Oh my blog

At 2:22 pm on 22 February 2007 an internet site that would radically influence the national agenda of Korea’s mainstream media. OhmyNews is a news website that “attracts more than 700,000 repeat visitors each day” and the record number of page visits in a single day was a mere 25 million. OhmyNews has not only attracted the interest of news consumers, by mid 2007 the website has encouraged more than 60,000 citizen reporters.



The approach the OhmyNews takes towards the websites news content is both professional and respectful. All citizen reporters must obey a code of ethics and all of the articles that appear on the site have been edited and factually checked. Thank goodness this is not a website that carelessly displays false information and calls it ‘news’. These factors probably account for the success of the website.

The concept of blogging seems harmless enough, but not when people are claiming that the information posted is both true an accurate. In this age when we are saturated with information we must strive to make sure the news keeps its interiority.

Source: Quinn, S. 2007, ‘OhmyNews in South Korea’ in Rampant Tigers, Konrad Adenaueur Foundation, Singapore.