the three major dailies (the Chosun Ilbo, JoongAng Ilbo, and Dong-a Ilbo), though still ahead of specialist economic dailies. It is the fourth largest newspaper in Korea. Hankyoreh's editorial content consists of strident criticism of the three major newspapers. It has also endorsed boycott campaigns of companies that advertise in its competitors. In 2009, Hankyoreh joined Amnesty International, the Broadcaster Producers Association of Korea, and other civic groups airing concern atypical behavior by prosecutors in the detention Korean TV channel MBC journalists and the attack on press freedom in South Korea. Although there has been controversy over for distortions in MBC's reporting on US beef imports, acts of arresting journalists and continued persecution of the press has been a primary concern for the Hankyoreh and other international journalist organizations. Climate and environmental stances In April 2020, the Hankyoreh became the first mainstream paper in Korea to establish a newsroom team dedicated to climate change. The climate section is called "ClimateChange&" and covers topics such as nuclear power, environmental and ecological destruction, endangered and at-risk species, and green pledges. The paper has been critical of nuclear power for safety concerns, and has published multiple editorials condemning Japan for its plans to release treated water from the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe into the ocean. The paper's series "Climate Crisis and Human Rights" earned it the Journalists Association of Korea and National Human Rights Commission of Korea's 11th annual "Human Rights Reporting Prize" in 2022, with the selection committee stating it had "highly appraised the series' on-the-ground coverage of lives uprooted by climate change, which shows that the climate crisis is ultimately an issue of inequality and justice, and its ability to unravel the climate crisis from the perspective of human rights." Other In 2014, it partnered with a comic artists union, Toonion, to create a global creative content company called RollingStory, which launched an online sharing platform, Spottoon, for South Korean digital comics in 2015. Hankyoreh Media Group Cine 21 HuffPost Korea (joint venture with HuffPost News, a division of BuzzFeed) Hankyoreh Education Hankyoreh Book Publishing (HaniBook) Modoo Media Modoo Communications News Bang See also Media of South Korea Liberalism in South Korea List of newspapers in South Korea Culture of South Korea Democratic Party of Korea Justice Party (South Korea) Korean nationalism 386 Generation Gangnam leftist References External links About The Hankyoreh International edition (web only) Homepage of Cine21, film weekly by