The JoongAng, formerly known as JoongAng Ilbo (lit.'Central Daily'), is a South Korean daily newspaper published in Seoul, South Korea. It is one of the three biggest newspapers in South Korea, and a newspaper of record for South Korea. The paper also publishes an English edition, Korea JoongAng Daily, in alliance with the International New York Times.[12] It is often regarded as the holding company of JoongAng Group chaebol (a spin-off from Samsung) as it is owner of various affiliates, such as the broadcast station and drama producing company JTBC, and movie theatres chain Megabox.
History
It was first published on September 22, 1965, by Lee Byung-chul, the founder of Samsung Group which once owned the Tongyang 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 called JoongAng Sunday.
JoongAng Ilbo also publishes a United States edition, with branches from Toronto to Buenos Aires. Its parent company, Joongang Media Network (JMNet) holds publication rights to Korean editions of Newsweek and Forbes as well as 25% of the shares of JTBC cable TV.
JoongAng Ilbo is considered by some critics as part of Chojoongdong (CJD; 조중동), a pejorative term that refers to the three highly circulated conservative newspapers in South Korea including JoongAng Ilbo. The word is an acronym of the Chosun, Joong-ang and Dong-a Ilbo newspapers, and the grouping is seen as forming the basis of South Korea's conservative media.[17] The term was used by Hankyoreh editor Jung Yeonju (정연주) as early as October 2000.[18]Korean liberals criticize Chojoongdong primarily because of their conservative-biased editorial stances and doing business in a collusive and surreptitious manner. As of 2010, the market share of Chosun, Joong-ang and Dong-a Ilbo is 24.3%, 21.8%, and 18.3%, respectively.[19]
^Hyung-Cheol Kang; Pil-Mo Jung; Seung-Sun Lee; Jung-Kun Pae; Seog-Tae Shim; June Woong Rhee; et al., eds. (2015). Understanding Journalism in Korea. CommunicationBooks. ISBN9781483375540. ... 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 ...
^Akihiro Ogawa, ed. (2017). Routledge Handbook of Civil Society in Asia. Routledge. ISBN9781498557580. ... 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. ...
^서울대 커리어 기자단과 함께하는 Career Story 2020. 서울대학교 경력개발센터. 2019. p. 183. ISBN9791187538134.
^"North Korea and mounting tensions: The view from Seoul". Al Jazeera. April 14, 2017. Retrieved February 13, 2021. "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.
^"South Korea's Power Structure Hacked, Digital Trail Leads to China". Fast Company. October 19, 2010. Retrieved February 15, 2023. According to Kang Min-Seok and Lee Ka-Young of the right-wing JoongAng Ilbo newspaper — who publish an English edition in conjunction with the International Herald Tribune — numerous government memos were sent out in 2010 urging caution against potential malware hackers
^Youm, Kyu Ho; Kwak, Nojin (August 2018). "3". Korean Communication, Media, and Culture: An Annotated Bibliography (1st ed.). Lexington Books. p. 71. ISBN978-1498583329. The prominent "big three" publications — Chosun Ilbo, Dong-A Ilbo, and Joongang Ilbo — are newspapers of record with a combined three million subscribers.
