[6] Chosun Ilbo Company had wanted to publish a monthly magazine for some time, and decided to acquire Sedae to do so.

[1][3] The issue uses vertical type and features a guest essay by Ho Jong, the 6th prime minister of South Korea.

[1][3] To this end, beginning in April 1981, they made an effort to include more color and black-and-white images in the magazine.

The magazine became the first to publish the contents of a phone call that led to the arrests of former Presidents Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo in the aftermath of the Coup d'état of December Twelfth.

Cho and Kim released statements saying that they had prepared for the transition for some time, and that the style of the magazine would not change significantly.

[3][1] In 2005, Kim and reporter for MBC Lee Sang-ho [ko] were sued by Samsung as part of the "X-file Scandal".

[9] On June 2, 2009, prosecutors summoned Lee Sang-cheol (이상철; 李相哲), former managing editor (2004–2005) and president of the Monthly Chosun (2005–2009) and then Vice Mayor of Seoul, for questioning.

Lee was accused of accepting bribes of tens of millions of won between 2006 and 2007 to quash the publication of articles on a scandal relating to businessman Park Yeon-cha [ko] and President Roh Moo-hyun.