Editing Yonhap News Agency (section)

==Journalists==
[[File:Yonhap News Agency Journalist plaque, 2014.jpg|thumb|Plaque at foot of Yonhap Journalist statue, 2014]]

Yonhap employs about 600 reporters. It has some 60 correspondents in 26 countries.<ref name=aboutus /> Yonhap is one of few Korean news organizations with a section specialized in North Korea reports. In 1998, Yonhap acquired from the [[National Intelligence Service (South Korea)|National Intelligence Service]] a news wire service monitoring North Korean media and analyzing North Korea–related information. Yonhap incorporated the firm and its staff into the newsroom, creating a special division (often referred to as the 'N.K. news desk') to improve its reporting on North Korea. In January 2009, two reporters from the N.K. news desk disclosed that [[Kim Jong Un]] had been chosen as heir apparent to North Korea's longtime leader, [[Kim Jong Il]]. Later, in 2010, the reporters won the grand journalism award for the exclusive story from the Korean Journalist Association. It was the first time in nine years that the association had awarded the prize.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.mediatoday.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=93994|title= 미디어오늘 9년만의 한국기자상 대상 연합뉴스 최선영 장용훈 |work=[[Media Today]]|access-date=February 6, 2012}}</ref>