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Yonhap was established on 19 December 1980, through the merger of Hapdong News Agency and Orient Press. [1] The Hapdong News Agency itself emerged in late 1945 out of the short-lived Kukje News, which had operated for two months out of the office of the Domei, the former Japanese news agency that had functioned in Korea during the Japanese Japanese colonial era.
Yonhap News TV (Korean: 연합뉴스TV), stylised as YONHAP NEWS TV, is a South Korean pay television network and broadcasting company, owned by the Yonhap News Agency-led consortium. It began broadcasting on 1 December 2011. [1] Yonhap News TV started broadcasting with four new South Korean nationwide generalist cable TV networks.
YTN originally stands for Yonhap Television News (Korean: 연합 텔레비전 뉴스; lit. ' United Television News '), as the channel was the subsidiary of Yonhap News Agency until its separation from the agency in 1998.
On 3 December 2024, at 10:27 pm Korea Standard Time (KST), Yoon Suk Yeol, the president of South Korea, declared martial law during a televised address. In his declaration, Yoon accused the Democratic Party (DPK), which has a majority in the National Assembly, of conducting "anti-state activities" and collaborating with "North Korean communists" to destroy the country, thereby creating a ...
The Yonhap News Agency provided domestic and foreign news to government agencies, newspapers, and broadcasters. Yonhap also provided information on South Korean developments in English by computerized transmission via the Asia-Pacific News Network. Additional links with world media were facilitated by four satellite link stations.
News agencies were created to provide newspapers with information about a wide variety of news events happening around the world. Initially the agencies were meant to provide the news items only to newspapers, but with the passage of time the rapidly developing modern mediums such as radio, television and Internet too adapted the services of news agencies.
Vantage Point began to be published in 1978. [1] [11] It was the most prominent periodical created by the Naewoe News Agency.[1] [12] [13] [2] This agency was a South Korea government-affiliated organization, created in the mid-1970s, and tasked with publishing information and analysis on North Korea from a South Korean perspective through books and journals.
Kang Young-Hoon (Korean: 강영훈, 30 May 1922 – 10 May 2016) was a South Korean politician who served as the prime minister of the sixth South Korean republic, from 16 December 1988 until 27 December 1990.