# The Voice of America advertises its Korean service, May 1953

A Korean-language photo sheet filed with U.S. Information Agency posters for Asia, catalog date 5 May 1953. Nine photographs follow the Voice of America's Korean service, from a reporter recording Thai troops at the front to a family at a USIS-marked radio, with daily broadcast times below (NAID 5730148).

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      Voice of America Sends News to Korea: 한국에의 「미국의소리」뉴-쓰 (Korean poster distributed in Korea)

      The Voice of America advertises its Korean service, May 1953
      A 1953 Korean photo sheet on the Voice of America's Korean service: a front-line reporter, script editors, UN delegates, a family at the radio. NAID

## Techniques named on the archive record

TransferName-calling
      DateMay 5, 1953Made byU.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia seriesMediumPosterCountryUnited StatesRegimeEisenhower AdministrationNARANAID 5730148; Record Group 306SourceIdentified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they areSourceU.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia , retrieved October 3, 2026SourcePublic domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306) U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, 5 May 1953. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5730148, 306-PPA-247).
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      Full record at propagandaarchive.org

  A Korean-language photo sheet filed with U.S. Information Agency posters for Asia, catalog date 5 May 1953. Nine photographs follow the Voice of America's Korean service, from a reporter recording Thai troops at the front to a family at a USIS-marked radio, with daily broadcast times below (NAID 5730148).

## A broadcaster describes itself

This sheet is an advertisement for a radio service, written in the service's own voice. Its headline names the Voice of America, and its nine photographs walk a Korean reader through how the news is made: a correspondent recording troops at the front, editors turning teletype copy into Korean scripts, on-air interviews, an announcer meeting Korean delegates at the United Nations, and a Korean family listening to a radio marked USIS. A schedule closes the sheet.

한국에의 「미국의소리」뉴-쓰

"미국의소리"방송은 46개국어로 방송되고있다 16개국이 공산주의침략자와 싸우고있는 한국에 대해서 세계의 이목이 집중된이래 그들은 한국에대하여 더욱 큰 관심을 갖이게되었다 [...]

"미국의소리"는 한국각지 중계방송국을 통하여 매일 하기 시간에 방송 되고있다.

오전 7:30-8:00 뉴-쓰·음악·시사특집.

[...]

제2·제4토요일 오후 8:30-9:00 자유극장.

Transcription in the FRAME record, read from the image and not independently checked. Full record at propagandaarchive.org. NAID 5730148, local id 306-PPA-247.

The archive's machine translation, not verified by a fluent reader, opens: "The Voice of America broadcasts in 46 languages. Since the attention of the world was concentrated on Korea, where 16 countries are fighting the Communist aggressors, they have taken a greater interest in Korea." The archive notes a stylised hand-lettered typeface and says some personal names are uncertain readings.

## Who issued it, and when

The maker line is the U.S. Information Agency, with the State Department's International Information and Educational Exchange Program as predecessor, in the series Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia. The catalog date is 5 May 1953, and FRAME files it under the Korean War and classes the source as identified: the broadcaster names itself in the headline, and the schedule credits the U.S. Information Service with programs carried on Korean stations.

## News with a side

FRAME tags transfer and name-calling. The transfer runs from soldiers and UN delegates to the broadcaster standing beside them. The name-calling is one phrase, the label "Communist aggressors" for the other side of the war.

A government radio that tells listeners when it is on the air, and says whose radio it is, is open about what it is. That is to its credit. The same sheet also shows that the news came from one side of a war, framed in that side's words. Listeners got a schedule and a point of view, and the sheet is candid about both.

The Korean War messaging hub places this sheet among the program's photo sheets for Korean readers. A 1951 poster for the Philippines, Everybody's Listening, advertised a Sunday Voice of America program in the same plain way.

## Sources

- FRAME object record, Voice of America Sends News to Korea (Korean poster distributed in Korea). U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program). Catalog date May 5, 1953.

- U.S. National Archives, Record Group 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, NAID 5730148, 306-PPA-247, catalog record, retrieved by the archive October 3, 2026. Rights as recorded: public domain (U.S. government work).

Canonical: https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/voice-of-america-news-to-korea-korean-1953/