Kyunghyang Shinmun Announces New Vision for Its 80th Anniversary

Kyunghyang Shinmun held a vision declaration ceremony for its 80th anniversary at The Shilla Seoul on the 6th and announced plans to leap forward as a comprehensive knowledge media group. In his commemorative address that day, Kyunghyang Shinmun President Park Jongseong emphasized that factchecking and the pursuit of truth, monitoring power, and listening to the voices of the weak are core values that Kyunghyang Shinmun has upheld. He went on to say that the company aims to go beyond newspaper production and develop into a platform that produces knowledge and interprets the meaning of information and data. The new vision includes core values of trust, knowledge, and coexistence, along with a growth strategy that adds new media outlets to Kyunghyang Shinmun, Sports Kyunghyang, and Kyunghyang TV, as well as plans to secure new growth engines through mergers and acquisitions. More than 300 people from political and business circles attended the event, and President Lee Jaemyung, in his congratulatory remarks, asked Kyunghyang Shinmun to become a bridge that connects society through truth.