| １９９０ |
January |
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Approval for incorporation is granted and the company is incorporated as KBS Co., Ltd. |
| １９９１ |
July |
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The Seoul branch is established. |
| July |
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Apple Macintosh computers are introduced. |
| １９９２ |
April
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The Mac Department is established. |
| April |
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The versatility of the Mac enables the company to complete the block copy for a Thai conversation text with Japanese content. |
| April |
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The company's in-house journal Nalgae is launched. |
| １９９３ |
September |
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A mac multilingual imagesetter is introduced. |
| １９９４ |
July |
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The KBS Multilingual Printing System is featured in Japan's largest business newspaper, Nippon Keizai Shimbun. |
| October |
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An article about the above system also appears in the monthly publication Keizaikai. |
| December |
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Asahi Shimbun, one of the most widely circulated newspapers in Japan, prints a feature article on the KBS Multilingual Printing System and the president of KBS, Ko In-Bong. |
| １９９５ |
February |
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The company is involved with the simultaneous printing of Medical Passport, a booklet published by Osaka Prefecture, in seven languages: Japanese, English, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Thai and Tagalog. |
| June |
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The company contributes to work on a Thai and Vietnamese-language conversation book to be published by KDD. |
| July |
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The company publishes the 13th issue of its in-house journal Nalgae and begins using photos taken with a video camera. |
| September |
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The company introduces its second Mac multilingual multi-script imagesetter. |
| December |
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The Internet Team is established. |
| １９９６ |
January |
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The KBS corporate Website is launched. |
| April |
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The “kbsjapan.com” domain name is acquired. |
| １９９７ |
January |
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The company begins to work on a Japanese edition of the Chemin Ilbo newspaper via the Internet. |
| April |
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Fuji Film's Lux Setter 5600, a high-quality film output multi-script imagesetter, is introduced, giving the company the capability to produce full-bleed B2 multilingual output. A multilingual color printer is also introduced. |
| December |
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The company contracts with OCN for a dedicated line providing an always-on 24-hour Internet connection. |
| １９９８ |
January |
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The company marks its 30th anniversary. |
| July |
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The KBS corporate Website is relaunched. |
| August |
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A Multilingual Windows-based DTP system is introduced. Several pages of the in-house publication Nalgae are composed and printed on this system. |
| September |
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The Windows DTP Team is established. |
| １９９９ |
February |
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“鳳@bong's page”, personal website of president Ko In-bong (then), now in operation. |
Brief History