Editing Korean Broadcasting System (section)

===Early radio broadcasts===
[[File:Korea Broadcasting System (KBS) 한국방송공사 (5481447848).jpg|thumb|right|200px|KBS headquarters in Seoul]]

The KBS began as Gyeongseong Broadcasting Station ({{Korean|hangul=경성방송국|hanja=京城放送局|labels=no}}) with call sign '''JODK''', established by the [[Governor-General of Korea]] on 16 February 1927.<ref>{{cite book|title=A New Modern History of East Asia|publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht|year=2017|isbn=9783737007085|page=292|language=en}}</ref> It became the {{nihongo|Chōsen Broadcasting Corporation|朝鮮放送協會|Chōsen Hōsō Kyōkai|lead=yes}} in 1932. After Korea was liberated from Japanese rule at the end of [[World War II]], this station started using the call sign HLKA in 1947 after the [[United States Military Government in Korea|US-occupied Korea]] was granted the [[ITU prefix]] HL. After a national broadcast, the station was renamed Seoul Central Broadcasting Station in 1948.