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Top sports media in South Korea

The outlets that cover sport in South Korea — the sports press, the broadcasters, the agencies and the specialist titles.
✓ Last reviewed: September 2026

These are the outlets that cover sport in South Korea — the sports press, the broadcasters that hold or have held rights, the national news agency where it carries sport, and the specialist titles of national standing. Single-sport titles without national standing are not listed here; they appear on the media list for their own sport.

How this list is ordered. By role and national standing — the sports press first, then the broadcasters that hold or have held rights, then the national news agency and the specialist titles. That order is set once and stays put, so a page that has been cited does not rearrange itself later. The Tranco figure against each outlet is shown for reference and does not set the order. Tranco is a research ranking of web domains that averages the Chrome User Experience Report, Cloudflare Radar, Majestic, Cisco Umbrella and Farsight over the preceding 30 days, on the list of September 2026. It ranks a whole domain, not a sports desk. A general daily's rank counts every reader it has, most of whom did not come for sport, so a national newspaper will sit above a dedicated sports title that has more sports readers than it does.

1. Yonhap News AgencyNews agency · News agency · Tranco 5,460 — 연합뉴스 — the agency Article 10 of the Act on the Promotion of News Agencies designates as 국가기간뉴스통신사, established in December 1980 under the government's press consolidation policy as the Constitutional Court's 2005 decision records it. 2. Korean Broadcasting SystemBroadcaster · Television · Tranco 13,766 — 한국방송공사 — the corporation Article 43 of the Broadcasting Act establishes as 국가기간방송, measured at a 20.862 per cent viewing share for 2024 and a joint broadcaster of the 2026 FIFA World Cup alongside JTBC. 3. JTBCBroadcaster · Television · Tranco 42,676 — Seoul general programming channel selected as a 종합편성채널 operator on 31 December 2010, holder of the IOC's Korean broadcast rights for the Olympic Games from 2026 to 2032, and joint broadcaster of the 2026 FIFA World Cup with KBS. 4. SPOTV NEWSSpecialist title · News site · Tranco 142,339 — Seoul sports news site published by ㈜뉴스플레이어, registered as 서울 아 03377 on 24 October 2014, covering the KBO League, the K League, European football, basketball, volleyball, golf, combat sports and esports. 5. Sports SeoulGeneral sports coverage · Newspaper · Tranco 112,678 — 스포츠서울 — a Seoul sports title registered as internet newspaper 서울 아03134 on 30 April 2014 and listed as one of five sports titles in the Korea Press Foundation's register of participating media as at September 2025.