Is the World’s First Newspaper…Korean?
The world's oldest known newspaper is Relation, which was first published in 1605. But a South Korean Buddhist monk may have found one that precedes it.
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Haebangchon’s Forgotten Past: A Stairway, A Shrine and The War Dead
There’s a nondescript stairway on the outskirts of ‘the hip Haebangchon.’ The steps once led to a Shinto shrine for 7,000 spirits of Japan’s war dead.