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MBC Life

television channel

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ6714700 ↗
Source-derived summary

MBC Life (formerly known as Alice TV) was a South Korean non-'free-to-air' television network, which aired programming documentary for life cultures.

History

In September 2009, MBC acquired Alice TV, at a time when MBC and SBS were buying several cable networks. The relaunched channel started on 5 October 2009 at 11am.

Contents

This is one of the Korean cable television channels that specialize in broadcasting documentary-related life cultures. Was a subsidiary of the MBC Plus Media. The channel aired documentary content from the main terrestrial networks, as well as foreign content coming in from the BBC, CCTV and NHK. In early 2010, it aired Paper Life, a six-part series on the history of paper.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “MBC Life” as television channel. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2009. The account is most persuasive where Life, television and channel can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as television channel. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6714700. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2009 and 2010.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Tracing reception history
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “MBC Life”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow MBC Life primary sources, MBC Life archive and Life research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “MBC Life”?
  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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This entry incorporates text from “MBC Life” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.