Chōsen Jihō (Japanese: 朝鮮時報, Korean: 조선시보; MR: Chosŏn Sibo) was a Japanese-language and Korean-language daily newspaper published in Korea from 1894 to 1941.
After several fires and a 1940 order by the Japanese colonial government for there to be one paper per province, it was absorbed into the Fuzan Nippō.
The Fuzan Nippō was then seized by the United States after the 1945 liberation of Korea, and was converted into the modern South Korean Busan Ilbo.
[3] However, it went under a hiatus, possibly due to management difficulties[2] or Japanese press restrictions during the First Sino-Japanese War.
[4] Japanese consul in Murota Yoshiaya [ja] paid 400 won for the acquisition of the paper, and assigned journalist Adachi Kenzō to take over its operations.
[5][6] Adachi moved to work in Seoul, and was again provided support to found his own newspaper, Kanjō Shinpō.
[7] The South Korean scholar Park Yong-gu (박용구) argued that the Japanese government wanted to forward its expansion into Korea around this time with Adachi's papers.
[1][3] Around that time, the Governor-General of Chōsen mandated that regional newspapers consolidate, so the company was merged into the Fuzan Nippō on May 27, 1941.
Over time, it followed a typical pattern (according to a writer for the Korean Newspaper Archive) of publications beginning specialized in business, then transitioning to general reporting on current events.