Hankook Ilbo Media Group

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Hankook Ilbo Media Group
IndustryMedia
Founded1954
FounderChang Key-young
Headquarters Seoul, South Korea

The Hankook Ilbo Media Group was a South Korean publishing company founded in 1954 by Chang Key-young and headquartered in Seoul. It had been the publisher of Hankook Ilbo , The Korea Times , Seoul Economic Daily , [1] [2] Sports Hankook , Children's Hankook Ilbo , Weekly Hankook and The Korea Times in North America. Hankook Ilbo also published Korean editions of Fortune Korea , Popular Science , Golf Magazine and is Bloomberg TV's content partner. [3] Chang Jae-ku, former chairman of the Hankook Ilbo Media Group, was found guilty in February 2014 by the Seoul Central District Court of embezzling company funds worth a total of 45.6 billion won ($40.8 million) from Hankook Ilbo and Seoul Economic Daily . He was sentenced to three years in prison. [4]

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  1. ↑ Kim, Hee-jin (August 6, 2013). "Hankook Ilbo chairman is arrested for corruption". Korea JoongAng Daily . Retrieved August 7, 2025.
  2. ↑ Kim, Rahn (March 28, 2011). "Chang renamed Hankook Ilbo chairman". The Korea Times . Retrieved August 7, 2025.
  3. ↑ Kikuchi, Tomomi. "Asia's print media are on the ropes". Financial Times. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
  4. ↑ "Newspaper owner gets prison term for embezzlement". The Korea Herald . Herald Corporation. February 11, 2014.
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