Welcome to the world of Herald Media.

It has been our privilege to serve you for half a century. Celebrating our 50th anniversary, we have taken the new name Herald Media to reflect our vision of becoming a premier knowledge-information company in East Asia with leadership in media and education.

Leadership comes in many forms. Ours is founded on unparalleled quality and exclusive focus, as we provide unbiased journalism to a highly selective community of readers and world-class language education to students of all ages. Our goal is to build on that tradition of excellence and exclusivity with forward-looking visions and uncompromising professionalism.

And we will do our best to make the Junior Herald, which launched on May 1 this year, to be the most valuable newspaper for preteen. The Junior Herald will surely help our readers to enhance not only their English language skills but also the knowledge on current issues.

Fostering an environment of innovation and progress, the staff at Herald Media will not be content to be recognized as a leader of Korea's knowledge-information industries. For the next 50 years, we will continue to push the boundary of our success, in order to evolve into Asia's leading light in the knowledge-information industries.

We cordially invite you to join in our journey.

Chairman’s Profile

Mr. Jungwook Hong is Chairman, CEO & Publisher of Herald Media Inc. He concurrently serves as Chairman & CEO of Herald Education Inc. - one of Herald Media’s subsidiaries, and Chairman & CEO of Kalia Inc. - his wholly owned holding company and the largest shareholder of Herald Media. Since 2002, Mr. Hong has been on the board of the Korea Newspaper Association and the Korea Press Ethics Commission. He is also on the board of all Herald Media’s subsidiaries, including Herald Schools Inc., Digital Herald Inc., and Herald China Inc.

Previously, he worked as an investment banker with Lehman Brothers and an attorney with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, in New York. Mr. Hong received his A.B. at Harvard University and J.D. at Stanford University. He also studied at Peking University in China and Seoul National University in Korea. Mr. Hong has written many articles and published a book titled “Seven Acts Seven Scenes,” an autobiography that has sold over 1 million copies in Korea.