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This study aims to introduce information design cases in Modern Korean newspapers, which were the early stages of the process of sophisticated information design and various media strategies in modern newspapers, examine the situation at the time, and understand the historical context. The subjects of the study are newspapers until 1945, including the first newspaper, Hansung Sunbo, the Official Gazette, Minbo, and Dong-A Ilbo and Chosun Ilbo, which were founded in 1920 and produced by a rotary press. At that time, newspaper information design used various pictures and photographs to convey news, but information design that visualized information was rare, and even the Dong-A Ilbo, which was produced in a modern way by a rotary press, was produced in a simple way that seemed to have been hastily drawn with a pen or brush. Compared to the sophisticated information design in the Hansung Sunbo No. 12 of the Korean Empire, it shows a low-quality version, which was identified as a result of the insufficient production environment due to the short publication date, the speed of editing articles and information due to urgent social issues, the time required for the settlement process of the new medium, newspaper, and the focus on improving type and printing technology accordingly. The information design of coastal Korean newspapers has a low production frequency compared to the type and quantity of newspapers, but it has the expected effect of being utilized as a historical source and data that continues the tradition of active and specialized newspaper information design today.