[KU Business Journal 60^th Anniversary] 60 Year History of KU Business Journal

< The first weekly newspaper in Korea >

Acting as a compass for business management and a guide for business prosperity, the Center for Business Research & Education, affiliated with KUBS, launched the Business Journal on December 15, 1960, the first business newspaper in Korea. The publication was led by Prof. Kim Hyo-rok, then Director of the Center, Prof. Yun Byeong-uk, then Deputy Director, and Prof. Jo Gu-yeon, then Director of the Center’s Research Department. After gaining official permission for publication during the Jang Myeon administration, the four-page newspaper was published weekly. It was printed by renting the site of the Minkook Daily Newspaper (the Shinhan Bank building today) in Namdaemun, Seoul.

< A tumultuous era – Publication suspension and reissue >

The publication of the Business Journal was suspended temporarily in early 1964 as student demonstrations against the Korea- Japan negotiations caused the school to close several times. Most other forms of university media also had operations suspended.

< First Business Journal>

< Business New Report >

The following year, Business Journal was reissued under the name of the Business New Report. The then Korean government had flexed its muscles to force the name change. The government banned all university media from using the word “journal” in their publications, claiming that “journal” represented established media; thus, university journals could trigger student demonstrations when addressing social issues. For the same reason, it was at this time that the “KU Journal” was also changed to "KU New Report."

The first issue of Business New Report was published on September 21, 1965, and the current order of the Business Journal is added one by one in the order in which it was issued under the first issue of September 21, 1965. It is a great pain that more than 100 issues, which had been published before 1965, were omitted from the calculation of the order.

< Reporting academia and school news >

In 1966, the name reverted to the Business Journal. Originally published by the Center for Business Research & Education (the Institute for Business Research & Education today), the Business Journal fell under the control of KU Graduate School of Business Administration. Accordingly, there have been a lot of articles from the Graduate Student Association and Alumni Association, and the distribution targets were changed. Since the 1980s, it has served as a public relations material for KUBS, and since 2003, the dean of KUBS became the publisher of the journal. Although there have been difficulties and ups and downs in publishing the journal, it is difficult to find a similar example of publishing 16 pages of the tabloid four times a year (once a quarter).

>> Go to see KU Business Journal No. 691.