Namnamgaldŭng - Partisan Media Framing of Political Polarization in South Korea

• 발행기관: 한국학술연구원
• 저자명: Hannes B. Mosler Hee Kyoung Chang
• 간행물 정보: 『Korea Observer』Vol 50, No 3, 331~354쪽, 전체 24쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 정치외교학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2019.09.30

영문 초록

This article investigates how mass media in South Korea frame political polarization. As an extreme form of political conflict political polarization is characterized by antagonistic and divisive effects on politics and society. In South Korea, political polarization is not only negatively affecting its democracy in general but also inhibiting domestic consensus on rapprochement and reconciliation towards North Korea in particular. This is reflected in depicting political polarization as namnamgaldŭng or South-South conflict referring to two Souths - progressives and rightist-conservatives - polarized in their position regarding how to deal with North Korea. Based on the empirical analysis of newspaper editorials in 2016 this article argues that a partisan framing of South-South conflict in the media is contributing to what the term supposedly is purely describing - political polarization.

목차

Abstract

I. Introduction

II. Previous Literature

III. Theoretical Framework and Method

IV. Analysis

V. Conclusion

References

키워드

namnamgaldŭ ng political polarization political conflict South Korea North Korea mass media newspaper editorial