The newspaper was originally established as Hankyoreh Shinmun () on May 15, 1988 by ex-journalists from the Dong-a Ilbo and Chosun Ilbo.

Where the Hankyoreh has criticized the Bush administration's foreign policies on numerous occasions, it has tended to be favorable on the Obama administration's foreign policies on North Korea.

In terms of national affairs, Cheongwadae, Office of the President, studies on the editorial policies of South Korean newspapers have found that the " Hankyoreh Shinmun, which published its first issue early in the Roh Tae Woo administration, has shown little fluctuation from administration to administration.

Hankyoreh also runs a " Hankyoreh Foundation for Reunification and Culture " as a forum for advocacy of peace and reunification on the Korean peninsula.

In its business, Hankyoreh departed from established convention by relying more on sales, periodic private donation campaigns, and the sale of stock, rather than advertising from major corporations to sustain itself.

In 2009, Hankyoreh joined Amnesty International, the Broadcaster Producers Association of Korea, and other civic groups airing concern atypical behavior by prosecutors in the detention Korean TV channel MBC journalists and the attack on press freedom in South Korea.

Although there has been controversy over for distortions in MBC's reporting on US beef imports, acts of arresting journalists and continued persecution of the press has been a primary concern for the Hankyoreh and other international journalist organizations.

The Hankyoreh is a left-leaning newspaper.

The Hankyoreh (, literally The Korean Race, or One Nation ) is a daily newspaper in South Korea.

Hankyoreh was intended to provide an independent, left-leaning, and nationalist alternative to mainstream newspapers regarded as blindly pro-business, pro-American, and opposed to national reunification.

In 1988, The Hankyoreh became the first Korean newspaper to use horizontal writing, and after 1990, all other major newspapers followed suit.

Notwithstanding the newspaper's support for democracy, human rights, and free speech in South Korea, in June 2009, the Hankyoreh described the arrest and imprisonment of two US journalists in North Korea, condemned by Reporters Without Borders as a sham trial, as a " not entirely negative signal " of North Korea's openness to communicate.

The Hankyoreh has campaigned for higher standards of ethics in journalism since its founding and had initiated a campaign against journalists ' taking bribes, which had been customary in the industry in South Korea until the late 1990s.

Choi Jinbong, “ Cross-ownership helping the profit-seeking motives of commercial media ,” Hankyoreh Daily ( Korea ), August.

On the domestic front, Hankyoreh has been mischaracterized as opposed to big business, and has been cited as working to correct that image of being “ nationalist, anti-American and anti-corporate .” The Hankyoreh does not negate the philosophy of the free market economy, individual liberty and personal freedom, and has been critical of Korean big business and conglomerates that overwhelm the market, the Korean university entrance system, widening income disparities in Korean society, and the rapid opening and globalization of the Korean economy, while maintaining a generally favorable attitude towards organized labor, trade protectionism, and the redistribution of income.

Hankyoreh enjoys high popularity and prestige among graduates seeking employment, with over 8, 000 applicants applying for 33 positions as of 2006.

To underscore its patriotism and its break with tradition, the Hankyoreh became the first daily to completely reject the use of hanja and use only hangul ; it continues to make only limited use of the Latin alphabet and limits the use loanwords.

Loach opposes censorship in cinema and was outraged at the " 18 " certificate given to Sweet Sixteen.

The Libertarian Party supports the legalization of drugs, pornography, prostitution, gambling, removal of restrictions on homosexuality, opposes any kind of censorship and supports freedom of speech, and supports the right to keep and bear arms.

* Campaign Against Censorship, a UK pressure group that opposes censorship

PEN declares for a free press and opposes arbitrary censorship in time of peace.

In A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, Henry W. Fowler ’ s general approach encourages a direct, vigorous writing style, and opposes all artificiality, by firmly advising against convoluted sentence construction, the use of foreign words and phrases, and the use of archaisms.

Lewis considers himself pro-life, opposes most public funding of abortions, but encourages family planning efforts which are opposed by many Catholics.

Nevertheless, he encourages young students to remain in the Yeshivas rather than be drafted into the military, because " despite the sensitivity which Rabbi Yosef feels towards the Israel Defense Forces he is deeply rooted in the Rabbinic tradition of the Yeshivas in the Land of Israel, and holds their position which opposes the integration of Yeshiva students in the military.

The Christian right also opposes euthanasia, and, in one highly publicised case, took an active role in seeking governmental intervention to prevent Terri Schiavo from being deprived of nutrition and hydration.

* A points where the decision can be made without debate ( but it has to be put off the agenda of this meeting if any national delegation opposes it being decided ) and is often on a subject outside the detailed responsibility of the particular group of ministers ;

The Alliance for the Separation of School & State opposes education vouchers on the grounds that " if vouchers become commonplace, private and religious schools will become more and more like public schools.

He also opposes the US Department of Education and Council on Higher Education Accreditation, claiming it is a cartel and the group has, in part, caused higher education to " become uniformly secular, liberal, and mediocre: raising the cost of entry.

It opposes laws that restrict consensual and private sexual relationships between adults ( e. g., gay sex, non-marital sex, and deviant sex ), laws that restrict drug use, laws that impose religious views or practices on individuals, and compulsory military service.

"... Emerson opposes on principle the reliance on social structures ( civil, religious ) precisely because through them the individual approaches the divine second hand, mediated by the once original experience of a genius from another age: " An institution ," as he explains, " is the lengthened shadow of one man.

Today Russia, along with China, still opposes the imposition of sanctions on Burma and supports a policy of dialogue.

If the state opposes, the parts of the treaty affected by the reservation drop out completely and no longer create any legal obligations on the reserving and accepting state, again only as concerns each other.

The outward direction of the arrows on the right and left indicates that where the Moon is overhead ( or at the nadir ) its perturbing force opposes and weakens the Earth's net attraction ; and the inward direction of the arrows at top and bottom indicates that where the Moon is 90 degrees away from overhead, its perturbing effect reinforces and strengthens the Earth's net attraction.

The party opposes illegal immigration and also seeks stricter controls on legal immigration.

Additionally, it opposes welfare subsidies and other taxpayer-supported benefits to illegal immigrants, rejecting also the practice of bestowing U. S. citizenship on children born to illegal immigrant parents while in this country ( jus soli ).

The United Methodist Church opposes gambling, believing that it is a sin which feeds on human greed and which invites people to place their trust in possessions, rather than in God, whom Christians should " love ... with all your heart.

Italy initially opposes Germany's aims on Austria but the two countries resolve their differences in 1936 in the aftermath of Italy's diplomatic isolation following the start of the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.

ATTAC also opposes General Agreement on Trade in Services.

The psychiatric survivors movement opposes compulsory treatment on the basis that the ordered drugs often have serious or unpleasant side-effects such as tardive dyskinesia, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, excessive weight gain leading to diabetes, addiction, sexual side effects, and increased risk of suicide.

* Philosophical communitarianism considers classical liberalism to be ontologically and epistemologically incoherent, and opposes it on those grounds.

However, the view that selection on other levels, such as organisms and populations, seldom opposes selection on genes is more controversial.

PETA opposes animal testing — whether toxicity testing, basic or applied research, or for education and training — on both moral and practical grounds.

In particular, the Christian right opposes therapeutic and reproductive human cloning, championing a 2005 United Nations ban on the practice, and human embryonic stem cell research, which involves the destruction of human embryos.

Adverse yaw is effectively compensated by the use of the rudder, which results in a sideforce on the vertical tail that opposes the adverse yaw by creating a favorable yawing moment.

Later on, he tries again to persuade the Trojans to stay inside the city in order to raise troop morale, but it is Aeneas that opposes his opinion this time, on the grounds that the Greeks will not be disheartened by a long stay inside the walls.

The Salvation Army offers its services to all who are in need, regardless of sexual orientation, and opposes the abuse of people based on sexual orientation.

Emblematic of these tensions is the work of José Bové, who founded in 1987, the Confédération Paysanne, an agricultural union that places its highest political values on humans and the environment, promotes organic farming and opposes genetically modified organisms ; Bové's most famous protest was the dismantling of a McDonald's franchise in Millau ( Aveyron ), in 1999.