JoongAng Ilbo

Front page (March 30, 2007)
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).^{[citation needed]} Its average page count per copy is around 52.^{[citation needed]} The paper also publishes an English edition, JoongAng Daily, in alliance with the International Herald Tribune.

Contents 1 History 2 Worldwide 3 Criticism 4 See also 5 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 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.

[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.

[edit] Criticism

[edit] See also

• List of newspapers
• Culture of South Korea
• List of Korea-related topics
• Cho-Joong-Dong, 조중동

[edit] External links

• JoongAng Daily
• (Korean) Joins.com

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