Jeju Ilbo's first president was Kim Seok-u (김석우; 金錫祐).
During the 1948–1949 Jeju uprising, the newspaper was seized by the North-West Youth Association and operated irregularly.
[1] On November 20, 1962, in accordance with media restrictions during the Third Republic, the paper was merged with a weekly paper Jemin Ilbo (제민일보; 濟民日報) and published under the name Jeju Sinmun (제주신문).
In 2020, another lawsuit resulted in the mainline group winning back the rights to the name.
[4][3] The breakaway group finally changed its name to Samda Ilbo [ko]