JoongAng Ilbo

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Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet

Owner	Song Pil-ho
Publisher	Kwon Young-bin
Founded	September 22, 1965
Headquarters	Seoul, South Korea

Website: www.joins.com

JoongAng Ilbo
Hangul:	중앙일보
Hanja:	中央日報
Revised Romanization:	Jung(-)ang Ilbo
McCune-Reischauer:	Chung'ang Ilbo

JoongAng Ilbo is a newspaper published in Seoul, Korea. It is one of the "big three newspapers" in Korea. It boasts a circulation of 1.96 million copies in Korea (as of 2004). Its average page count per copy is around 52. The paper also publishes an English edition, The JoongAng Daily, in alliance with the International Herald Tribune.

1 History
2 Worldwide
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] History

First published in September 22, 1965 by Lee Byung-chul, the founder of Samsung Group. Once it owned Tongyang Broadcasting Company (TBC), which was also one of Samsung company. In 1980, JoongAng Ilbo gave up TBC and TBC merged with KBS. JoongAng Ilbo pioneered the use in Korea of horizontal copy layout, topical sections, and specialist reporters with investigative reporting teams. Since April 15, 1995, JoongAng Ilbo has been laid out horizontally. At that time it also became a morning newspaper.

As of March 18, 2007, it has produced a Sunday version.

[edit] Worldwide

It has a United States edition, with branches from Toronto to Buenos Aires. Its parent company, JMnet(JoongAng Media Network) holds publication rights to Newsweek Korea and Forbes Korea.