History
History of Yonhap News Agency
2010~
- 2010. April.
Hosts OANA Summit Congress
- 2010. Nov.
Serves as the host news agency for the G20 summit in Seoul
- 2011. Mar.
Launches Yonhap News TV
- 2011. Aug.
Hosts the Yonhap International Press Photo Awards
- 2011. Dec.
Launches all-news cable TV channel, news Y
- 2012. Mar
Serves as the host news agency for the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul
- 2012. May.
Serves as the host news agency for the 2012 Yeosu Expo
- 2012. Dec.
Co-hosts photo exhibition with the Vietnam News Agency (VNA)
- 2013. Feb.
Hosts an international conference with the Asia-Pacific Research Center of Stanford University
- 2013. Sept.
Hosts photo exhibition to commemorate the Korean War’s 60th anniversary of ceasefire
- 2013. Oct.
Completes construction of new headquarters
- 2014. Sep.
Yonhap News Agency serves as host news agency for the 2014 Incheon Asian Games
- 2014. Oct. 10-11
Yonhap News Agency serves as host news agency for the International Telecommunications Union conference
- 2015. July
Serves as the host news agency of the 2015 Summer Universiade Gwangju
- 2015. Nov.
Hosts the 39th Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA) Executive Board Meeting
- 2016. March
Signs the host national news agency contract for the PyeongChang Winter Olympics with the IOC
- 2016. April
Opens North Korea portal
- 2016. Sept.
Co-hosts a photo exhibition in Seoul with Iran's IRNA
- 2016. Nov.
Elected the next chair (for the 2019-2022 period) of the OANA
- 2017. Jan.
Begins digital signage operations for the Airport Railroad
- 2017. April
Launches AI-based news chatbot service
- 2017. Aug.
Introduces Soccerbot (robot reporter) service
- 2017. Sept.
Hosts a joint South Korean, Chinese and Japanese photo exhibition to promote the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics
- 2018. Feb.
Serves as the host national news agency for the PyeongChang Olympics
- 2018. April
Serves as the host news agency for the April 27 inter-Korean summit
- 2018. August
Opens Institute of Peace and Media
- 2018. September
Works as the main news agency tasked with providing the government with news articles on an inter-Korean summit in Pyongyang
- 2018. October
Launches 'Korea Now,' Yonhap News Agency's English news channel on YouTube
2000~
- 2000. June.
Launches Yonhap Infomax, the financial news and information arm
Signs a contract with the government to assume the role of the host news agency for the third ASEM summit in Seoul
- 2002. June.
Serves as the host news agency for the 2002 Korea/Japan World Cup
- 2002. Dec.
Signs a contract with North Korea’s Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) for the reception of news and photos
- 2003. April.
Parliament passes the bill on the promotion of news agencies, designating Yonhap News Agency as the country’s key wire service provider
- 2004. Mar.
Launches video services
- 2004. April.
Starts Chinese-language news service
- 2004. May.
Starts sending visual information service to KTX bullet train
- 2005. June.
Signs a contract with the government to be host news agency for the APEC summit in Busan
Dispatches South Korea’s first English-language correspondent to Washington
Starts Japanese-language news service
- 2006. June.
Starts Arabic-language news service
- 2007. Mar.
Starts news service on AREX airport train
- 2007. Sept.
Starts Spanish-language news service
- 2009. Oct.
Starts French-language news service
1990~
- 1991. Nov.
Begins providing graphic news services
- 1993. Sept.
Launches cable news network, Yonhap TV News (YTN)
- 1998. Dec.
Changes its Korean corporate name
- 1999. Jan.
Absorbs North Korea specialist Naewoe Press
1980~
- 1980. Dec.
Yonhap is launched through the merger of Hapdong News Agency and Orient Press
- 1981. Jan.
Publishes its first edition of news services
- 1986. Sept.
Serves as the host news agency for the Seoul Asian Games
- 1988. Sept.
Serves as the host news agency for the Seoul Olympics
- 1989. Jan.
Begins providing English news services to 50 overseas Korean diplomatic missions