About
A Korean news company, built to travel.
PEDIEN Inc. was founded in Seoul in March 2016 to automate press-release distribution for Korean newsrooms. Ten years on, it runs a newsroom, a news wire, an English-language U.S. news site and a video studio, with companies in Korea and the United States.
Creative
With companies in Korea and the United States, we follow global trends as they move and turn them into practical ideas.
Experience
Our people come from the press, advertising and planning, and bring that know-how to every proposal.
Vision
We gather information widely and take the long view, so our clients stay a step ahead.
How we work
We start from strategy, not haste. Before we promote a brand, we study its products and services until we understand the business completely. That understanding is where good ideas and effective publicity come from.
Our five P’s
History
From the company’s first press-release system in 2016 to today.
2016
- Founded PEDIEN Inc. and launched the press-release system
- MOU with ND Soft
- Member companies pass 20, then 50 · MOU with Ins Info Media · Media sponsor of Miss Korea Seoul and the Earth Healing Festival
- Launched G20, a global English-language magazine
- Supplied stories to about 1,800 news outlets (via MediaN)
- Regular member of the Korea Internet Newspaper Association · Member companies pass 100
- Board director for journalist relations, Korea Internet Newspaper Association
- System upgrade with finer-grained processing
2017
- Registered with city, county and district offices nationwide
- MOU with the Korea Press Association (한국언론사협회) · Member companies pass 150
- Registered with Seongnam and Seoul city halls · Automation upgrade
- Best Reporter Award, economy
- Secretary general, Korea Internet Newspaper Association · Member companies pass 200
- Best Reporter, Korea Human Leader Awards · Accredited to cover the National Assembly
- MOU with the Yeouido Institute · Member companies pass 250 · Expanded into advertising
- Roles on the Yeouido Institute’s youth and women’s policy committees · Commercial production for the Korea Film Actors’ Association
- Commercials aired on broadcast networks
- Advertising on Seoul subway lines 2, 3 and 4
2018
- System upgrade
- Viral advertising and video for social media and blogs · Platform contract for a newsroom automation program · Terrestrial TV commercials · Advertising on Daegu subway lines 1 and 2
- Advertising on Busan subway line 1
- System renewal · U.S. subsidiary founded in Irvine, California
2026
- PEDIEN News publishes about 1,200 stories a day · More than 225 newsrooms supplied to date
- Data Insight desks launched: original, data-backed analysis with downloadable source data
- In-house news model, fine-tuned on our editors’ corrections and run on our own servers
- First issue of the monthly National Policy Report
- PULSE, an English-language news site covering U.S. public-sector news
- PEDIEN Wire, a pay-per-story news API for publishers
- AI video production for cities, agencies and brands
Partners
Associations and companies we have signed agreements or worked with.
Offices
Seoul
Headquarters, newsroom and editing desk
Irvine, California
U.S. subsidiary, founded in 2018
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