South Korean broadcasting company
Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation
Latin-alphabet logo used since 3 January 2005
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Native name
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Hangul
| 株式會社 文化放送
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Hanja
| 株式會社 文化放送
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Revised Romanization
| Jusikhoesa Munhwa Bangsong
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McCune?Reischauer
| Chushikhoesa Munhwa Pangsong
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Company type
| Public broadcasting company
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| KRX
:
052220
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Industry
| Broadcast
radio
and
television
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Founded
| 21 February 1961
; 63 years ago
(
1961-02-21
)
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Headquarters
| 267,
Sangam-dong
,
Mapo District
,
,
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Area served
| - South Korea
- United States (satellite, certain
metropolitan
areas over-the-air)
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Key people
| Ahn Hyung-joon, CEO and president (2023-present)
[1]
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Revenue
| 1,500,941,912,398
won
(2015)
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| 59,272,035,738 won (2015)
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| 82,403,520,805 won (2015)
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Total assets
| 2,557,227,645,206 won (December 2015)
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Total equity
| 1,000,000,000 won (December 2015)
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Owner
| Ministry of Culture Sports and Tourism
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Number of employees
| 1,712 (December 2015)
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Subsidiaries
| - MBC Plus
- MBC C&I
- iMBC
- MBC Arts
- MBC Play Fee
- MBC Academy
- MBC America
- MBC Nanum
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Website
| IMBC.com
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Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation
(
MBC
;
Korean
:
株式會社 文化放送
;
Hanja
:
株式會社 文化放送
;
RR
:
Jusikhoesa Munhwa Bangsong
;
lit.
"Joint-stock company Cultural Broadcasting") is one of the leading
South Korean television
and radio broadcasters.
Munhwa
is the
Sino-Korean
word for "culture". Its flagship
terrestrial television
station
MBC TV
broadcasts as
channel
11.
Established on 2 December 1961, MBC's terrestrial operations has a nationwide network of 17 regional stations. Although it operates on advertising, MBC is a Network Radio Television as its largest shareholder is a public organization,
the Foundation of Broadcast Culture
. MBC consists of a multimedia group with one terrestrial TV channel, three radio channels, five cable channels, five satellite channels and four DMB channels.
MBC is headquartered in
Digital Media City
(DMC),
Mapo District
,
Seoul
and has the largest broadcast production facilities in Korea including digital production centre Dream Center in Ilsan, indoor and outdoor sets in
Yongin Daejanggeum Park
.
History
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Radio era (1961-1968)
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Launching the first radio broadcast signal (call sign: HLKV, frequency: 900 kHz, output: 10 kW) from Seoul, MBC started as the first non-governmental commercial broadcaster in Korea. On 12 April 1963, it obtained a license from the government for operating regional stations in major cities (Daegu, Gwangju, Daejeon, Jeonju) in Korea, and established a broadcast network which connects six cities including Seoul and Busan.
Black and white TV era (1969-1980)
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MBC launched TV broadcasting on 8 August 1969 (call sign: HLAC-TV, output: 2 kW), and started to broadcast its main news program
MBC Newsdesk
on 5 October 1970. It reached affiliation deal with 7 commercial stations (in Ulsan, Jinju, Gangnueng, Chuncheon, Mokpo, Jeju, Masan) between 1968 and 1969, and started nationwide TV broadcasting through its 13 affiliated or regional stations. In 1974, FM radio was launched, and MBC took over the
Kyunghyang Shinmun
(daily newspaper company).
Colour TV era (1980-1990)
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The first colour TV broadcasting was started on 22 December 1980. MBC was separated from the Kyunghyang Shinmun according to the 1981 Basic Press Act. In 1982, it moved into the Yeouido headquarters. That same year, the network founded its baseball team,
MBC Cheong-ryong
(Blue Dragon), which entered the
KBO League
as a charter team, in addition to the network being the first home of the league's TV broadcasts. With the live coverage of the 1986 Seoul Asian Games and the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, MBC made a great advancement in scale and technology.
Ownership of the Blue Dragon was passed to
LG Corporation
in 1989.
Multimedia era (1991-2000)
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After rapidly growing into a large corporation, covering major international events, MBC established specialized companies for each value chain (MBC Production, MBC Media Tech, MBC Broadcast Culture Center, MBC Arts Company, MBC Arts Center) and spined them off as subsidiaries to become a more efficient corporation amid fiercer competition in the multimedia era. ※ MBC Production and MBC Media Tech were merged into MBC C&I in August, 2011.
Digital era (2001?present)
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As the convergence of broadcasting and communications becomes full-fledged, MBC made its subsidiary iMBC (internet MBC) an independent corporation and pursued various internet-related business. Furthermore, it started cable TV (MBC Plus Media,) satellite TV, new DMB broadcasting and full daytime broadcasting on terrestrial television. In 2007, MBC established digital production centre Ilsan Dream Center, which is equipped with high-tech production facilities. In September 2014, it completed the construction of a new headquarters building and moved from Yeouido to Sangam-dong, opening a new era of Sangam MBC.
In 2001, MBC launched
satellite
and
cable television
broadcasting. As part of this expansion it created MBC America, a subsidiary based in
Los Angeles
, United States, to distribute its programming throughout
the Americas
. On 1 August 2008, MBC America launched MBC-D, a
television network
carried on the
digital subchannels
of
KSCI-TV
,
KTSF-TV
, and
WMBC-TV
. The service was planned to be launched in Atlanta, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. by the end of the year.
[2]
In northeast
metro Atlanta
, it aired on
WKTB-CD
channel 47.3 (now a
Telemundo
affiliate), but as of 2011 is on
WSKC-CD
channel 22.1.
In March 2013, computer shutdowns hit South Korean television stations, including MBC.
[3]
The South Korean government asserted a
North Korean
link in the
March cyberattacks
, which has been denied by Pyongyang.
[4]
International relations
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MBC is an active member of international organizations such as ABU (
Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union
), IATAS (International Academy of Television Arts & Science) and INPUT (
International Public Television Screening Conference
), and is affiliated with 21 broadcasters in 13 countries.
It is engaged in various global business through overseas corporations in Los Angeles and Shanghai, and bureaus in North America, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East as well as Asia, in close cooperation with major global media groups.
MBC is devoted to entering foreign markets and expanding the business area. It maintains a close relationship with foreign buyers by participating in major content markets every year such as MIP-TV, MIPCOM, NATPE, BCWW and ATF. It operates an English website which introduces various MBC content to the overseas buyers and viewers so that they can easily access its content.
MBC drama
What on Earth Is Love?
is the first
Korean Wave
drama which sparked the K-drama boom across China, when it was aired on CCTV in 1997. Since then, numerous MBC dramas, entertainment shows, and documentaries have been exported to different countries. The drama
Dae Jang Geum
was shown in as many as 91 countries around the world. More recently, MBC is widening its content business area by exporting show formats such as
I Am a Singer
,
We Got Married
and
Dad! Where Are We Going?
to other countries.
Channels
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- One terrestrial TV (
MBC TV
? channel 11)
- Three radio stations:
- Five cable/satellite (MBC Drama,
MBC Sports+
,
MBC M
,
MBC every1
and MBC ON)
- Three terrestrial DMB (TV, radio,
data
)
- Two satellite DMB (MBC Drama, MBC Sports+)
Headquarters
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Logo history
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First MBC logo (used 1961 to 1969)
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Second MBC logo (used 1969 to 1974)
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Third MBC logo (used 1974 to 1980)
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Fourth MBC logo (used 1980 to 1981)
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Fifth MBC logo (used 1981 to 1985)
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Sixth MBC logo (used 1981 to 1985)
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Seventh MBC logo (used 1986 to 2005)
See also
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References
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External links
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Key people
| Current
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- Park Sung-jae (president and CEO)
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Former
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- Kim Ji-tae (founder)
- Go Won-jeong
- Hwang Yong-joo
- Jo Jung-chul
- Lee Hwan-eui
- Lee Jin-hee
- Lee Woong-hee
- Hwang Sun-pil
- Kim Young-soo
- Choi Chang-bong
- Kang Seong-gu
- Lee Deuk-yeol
- Noh Seung-dae
- Kim Joong-bae
- Lee Geung-hee
- Choi Moon-soon
- Ohm Ki-young
- Kim Jae-chul
- Kim Jong-guk
- Ahn Gwang-han
- Kim Jang-gyeom
- Choi Seung-ho
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Subsidiaries and divisions
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