[1][3] A 1947 Japanese film, Go to Liberated Korea, contains some lost footage assumed to be from Haebang News, and was discovered in 2007.
On August 16, when news first reached the general public of Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule, members of the Chosŏn Film Company quickly broke into a storage building that contained cameras and went to record the jubilant celebrations outside.
A few weeks later, the United States Army Military Government in Korea (USAMGIK) began its occupation of the southern half of the peninsula.
[4] Episodes could only be aired after passing the censors of the USAMGIK, and are thus considered by recent scholars to follow the official opinions of the military government.
[1] Content from several of Haebang News's early episodes, which are now considered lost, was recompiled into a 1947 documentary film called Go to Liberated Korea (解放朝鮮を行く, 해방 조선을 가다).