• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.127-140
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• 2003

This study attempts to summarize the progress of Journalistic Cartography and to investigate the quantitative growth and the transition of the forms and contents of the media maps in Korean newspapers. And this study examines the characteristics of media maps with the technological development. The results of this study are summarized as follows. First, 'Jigujeondo' in Hanseongsunbo in 1880s is the first media map in Korea. Secondly, the number of the media maps in Korean newspapers is influenced by the political and economic environments. As the time goes, the contents of the media maps have been raried. Thirdly, the representation of the media maps has their own special characteristics according to the technological developments from the handwriting to CTS.