The Seoul Press was an English-language newspaper published in the Korean Empire and Korea under Japanese rule from 1905 to 1937.

The paper was founded in Seoul, Korean Empire by the British journalist John Weekley Hodge on 3 June 1905, as a weekly newspaper.

[2][a] The paper was closely linked to The Japan Times throughout its history,[2][1][6] with The Seoul Press reportedly even being seen as a branch office of the former.

[1] Zumoto departed from the paper in early April 1909 in order to move to New York City, United States.

[12] The following day, The Seoul Press published another editorial entitled "Korea's Friends" that singled out and criticized Bethell and Hulbert for their support of the movement.

[13][10] According to the historian Mark E. Caprio, articles relating to events in colonial Korea were sometimes reported differently in The Seoul Press and The Japan Times, but that the reportage in both coincided in depicting the "positive atmosphere that the Japanese... strove to convey to Westerners".

It reprinted reports written by Westerners that criticized Korean culture and civilization, and promoted Japan's colonization.

One such article was written by J. H. De Forest, who had spent one month visiting Korea and lived for 36 years in Japan.