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Source: JournalistLabs, October 2026.

Findings

• 21 of the 287 rows (7.3%) carry a work email in the CSV.
• The ten outlets with the most rows hold 68.3% of the list, led by KBS (46), 중앙일보 Joongang Ilbo (30) and The Korea Economic Daily (29).
• Reporters make up 56.8% of this list, against 36.1% of all 127,602 journalists on file.
• The beats named most: economics (30), foreign affairs (11), business (8).
• 42 rows (14.6%) carry a senior title: chief, executive, deputy or senior.

Source: JournalistLabs, October 2026.

Rows 9 to 30 of 287

Emails are masked here and complete in the CSV. Source: JournalistLabs, October 2026.

Source: JournalistLabs, October 2026

What the 287 rows hold

Rows in the list. Source: JournalistLabs, October 2026.

How the list was built

The list holds every journalist on file whose profile places them in South Korea, at any outlet.

We started from 295 rows. 8 were dropped because the job title names work outside reporting and editing: video, picture and sound editors, photographers and camera crews, assistants, interns, designers, social media and audience staff. 26 titles were cleaned of outlet names, dates and run-on text; the CSV keeps the original in the title_raw column.

A row is listed only when the name, the job title, the outlet and the country are all present. Work emails sit at the outlet's mail domain and were found before the list went on sale; the email_status column says whether the mail server confirmed the address (verified) or it follows the outlet's dominant address pattern on a server that accepts every address (pattern). Where neither applies the cell is blank, and the counts above say how many rows that is. The profiles were collected in July and August 2026. Method.

Questions

How many journalists in South Korea are on the list?

287 at 68 outlets in 1 country. By role: reporters 163, editors 83, correspondents 24, anchors and presenters 6.

Does the list include email addresses?

21 of the 287 rows (7.3%) have a work email at the outlet's mail domain: 20 confirmed by the mail server, 1 built from the outlet's dominant address pattern where the server accepts every address (marked in the email_status column). The other rows have a blank email cell. Nothing is added after the sale: the file you download is the file described here.

What is in each row?

Name, job title, the job title as the profile reads it (title_raw), outlet, country, role, seniority, beat, work email and email_status (verified or pattern). One CSV file that opens in Excel, Google Sheets or any CRM.

Which countries are covered?

South Korea 287.

Can I see the list before buying?

The first 30 rows are on this page. A 25-row sample with the full emails comes by email.

Which rows were removed?

8 rows whose job title names work outside reporting and editing: video and picture editors, photographers, camera crews, assistants, interns, designers, social media and audience staff.

How does it compare to Muck Rack or Cision?

Muck Rack, Cision and Meltwater sell annual subscriptions and do not publish prices; Semrush's AI PR Toolkit costs $149 to $499 a month (28 October 2026). This list is $29 once, no account, and the file is yours. Comparison of 10 media databases.

Which outlets in South Korea have the most journalists?

KBS (46), 중앙일보 Joongang Ilbo (30), The Korea Economic Daily (29), Jtbc (23), The New York Times (22), The Dong-A Ilbo 동아일보 (14).

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• Journalists at The New York Times 1,847
• Journalists at Bloomberg 1,635
• Journalists at Reuters 633
• Journalists at The Wall Street Journal (Dow Jones) 1,375
• Journalists at AFP 760
• Journalists at ABC News 564
• Journalists in the United States 61,457
• Journalists in the United Kingdom 10,567
• Journalists in India 6,135
• Journalists in Australia 3,744
• Journalists in Canada 2,711
• Journalists in Sweden 1,757

The newsroom count in South Korea

339 journalists are on file in South Korea, 0.3% of the 127,602 on file. 192 are reporters and 100 are editors.

Source: JournalistLabs

South Korea has 0.52 editors on file for every reporter. Across the whole file it is 54,548 editors to 46,013 reporters. Source: JournalistLabs.

Roles

Source: JournalistLabs.

Beats

130 of the 339 journalists on file in South Korea carry a beat word in their title or headline. The shares below are of those titled rows.

A share is printed only when the country's titled rows reach 40. Source: JournalistLabs.

Other countries

• United States 69,377
• United Kingdom 12,094
• India 7,656
• Australia 4,170
• Canada 3,026
• Sweden 1,879
• Germany 1,643
• South Africa 1,530
• Indonesia 1,520
• France 1,369
• Denmark 1,125
• Brazil 1,024
• Italy 907
• Singapore 787
• Spain 770
• Turkey 742
• Ireland 717
• Hong Kong 644
• Philippines 632
• Nigeria 605
• Pakistan 562
• Norway 550
• Belgium 536
• China 535
• Israel 530
• Egypt 525
• Netherlands 512
• Japan 506
• United Arab Emirates 503
• New Zealand 439
• Finland 408
• Mexico 406
• Bangladesh 395
• Slovenia 343
• Poland 323
• Kenya 289
• Argentina 279
• Russia 264
• Romania 263
• Portugal 236
• Lithuania 235
• Switzerland 223