Outlet profile

KED Global (Korea Economic Daily)

South Korean conservative pro-business

Owned byPrivately owned by The Korea Economic Daily (한국경제신문, also known as Hankyung), a South Korean media company that operates 12 subsidiaries. KED Global is produced by KED Global News Network, one of those subsidiaries.

FundingAdvertising revenue, subscriptions (including paid professional tiers for investors and asset managers), and revenue from its broader media group that includes pay TV, magazines, and book publishing.

On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

The Korea Economic Daily was founded on October 12, 1964, as the Daily Economic Newspaper, and adopted its current name in 1980. From its founding, it has advocated for free-market economics and democracy, making it one of South Korea's most consistently pro-business news organizations. It grew into South Korea's largest business daily by revenue and expanded into a media group with subsidiaries covering TV (Hankyung TV), online news (Hankyung.com), magazines, book publishing, and entertainment (TenAsia). KED Global, the English-language arm, was launched to serve international investors, asset managers, and business partners seeking intelligence on Korean financial markets, M&A activity, and corporate news, with content eventually offered in seven languages. The outlet has a formal editorial partnership with The Wall Street Journal and The China Economic Daily. Among South Korean economic publications, it is widely characterized as the most strongly committed to neoliberal economic principles — pro-market, skeptical of regulation, and anti-union — though observers generally note that its political news coverage is less ideologically slanted than its economic commentary. It is not state-owned or state-funded, distinguishing it from some regional peers.

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Profile compiled 2026-07-20; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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