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| Type | Daily Newspaper |
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| Format | Berliner |
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| Founder | Lee Byung-chul |
| Publisher | Chang-hee Park |
| Founded | September 22, 1965 |
| Political alignment | Conservatism[1][2][3] Moderate conservatism[4][5] Centre-right[8] toright-wing[11] |
| Country | South Korea |
| Website | www |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 중앙일보 |
| Hanja | 中央日報 |
| Lit. | Central Daily |
| RR | Jungang ilbo |
| MR | Chungang ilbo |
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The JoongAng, formerly known asJoongAng Ilbo (Korean: 중앙일보;lit. Central Daily), is a South Koreandaily newspaper published inSeoul,South Korea. It is one of the three biggest newspapers in South Korea, and anewspaper of record for South Korea. The paper also publishes an English edition,Korea JoongAng Daily, in alliance with theInternational New York Times.[12] It is often regarded as the holding company of JoongAng Groupchaebol (a spin-off fromSamsung) as it is owner of various affiliates, such as the broadcast station and drama producing companyJTBC, and movie theatres chainMegabox.
It was first published on September 22, 1965, byLee Byung-chul, the founder ofSamsung Group which once owned theTongyang Broadcasting Company (TBC).[13] In 1980,JoongAng Ilbo gave up TBC and TBC merged with KBS.JoongAng Ilbo is the pioneer in South Korea for the use of horizontal copy layout, topical sections, and specialist reporters with investigative reporting teams. Since April 15, 1995,JoongAng Ilbo has been laid out horizontally and also became a morning newspaper from then on. In 1999,JoongAng Ilbo was separated from Samsung.[14] As of March 18, 2007, it has produced a Sunday edition calledJoongAng Sunday.
The paper is considered anewspaper of record in Korea.[15]
TheKorea JoongAng Daily is theEnglish language version of the newspaper, and it is one of three English-language daily newspapers in South Korea, along withThe Korea Times andThe Korea Herald.[16] It runs mainly news and feature stories by staff reporters, and some stories translated from theKorean language newspaper. TheKorea JoongAng Daily is currently sold together with theInternational New York Times.
JoongAng Ilbo also publishes aUnited States edition, with branches fromToronto toBuenos Aires. Its parent company, Joongang Media Network (JMNet) holds publication rights to Korean editions ofNewsweek andForbes as well as 25% of the shares ofJTBC cable TV.
JoongAng Ilbo is considered by some critics as part ofChojoongdong (CJD;조중동), a pejorative term that refers to the three highly circulated conservativenewspapers inSouth Korea includingJoongAng Ilbo. The word is an acronym of theChosun,Joong-ang andDong-a Ilbo newspapers, and the grouping is seen as forming the basis of South Korea's conservative media.[17] The term was used byHankyoreh editor Jung Yeonju (정연주) as early as October 2000.[18]Korean liberals criticize Chojoongdong primarily because of theirconservative-biased editorial stances and doing business in a collusive and surreptitious manner. As of 2010,[update] the market share ofChosun,Joong-ang andDong-a Ilbo is 24.3%, 21.8%, and 18.3%, respectively.[19]
... We analyzed three of the most widely-circulated newspapers representing the conservative perspective, Chosun Ilbo, JoongAng Ilbo, and DongA Ilbo, together referred to as "Cho-Jung-Dong."18 Two progressive newspapers, ...
... In particular, the biggest newspaper companies, the Chosun Ilbo, the Joongang Ilbo, and the Dong-A Ilbo, are very conservative. This conservative position functions as a very strong tool of creating propaganda when combined with ...
... Choi (2005) claimed that the ideology of authoritarianism and the Cold War system was repackaged and reproduced as conservative political ideology through conservative mass media, such as Chosun Ilbo, Dong-A Ilbo, and JoongAng Ilbo. ...
Joongang Ilbo is considered a more moderate conservative daily and also publishes its English edition, Korea Joongang Daily, in an alliance with the International New York Times. These big three Korean newspapers have significant influences on ...
The editorial boards of the center-right JoongAng Ilbo and right-leaning Chosun Ilbo newspapers were in staunch opposition.
"A pre-emptive strike could trigger a second Korean War," wrote Kim Young-hie, a columnist for the right-of-centre JoongAng Ilbo newspaper, on Thursday.
According to Kang Min-Seok and Lee Ka-Young of the right-wing JoongAng Ilbo newspaper — who publish an English edition in conjunction with theInternational Herald Tribune — numerous government memos were sent out in 2010 urging caution against potential malware hackers
... The right-wing JoongAng Ilbo compared it to "junk food" and concluded that: ...
The prominent "big three" publications — Chosun Ilbo, Dong-A Ilbo, and Joongang Ilbo — are newspapers of record with a combined three million subscribers.
