Kwangju Ilbo
Kwangju Ilbo is a South Korean regional daily newspaper. It was part of Daeju Group in November 2003. It was created by Honam journalists in 1952. Kwangu Ilbo was formed by a merger of Jeonnam Ilbo and Jeonnam Meil because of a media blackout imposed by a new army group. In 2004, it was changed from an evening to a morning newspaper.
History
1952 to 1980
The Kwangju Ilbo was founded on 31 November 1980 as The Daily local newspaper, which combined The Jeonnam Ilbo and The Jeonnam Maeil Ilbo.At that time, The Jeonnam Ilbo had been in existence for twenty-eight years and nine months, The Jeonnam Maeil Ilbo had been in existence for twenty years and two months.
1980 to 1990
In 1982, they made 'Mudeung Munhwa award'. In 1984, they published1990 to 2000
In 1990, they conducted a campaign to raise funds for the construction of Namdo Haksuk and introduced Computer Type System.In 1993, they published 「Gwang-ju Cheonam one hundred years chronological table」, and slated for Electric light news-board.
In 1996, they purchased Cutting edge color rotary press, starting internet service. and operating Super sized Electric light news-board.
In 1997, Second factory was published at Songha-dong, Namgu, Gwangju.
2000 to present
In 2004,In May 2004, they founded Hampyeong Dynasty CC.
Since January 2004, converted to morning paper, they started the second inception.
In 2011, Kwangju Ilbo channel A was set up.
Content
At first, it was published for 48 pages a week. In 1981 it was expanded from 48 to 72 pages per week. In 1999, it was fully written laterally. In 2004, it became a morning paper. The paper has had an online presence since 1996.Editors
- Nam-jung Kim
- Jong-tae Kim
- Seoung-ho Choi
- Young-ho Son
- In-ho Baeck
- Jin-young Kim
- Jae-cheol You
- Yae-song Kim