath of the <a href="Coup_d'%C3%A9tat_of_December_Twelfth" class="mw-redirect" title="Coup d'état of December Twelfth">Coup d'état of December Twelfth</a>. Bae Jin-yeong (배진영), current editor-in-chief of the magazine, alleged in 2021 that the magazine's publications during the late 1990s and early 2000s influenced government policies of the United States, South Korea, and Japan towards North Korea.<a href="#cite_note-Bae_2021-1">[1]</a>

Until the late 1980s, most newspapers and magazines in South Korea used <a href="Horizontal_and_vertical_writing_in_East_Asian_scripts" title="Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts">vertical writing</a>. However, after the publication of <a href="The_Hankyoreh" title="The Hankyoreh">The Hankyoreh</a> in 1988, which only used horizontal type, most newspapers changed to horizontal.<a href="#cite_note-Encyclopedia_Hankyoreh-8">[8]</a> The Monthly Chosun resisted this trend until it finally switched in April 1999.<a href="#cite_note-Encyclopedia_Monthly_Chosun-3">[3]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Recent_history">Recent history</h3></div>

In 2004, Cho Gab-je stepped down as editor-in-chief but maintained his role of president of the company. His replacement was Kim Yeon-gwang (김연광; 金演光). The reception to Kim's ascension was lukewarm; it was seen as relatively sudden and surprising, as Kim was in a relatively junior position at the time. Cho and Kim released statements saying that they had prepared for the transition for some time, and that the style of the magazine would not change significantly.<a href="#cite_note-Lee_2004-7">[7]</a>

In 2021, it published its 500th edition.<a href="#cite_note-Bae_2021-1">[1]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Controversies">Controversies</h2></div>

The magazine has been characterized as <a href="Conservatism_in_South_Korea" title="Conservatism in South Korea">right-wing</a> and <a href="Anti-communism" title="Anti-communism">anti-communist</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Encyclopedia_Monthly_Chosun-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-Bae_2021-1">[1]</a>

In 2005, Kim and reporter for MBC Lee Sang-ho were sued by <a href="Samsung" title="Samsung">Samsung</a> as part of the "<a href="X-file_scandal" title="X-file scandal">X-file Scandal</a>". Both journalists had published extensively about bribes Samsung had engaged in around the 1997 South Korean presidential election. The courts ruled against Kim and Lee because their evidence of Samsung's bribes were acquired via illegal wiretapping.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKim2016172-9">[9]</a>

On June 2, 2009, prosecutors summoned Lee Sang-cheol (이상철; 李相哲), former managing editor (2004–2005) and president of the Monthly Chosun (2005–2009) and then <a href="Seoul_Metropolitan_Government" title="Seoul Metropolitan Government">Vice Mayor of Seoul</a>, for questioning. Lee was accused of accepting bribes of tens of millions of <a href="South_Korean_won" title="South Korean won">won</a> between 2006 and 2007 to quash the publication of articles on a scandal relating to businessman Park Yeon-cha and President <a href="Roh_Moo-hyun" title="Roh Moo-hyun">Roh Moo-hyun</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Kim_2009-10">[10]</a><a href="#cite_note-Bae_2010-4">[4]</a> The investigation ceased after Roh's suicide on May 23, 2009.<a href="#cite_note-Bae_2010-4">[4]</a>

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</style><cite id="CITEREFBae2021" class="citation cs2 cs1-prop-script cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Bae, Jin-yeong (November 2021), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://monthly.chosun.com/client/news/viw.asp?ctcd=J&nNewsNumb=202111100001"><bdi lang="ko">'역사를 기록하고 역사를 만들어온' 41년 8개월</bdi></a> [41 Years and 8 Months of 'Recording and Making History'], Monthly Chosun (in Korean), retrieved June 28, 2023</cite>

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<li id="cite_note-5"><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a> <cite id="CITEREFKim2015" class="citation cs2 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Kim, Dong-yeon (March 2015), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://monthly.chosun.com/client/news/viw.asp?nNewsNumb=201503100009">"IS 조직원, "돈 주면 김군 행방 알려줄 수 있어""</a> [Islamic State Member: "I Can Tell You Where to Find Kim if You Pay Me"], Monthly Chosun (in Korean), retrieved June 28, 2023</cite>

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<li id="cite_note-Encyclopedia_Hankyoreh-8"><a href="#cite_ref-Encyclopedia_Hankyoreh_8-0">^</a> <cite class="citation cs2 cs1-prop-script cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://encykorea.aks.ac.kr/Article/E0060968"><bdi lang="ko">한겨레</bdi></a> [The Hankyoreh], <a href="Encyclopedia_of_Korean_Culture" title="Encyclopedia of Korean Culture">Encyclopedia of Korean Culture</a> (in Korean), retrieved June 28, 2023</cite>

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<li id="cite_note-Kim_2009-10"><a href="#cite_ref-Kim_2009_10-0">^</a> <cite id="CITEREFKim2009" class="citation cs2">Kim, Rahn (June 3, 2009), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2020/08/113_46194.html">"Ex-Monthly Chosun Publisher Summoned Over Bribery"</a>, <a href="The_Korea_Times" title="The Korea Times">The Korea Times</a>, retrieved June 28, 2023</cite>

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<ul><li><cite id="CITEREFKim2016" class="citation cs2">Kim, Chunhyo (February 26, 2016), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=GdWjCwAAQBAJ&q=%22monthly+chosun%22">Samsung, Media Empire and Family: A power web</a>, Routledge, <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-1-317-36292-0</bdi>, retrieved June 28, 2023</cite></li></ul>

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