Reader-Created Content: the ‘Reader and Reporter’ (Dokja wa gija) Features in the Donga ilbo, January–November 1925

Abstract This article examines the ‘Reader and Reporter’ (Dokja wa gija) section of the newspaper Donga ilbo , which first appeared on 1 January 1925. Readers could both submit articles on topics selected by reporters and suggest topics for reporters to write about. Over the course of its run, a total of thirty-one features were published, only five of which were written by readers. The ‘Reader and Reporter’ section provides a direct view of the interactions between reporters and readers that shaped the format and content of the newspaper. After an overview of the society desk and the society page of the newspaper, this article focuses on the most common type of feature requested by readers: personal profiles of well-known figures. They can be seen as efforts to counter two trends of the time: the forgetting of the 1919 March First Movement and the depoliticization of women.