The site's motto is "Every Citizen is a Reporter", which reflects its status as the first news website in Korea to accept, edit, and publish articles from its readers in an open source-style.

The site strongly criticizes and opposes anti-Japanese and anti-Chinese sentiment that is expressed as racism rather than anti-imperialism.

OhmyNews International is an English language online newspaper that features "citizen reporter" articles written by contributors from all over the globe.

On 22 February 2006, OhmyNews and Japanese firm Softbank signed an investment contract valued at US$11 million.

These journalists' articles were the object of much criticism;[citation needed] on 17 November 2006, the newspaper ended the citizen-participation aspect of the paper.

[11] In July 2008, all staff of OhmyNews Japan were dismissed, and by the end of August operations had ceased on the site.

"[13] During the declaration of martial law in 2024, an OhmyNews live stream captured Democratic Party deputy spokesperson Ahn Gwi-ryeong confronting a soldier with a rifle, which was seen by millions on X (formerly twitter).

[18] On 8 July 2009, Oh Yeon-ho revealed that OhmyNews was losing up to 700 million won yearly, and appealed to website users to join a voluntary subscription scheme.