Korean Job Discussion Forums

[togoastray]

Just interested if people have a preference between the two and why. Whenever I'm at a newsstand I always spend a few minutes deciding which one to get and would like some input to base that decision on.

[mehamrick]

If you have the option I would just read them online for free..

[Privateer]

Better yet read the International Herald Tribune and save some valuable minutes of your life.

[Demophobe]

My puppy seems to show no bias.

[Privateer]

Trust the instincts of Demophobe's puppy.

[mindmetoo]

KH runs its weekend preview on Saturday. KT runs its weekend preview on Friday. KH's movie listings is a bit more complete. KT has Doonesbury. KH has Dilbert. KH is a bit more conservative. KT is a bit more liberal. KH is trying to be the Financial Times with the pink paper. KT doesn't pretend. KH has that bulletin board where you can find Korean women looking to meet foreigners and find exotic job offers. KT has a nice LA Times insert on Saturday and there's always something good to read. I think the KT runs that Russian guy's column where he writes about the history of Korea (he always ends it with "but that's another story" or something like that). That tends to be interesting. KT runs the TV listings for OCN and Super Action. KH only runs the TV listings for OCN. KT carries the advice column from the dead woman. KH carries some stupid Annie's Mailbox. KT uses the title case in its headlines. KH uses sentence case (caps just the first letter) in its headlines. I don't like the title case for newspaper headlines. KT has two pages of Weekend Events listings. KH only has one page.

KH will always get interesting job ads looking for English editors/writers. KT sometimes gets those ads.

KT and KH both basically run the exact same wire copy for Korean news. They never write about local crime. Reading the KT/KH, one gets the sense that the only people who commit murder in Korea are French people. Korean women only get raped by GIs. Americans are the only ones who cause traffic accidents.

In sum, newspapers in Korea are exactly like grocery stores in Korea. You tend to have to patronize all of them to get what you need for the week.

[PEIGUY]

KT is a tad better because of the columnists that they have. Michael Breen and a Russian professor both write columns which I find interesting. I generally find more to read in the KT than I do in the KH. Both have bad reporting sometimes but you get what you pay for..

[jinju]

International Herald Tribune. World class paper while KT and KH are amateurish rags at best.

if I cant buy it I read the KT but thats rare since, as I said, its an amateurish rag. I mean its top story on page 1 one day was about VANK changing the world. I wished then I could have bought the IHT. Plus, the IHT has the Joongang Ilbo insert which is better than the KH or KT.

[mehamrick]

KT because you can read such wonderful articles like this..

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200702/kt2007021418364210160.htm

[jinju]

[dutchy pink]

KT is awful. If you're only interested in car manufacturing then the KT is heaven. The Herald is top-notch. I just got back from Osaka and read it on the flight. There was actually 2 hours worth of reading in there compared to the 4 seconds of the KT. I somehow got bumped up to 1st class on the flight, so between champagne, grilled salmon and foot massages, I read the Herald. Having the Korean Times would have ruined the whole flight

[jinju]

[ilovebdt]

[mindmetoo]

[Wangja]

Or best of all, read the Financial Times: the jouranlistic equivalent of joined-up writing.