Abstract
The analysis of Korean popular song lyrics is helpful in investigating the social phenomenon or emotions of a certain age, but previous studies have only been limited to a small number of qualitative or quantitative analyses. To overcome this limitation, we collected 3,488 songs from 1964 to 2020 and created networks that link words in noun phrases and verb phrases appearing in the same line of lyrics. Then, we traced how the usage of the word “world” (“sesang” in Korean) changed during the periods from 1986 to 1997 and from 2015 to 2020 whereby to explore the world view of the masses diachronically. As a result, we found that the public in the past had a great interest in the change of the world and had a strong view of the world negatively, whereas recently, interest in the world itself decreased. The network data generated in this study will be made public, so anyone can access it through a web page.
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