Abstract
This study examines news coverage of Chloe Kim by Korean news media during the 2018 Winter Olympics. Building upon the literature on ethnic diaspora return, gendered sports communication, U.S. exceptionalism, and Korean nationalism, this study posits that Korean news outlets represent the second-generation Korean American female athlete as a gifted daughter of South Korea to produce nationalist discourse. Employing critical discourse analysis as a primary method, this study suggests that Korean news media emphasized not only Chloe Kim’s outstanding athletic prowess but also her immigrant family and background, particularly her father Jong-Jin, who emigrated from Korea to the United States in the 1980s. Additionally, Korean news outlets recycled and reconfigured Jong-Jin’s model minority narratives to highlight Kim’s outstanding Koreanness and produced good immigrant narratives in South Korea. This paper captures discursive moments of Korean nationalism constructed in news reports about Chloe Kim through a lens of return migration to shed light on neoliberal articulations and the transnational construction of Korean nationalism.KeywordsChloe KimKoreannessWinter OlympicsKorean nationalismU.S. exceptionalismDiasporic athletes
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