Korean News Research Articles

A Contrastive Analysis of English and Korean News Headlines

A Contrastive Analysis of English and Korean News Headlines

Citizen News Podcasts and Journalistic Role Conceptions in the United States and South Korea

This study, drawing on journalistic role conceptions and media systems theory, investigates the different perceptions of news users in the United States and South Korea toward citizen-run news podcasts. The findings reveal that Americans view citizen podcasts performing the role of interpreters of social issues more than other journalistic roles, while Koreans display a perception that the most important role of citizen podcasts is critical commentator against the government and businesses. The study also finds that Korean news users’ trust in citizen podcasts is significantly higher than that of Americans. The present study concludes that citizen podcasts play an alternative role in Korean journalism, while they complement professional journalism in the United States.

국내 언론매체의 이념성향과 뉴스구성에 대한 연구 : 미 대선 후보 '버니 샌더스' 관련 보도의 의미연결망 분석을 중심으로

국내 언론매체의 이념성향과 뉴스구성에 대한 연구 : 미 대선 후보 '버니 샌더스' 관련 보도의 의미연결망 분석을 중심으로

언론보도에 투영된 동시통역에 대한 고찰

This study explores the way simultaneous interpretation is portrayed in Korean news media. Simultaneous interpretation is a complex task requiring an interpreter to master the skills of listening, production, and memory skills which need to be operated simultaneously facilitated by the right coordination skills(Gile, 2009). Thus it requires expertise, and interpreters who are well trained and, consequently, competent in both consecutive and simultaneous interpreting are called ‘conference interpreters.’ Conference interpreters are covered frequently in newspaper articles and are often called ‘simultaneous interpreters’ in Korean media. Conference interpreters are recognized as experts in the field. However recently, the words ‘simultaneous interpretation’ and ‘simultaneous interpreters’ are often used inappropriately: ‘simultaneous interpretation’ is used to describe a celebrity’s language competency; ‘simultaneous interpreter’ is often used to add glamour to a celebrity’s career profile or lifestyle; ‘simultaneous interpretation’ is also often used in names for language services provided for the general public, which requires consecutive interpretation at best. This study explores how the media uses and tweaks the concept of simultaneous interpretation and discusses implications of such misuse.

A Content Analysis of Korean News Research on South-North Korea Issues

A Content Analysis of Korean News Research on South-North Korea Issues

From first daughter to first lady to first woman president: Park Geun-Hye’s path to the South Korean presidency

This paper examines the role of gender and familial ties in Park Geun-Hye’s political trajectory to become the first female president of South Korea. Even though her entry into politics was heavily indebted to her kinship ties to her father Park Jung-Hee, an authoritarian leader who led South Korea from 1963 to 1979, she has consolidated her position within the party and among Korean voters as a viable, competent politician over the last fifteen years. Analyzing Korean news reports, campaign pamphlets, and her autobiography, this study reveals that Park used stereotypes of women as problem solvers in difficult times to open doors for her political entry. During the presidential campaign in 2012, Park was adept at stressing her positive “feminine” traits, overcoming the perceived weaknesses of female politicians by emphasizing her long political credentials and strengths in diplomacy and national security issues. Park presented herself as the embodiment of both change and experience through her campaign slogan “the well-prepared female president” and the public reacted favorably to the appeal.

Representations of Australia in South Korean online news: a qualitative and quantitative approach utilizing Leximancer and Korean keywords in context

This article outlines original empirical research using a quantitative computer-assisted big data approach to survey and evaluate the representation of Australia in popular South Korean online news media sources. This is an exploratory content analysis of news reporting (in Korean and English) on Australia in key Korean digital news media providers and distributors over a six-month-period during which certain key events occurred that drew Korean news media attention to Australia. The research aims to address the fundamental question: what forms and patterns of representation of Australia are present in South Korean online news media? It is designed in large part to understand how Australia is present as a theme in Korean online news, and how this theme is contextualized by associated topics, such as trade, security, or tourism. The quantitative analysis is augmented using a qualitative method: a series of key informant interviews conducted with editors and journalists responsible for the production and prioritization of news. Further, it is interpreted by locating the research in the context of the Australia-South Korea relationship. We summarize the complexities that arise when analyzing large amounts of textual content, especially from two very different languages, discuss the opportunities that arise from mixed methods—by combining big data (breadth) with contextual analysis (depth) and offer suggestions for aspiring researchers.

Women in ethnic news media

The representation of women in so-called mainstream media has been well studied; however, less is known about this representation in ethnic media, especially in North America where the ethnic media sector is constantly growing. Ethnic media’s unique news sourcing strategy – that is, a mix of news locally produced by local staff writers, news outsourced from local mainstream media, and news internationally imported from the country of origin – suggests that the underrepresentation of women in mainstream media can spill over to and be reproduced in ethnic media. A content analysis of Korean news media in Vancouver and Los Angeles finds an interesting interplay between the transnational effect and the local effect. That is, while a pervasive influence of mainstream media from the country of origin is evident (transnational effect), strong female leadership in the local community and the active roles of these leaders as news sources and actors contribute positively to overall representation of women (local effect).

Corpus - based Translation of Korean Weather News into English

Weather news is reported several times every day to convey constantly changing weather conditions, which have an influence on our daily life. Thus, weather news has practical value to us. This study aims to translate diverse linguistic units that are used in Korean weather news into English on the basis of the corpus of Korean weather news and that of English weather news. Both corpora are constructed through the collection of online news from web sites, and thus they contain vivid expressions that are really used in the domain of weather news. This method of corpus-based translation enables us to obtain the product of translation that is free from translationese and to construct a parallel corpus that is useful to machine translation.

A Pragmatic Study of Referring Expressions in English and Korean News Articles

This study explores referring expressions in naturally-occurring contemporary English and Korean written corpus and gives a pragmatic account of the systematic distribution. It focuses on comparing and contrasting types of discourse anaphors to public figures in news articles in two aspects: the order of mention (the first, the second, and the third mention) and the distance between coreferential expressions. This analysis shows that there are two patterns of discourse anaphors in both languages: general anaphoric pattern in English and Korean; sequential anaphoric pattern only in Korean. Meanwhile, it is also argued that Ariel’s cognitive accessibility cannot be applied for explaining two patterns. Rather, a sociocultural pragmatic account gives a comprehensive understanding of two patterns in both languages.

Estimation of Media Slants in South Korean News Agencies Using News Reports on the Sewol Ferry Disaster

Estimation of Media Slants in South Korean News Agencies Using News Reports on the Sewol Ferry Disaster

Who are (not) Koreans? Practices employed by Korean news media for covering Korean-American individuals’ success stories

This qualitative analysis of the coverage of Korean-Americans in Korean media analyzes 325 and 663 articles about Korean-American individuals’ success stories published in 2006 and 2013, respectively. Through an analysis of the scope of coverage, we categorize Korean-American news subjects into five fields: education, politics, economy, entertainment, and sports. We analyze news articles from each field published in the two years. Then, we discuss how Korean media prioritizes educational success as the most important human capital of Korean-Americans. While Korean media stresses Korean-American individuals’ success in mainstream US society using symbolic meanings, they highlight the individuals’ ethnic ties with Korea by emphasizing their close relationships with Korean families and communities. Although we found little meaningful differences between news practices in these two years, increased transnational interactions between Koreans and Korean-Americans might have led media to pay greater attention to Korean-Americans’ citizenship.

Instant mobility, stratified prostitution market: The politics of belonging of Korean women selling sex in the U.S.

Korean women who sell sex in the United States are the regular subjects of South Korean news reports. Sarcastically named “tour girls,” these women are thrown back to the misogynistic position still occupied by the “western princesses” (prostitutes for American soldiers) of Korea's military camp towns. According to general feminist analysis, both the “western princess” and the “tour girl” emerge from institutionalized prostitution. However, this study argues that the motivations and desires of the Korean women who sell sex in the U.S. these days are very different from those of the women in the old days. Hence, this paper will compare the experiences of old women belonging to military camp towns with those of young women selling sex in Korea's stratified prostitution market, using the analytic frame of ‘belonging.’ This will reveal the so–called “tour girl” who was not created overseas but developed as a matter of course within this market that serves Korean male desire. This study will analyze the form of subjectivity and politics of belonging of these newly emerging women along with the changes in the Korean sex industry.

보도 방송 자막번역의 한일 비교－문말표현의 화계를 중심으로－

This thesis makes analysis of Korean news translation, focused on the expression of the end of sentences. Korean has clear speech levels in the end of sentences. When a translator translates a foreign language into Korean, he/she must select speech level, “Hapsho-che” or “Heayo-che”, and sometimes “Heara-che”. Paying attention to this point, the researcher analyzed the speech level of ‘direct utterances’ in the Korean major broadcasting news. As a whole, the use ratio of “Hapsho-che” was 67.4%, “Heayo-che” was 28.1% and “Heara-che” was 4.5%. Comparison between male speaker and female speaker, female speaker’s “Hapsho-che” ratio was 56.2%, and male speaker’s “Hapsho-che” ratio was 71.6%. In the analysis according to the occupation of the speakers, government official/politician’s “Hapsho-che” ratio was highest(91.0%), and citizen’s “Hapsho-che” ratio was lowest(46,1%). Finally, in the comparison of the broadcasting station, MBC used “Hapsho-che” most (69.9%), and SBS’s “Hapsho-che” ratio was lowest(64.7%).

Text Mining: Extraction of Interesting Association Rule with Frequent Itemsets Mining for Korean Language from Unstructured Data

Text mining is a specific method to extract knowledge from structured and unstructured data. This extracted knowledge from text mining process can be used for further usage and discovery. This paper presents the method for extraction information from unstructured text data and the importance of Association Rules Mining, specifically for of Korean language (text) and also, NLP (Natural Language Processing) tools are explained. Association Rules Mining (ARM) can also be used for mining association between itemsets from unstructured data with some modifications. Which can then, help for generating statistical thesaurus, to mine grammatical rules and to search large data efficiently. Although various association rules mining techniques have successfully used for market basket analysis but very few has applied on Korean text. A proposed Korean language mining method calculates and extracts meaningful patterns (association rules) between words and presents the hidden knowledge. First it cleans and integrates data, select relevant data then transform into transactional database. Then data mining techniques are used on data source to extract hidden patterns. These patterns are evaluated by specific rules until we get the valid and satisfactory result. We have tested on Korean news corpus and results have shown that it has worked well, and the results were adequate enough to research further.

Who frames nuclear testing? Understanding frames and news sources in the US and South Korean news coverage of North Korean nuclear testing

ABSTRACTThis study investigated how US and South Korean newspapers framed the North Korean nuclear test on 9 October 2006 and the diversity of news sources in constructing such frames. A content analysis of news articles in the New York Times, Washington Post, Chosun Ilbo, and Hankyore Daily found that US and South Korean newspapers framed the North Korean nuclear test differently. Results also showed that US and South Korean newspapers used news sources differently to support certain frames of the nuclear test coverage, implicating strategic media framing by which news media strategically construct aspects or meaning of the events by selecting different types of news sources. Findings are discussed in relation to news frames and news sources.

Discourse of National Conflicts: Quotations in Japanese and Korean News Coverage of Dokdo Issues

Discourse of National Conflicts: Quotations in Japanese and Korean News Coverage of Dokdo Issues

The Network of Celebrity Politics

With the rise of networked media such as Twitter, celebrities’ ability to speak on policy matters directly to the public has become amplified. We investigate the political implications of celebrity activism on Twitter by estimating the political ideology of thirty-four South Korean news outlets and fourteen political celebrities based on the co-following pattern among 1,868,587 Twitter users. We also had a rare opportunity to match their following behavior with individual-level attributes by relying on supplementary survey data on 11,953 members of an online survey panel. Our results reveal that celebrity following on Twitter is ideologically skewed; a vast majority of Korean Twitter users following politically influential celebrities are liberal. Additionally, survey results show that political celebrities are more likely to attract those lacking the ability to process one-sided information in a balanced manner.

저가항공 관련 국내학술지 네트워크 텍스트 분석

This study applied the network text analysis to reveal the scope and trends of low cost carrier studies. We analyzed low cost carrier research published in Korean journals and news articles. The results showed that there are three clusters in terms of research topics. First dimension consists of articles investigating growth in the low cost carrier industry. The second dimension is associated with service characteristics. The last dimension has strong ties organizational and human resource dimension. We run Krkwic, Krtitle, Netdraw, and Ucinet 6.0 to conduct the network text analysis. This study suggests the direction of low cost carrier research in the future.

Cancer risk factors in Korean news media: a content analysis.

Little is known about the news coverage of cancer risk factors in Korea. This study aimed to examine how the news media encompasses a wide array of content regarding cancer risk factors and related cancer sites, and investigate whether news coverage of cancer risk factors is congruent with the actual prevalence of the disease. A content analysis was conducted on 1,138 news stories covered during a 5-year period between 2008 and 2012. The news stories were selected from nationally representative media in Korea. Information was collected about cancer risk factors and cancer sites. Of various cancer risk factors, occupational and environmental exposures appeared most frequently in the news. Breast cancer was mentioned the most in relation to cancer sites. Breast, cervical, prostate, and skin cancer were overrepresented in the media in comparison to incidence and mortality cases, whereas lung, thyroid, liver, and stomach cancer were underrepresented. To our knowledge, this research is the first investigation dealing with news coverage about cancer risk factors in Korea. The study findings show occupational and environmental exposures are emphasized more than personal lifestyle factors; further, more prevalent cancers in developed countries have greater media coverage, not reflecting the realities of the disease. The findings may help health journalists and other health storytellers to develop effective ways to communicate cancer risk factors.