The Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation, or MBC for short, is a South Korean television and radio company which was founded in 1961, when they launched the first radio broadcast signal from Seoul. They began transmission of their first television station, simply called MBC TV, in 1969. The company eventually grew to be such a large conglomerate that they created several specialized subsidiaries to deal with specific types of media they produce (MBC C&I [originally two companies, MBC Production and MBC Media Tech], MBC Broadcast Culture Center, MBC Arts Company, and MBC Arts Center). The company operates eleven TV stations (one terrestrial channel, five satellite channels, and five cable channels), three radio stations, and four digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) channels.
In 2003, MBC's main TV station began to air Dae Jang Geum, which would prove to be one of their most popular shows and ended up being one of the main proponents of the spread of Korean culture worldwide (also known as the "Korean Wave"). It got to the point that the set where the show was filmed got renovated into a tourist attraction known as the Dae Jang Geum Theme Park.
Shows which have been aired by MBC's television stations:
- Air City
- Arang and the Magistrate
- Best Love
- Big Mouth (2022)
- Can You Hear My Heart?
- Dae Jang Geum
- Dong Yi
- Fated to Love You (the Korean remake, of course)
- The First Shop of Coffee Prince
- The Gu Family Book
- I'm a Singer
- The King 2 Hearts
- The King Loves
- King of Mask Singer
- The Last Scandal
- Miss Ripley
- My Lovely Sam-soon
- Pasta
- Personal Taste
- Playful Kiss
- Pucca
- Queen Seondeok
- Scholar Who Walks the Night
- Twinkle Twinkle
- Two Weeks
- Unstoppable High Kick
- What's Up Fox?
- When A Man Loves
- W Two Worlds
