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 The YTN NewSquare building, which is the company headquarters in Sangam-dong | |
| Type | Cable television network |
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| Country | South Korea |
| Headquarters | Sangam-dong, Mapo District, Seoul, South Korea |
| Programming | |
| Picture format | MPEG4 1080i |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | KEPCO KDN: 21.43% Korea Ginseng Corporation: 19.95% Mirae Asset Life Insurance: 14.98% Korea Racing Authority: 9.52% Woori Bank: 7.40% |
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| History | |
| Launched | 1 March 1995 (cable) |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
YTN (KRX: 040300) is the first 24-hour Korean news channel to be broadcast throughout South Korea. It was founded on September 14, 1993, and began broadcasting on March 1, 1995.
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. The channel's previous slogans are "Yesterday, Tomorrow and Now" and "Your True Network", both of them being acronyms for the channel's name after the separation. The channel's three current slogans are "Always First", "Exclusive Tomorrow" and "Yes! Top News!". It also has the slogan, "Whenever and wherever there is news, we are there."