JoongAng Ilbo

JoongAng Ilbo or otherwise known as The Korea Daily

JoongAng Ilbo Building
Type Daily newspaper
Format Berliner
Owner JoongAng Media Network
Publisher Song Pil-ho
Founded September 22, 1965
Political alignment conservative, business friendly
Headquarters Sunhwa-dong, Jung-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Official website www.joins.com
Korean name
Hangul 중앙일보
Hanja 中央日報
Revised Romanization Jungangilbo
McCune–Reischauer Chungang-ilbo

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

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History

First published on 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 South 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 edition called JoongAng Sunday.

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.

Criticism

See also

Korea portal
Journalism portal

External links