Jang Bong-gun's Pen-Point Memoir My Newspaper Office Story 2

The Newspaper Office Landscape of the 1990s: A Record of That Era, Liberating or Painful

It's something unimaginable now, but in the old days, people smoked inside the newsroom. Though there was an unspoken practice of taking turns, sometimes everyone was smoking at once.

Now smokers face ridicule, but back then, non-smokers endured difficult times. As a smoker, I enjoyed freedom.

It was somewhat surprising that the company, which should have broken down educational credentials, had many Seoul National University graduates. Later, it seems to have been diluted considerably.