JoongAng Ilbo is a 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, Korea JoongAng Daily, in alliance with the International Herald Tribune.
First published on September 22, 1965 by Lee Byung-chul, the founder of Samsung Group. Once it ...
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JoongAng Ilbo is a 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, Korea JoongAng Daily, in alliance with the International Herald Tribune.
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.
The Korea JoongAng Daily is the English language version of the newspaper, and it is one of three English-language daily newspapers in...
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