The news priorities of international and South Korean media organizations are strikingly different at times. A case in point would be Monday of last week, when the UN released its damning report on human rights abuses in North Korea. On the BBC News Online’s world news front page, the UN report was the top story.

On the website of the South Korean news agency Yonhap, by contrast, the same report was in fifth position on the front page. For Yonhap the top two stories were the breaking news about a fatal building collapse in Kyongju and the terrorist attack in