The British Broadcasting Service (BBC) has announced new funding and plans for a Korean language World Service program, the BBC announced on Wednesday.

The Korean language programming will be part of 11 new foreign language services in what the BBC is calling the biggest expansion of the World Service since the 1940’s, with £289 million to fund the project.

The BBC called it a “move designed to bring its independent journalism to millions more people around the world, including in places where media freedom is under threat.”

It will “broadcast short-wave and medium-wave radio programs aimed at audiences in the Korean peninsula, supplemented by