HK Magazine was founded by best friends Greg Duncan, Stephen Freeman and Gretchen Worth.

South China Morning Post, including HK Magazine, was sold to Alibaba Group in early 2016.

HK Magazine usually contained features about social issues, and articles about music, movies, fashion, dining and travel, etc.

In 2013 it was acquired by South China Morning Post and named HK Magazine Media Group.

On 28 September 2016 The South China Morning Post announced that the magazine's final issue would be released on 7 October 2016.

[3] SCMP's decision to discontinue the publication has been viewed as part of a wider effort under Alibaba management to shift focus away from Hong Kong and onto mainland China, and to market that coverage to western readers overseas.

[4] It has been noted that the Post, once famed for pursuing stories banned in mainland China, has become "markedly less critical of Beijing" in recent years.

[5] Zach Hines, who worked at the magazine from 2005–2015 (serving as editor-in-chief from 2008), wrote of the closure: "The South China Morning Post purchased us at the right time, and for sensible reasons.

But, to my great dismay, this is becoming an increasing impossibility in Hong Kong, in both the mainstream Chinese and much-smaller English media.

The SCMP itself is now owned by Alibaba, perhaps the biggest pro-China organization in the world, if you don’t count the Communist Party.

The paper’s business interests are also drifting away from Hong Kong, and toward readers in the United States and the rest of the west.

As this sad end to HK Magazine shows, it is clear that it is time now for someone else to step up and provide an alternative voice for Hong Kong.

Deleting it would be an utter travesty of journalistic principles – and a slap in the face to SCMP’s readers and to Hong Kong society in general.