Unlike the Tongyang Broadcasting Company, MBC opened during the military regime of Park Chung-hee and had more restrictions, aligning its interests and programming with the ruling government.

[11] Together with its main rivals KBS and SBS, MBC TV began full-scale daytime broadcasting on 1 December 2005.

Episodes have included one covering scientific fraud by Korean geneticist Hwang Woo-suk, and another containing arguments against importing US beef.

MBC broadcasts Los Angeles Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates and Texas Rangers games when Hyun-jin Ryu pitches and Shin-soo Choo and Jung-ho Kang bat.

When reporting on the rise in fares caused by the Seoul subway extension project, a young man named So Chang-yeong (24 years old at the time) trespassing into the recording studio and tried to steal the anchorman's microphone, and the incident was broadcast nationwide by MBC.

[17] After So Chang-yeong asked for words, the screen was switched to a newsreel of Sohn Suk-hee's report to reduce the impact.

During the police investigation, he claimed, "I had a wiretapping device in my right ear, and the vibration noise caused me a lot of pain.

The police said that on July 13, 1987, while he was working as a lathe operator, he was hit by a soccer ball during his lunch break and his right eardrum was ruptured.

[23] On 26 August 1988, ahead of the 1988 Summer Olympic Games, MBC TV entered a period of indefinited general strike due to possible government interference.

[24] In 1999, Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation aired PD Note, a documentary program criticizing Jaerock Lee.

Members of the Manmin Central Church forcibly entered the TV station and cut off the power supply in the control room, interrupting the programme several times.

[32] MBC cancelled Music Camp, and the Korean Broadcasting Commission considered heavy disciplinary measures.

[36][37] On 27 April 2008, PD Note televised an episode called "Is American Beef Really Safe from Mad Cow Disease?"

The South Korean Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries filed a legal suit against the producers as it announced that the program was distorted and exaggerated.

[39] The Korean Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs applied for an injunction to stop the airing of a PD Note episode, "The Six-Meter-Deep Secret of the Four Major Rivers," which was scheduled to be broadcast on August 17, 2010.

The news sparked outrage among Korean netizens due to its contents which consist of inappropriate materials.

[44] During the broadcasting of the parade of nations on the 2020 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, MBC was accused domestically and internationally for making depictions of numerous countries that were deemed racist and offensive.

He apologised to the Embassy of Ukraine and Romania in Seoul in a press conference and promised to ensure all of its content to be respectful towards universal values and cultural diversity.