SEOUL -- South Korea's leading Web portals have banned the nation's semiofficial news agency from their news sites after the service posted paid content as news.
Yonhap News Agency denounced Naver's and Daum's "unilateral" measures and asked a court to issue an injunction to invalidate them. But it is also exploring ways to wean itself from its dependence on Web portals, a difficult task in the connected age.
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