Gyeonggi Broadcasting Corporation (KFM 99.9; callsign HLDS-FM; ), is a
broadcasting
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company and former radio station headquartered in
Suwon
Suwon (; ) is the largest city and capital of Gyeonggi Province, South Korea's most populous province. The city lies approximately south of the national capital, Seoul. With a population of 1.2 million, Suwon has more inhabitants than Ulsan, tho ...
,
Gyeonggi
Gyeonggi Province (, ) is the most populous province in South Korea.
Seoul, the nation's largest city and capital, is in the heart of the area but has been separately administered as a provincial-level ''special city'' since 1946. Incheon, ...
, South Korea. It was established on January 15, 1997, then launched on December 2, 1997. It was an
FM radio
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broadcaster in
Seoul
Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital city, capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's List of cities b ...
,
Incheon
Incheon is a city located in northwestern South Korea, bordering Seoul and Gyeonggi Province to the east. Inhabited since the Neolithic, Incheon was home to just 4,700 people when it became an international port in 1883. As of February 2020, ...
, and Gyeonggi Province. Its tele number was KFM
frequency
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99.9
MHz
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, over power from 5
kW if similar broadcast network at
KBS,
MBC,
SBS (Korea)
Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS; ) is one of the leading South Korean television and radio broadcasters. The broadcaster legally became known as SBS in March 2000, changing its corporate name from Seoul Broadcasting System (). Its flagship ter ...
.
The station installed an advertising billboard in Paju in 2006, which was criticized as illegal advertising.
On the midnight of March 30, 2020, KFM 99.9 MHz ceased operation, after 23 years of radio broadcasting. The last program before closing down was 8090 Concert.
See also
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KBS Classic FM
KBS Classic FM (also known as ''KBS 1FM'') is a South Korean radio network operated by the Korean Broadcasting System. Most of the schedule is assigned to classical music, making it one of the few radio networks in the world that broadcast mainly ...
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KBS Cool FM
KBS Cool FM (), also known as KBS 2FM ) is a 24-hour Hot AC music and entertainment radio station of the Korean Broadcasting System. It plays mostly older K-pop Music from the 90s compared to KBS Happy FM which plays the latest K-pop tracks. ...
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Gugak FM
References
Mass media in Suwon
Radio stations in South Korea
Radio stations established in 1997
Radio stations disestablished in 2020
Defunct mass media in South Korea
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