Press activities by the first group of Japanese reporters in Korea in 1960

When Japanese correspondents entered Korea in 1960, Korea and Japan, the two countries were still distant, unfamiliar, and blank slates, especially in terms of human exchanges. In such a situation, Japanese correspondents who came to Korea for the first time had a unique status as transmitters of information to both Korea and Japan and mediators in the relationship between the two countries. Therefore, analyzing the backgrounds of those who came to Korea and their reporting activities can help provide a new and broader understanding of Korea-Japan relations in the 1960s from a media and social perspective. With this in mind, this paper examined the main history and reporting activities of the first group of Japanese correspondents in Korea who entered the country with official visas issued by the Korean government for the first time after the April Revolution in 1960.