Conservative Journalists’ Myth Making in South Korea
Use of the Past in News Coverage of the 2008 Korean Candlelight Vigil
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12349238 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wooyeol Shin (0000-0003-3813-4103, University of Minnesota, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 120-136 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1035-7823 • E-ISSN: 1467-8403 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10357823.2015.1126221 |
| OpenAlex | W2272863128 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 28 |
This article explores the role of three conservative newspapers in South Korea as storytellers that create and maintain the collective memory of Korean conservatives through textual analysis of news stories on one particular recent event, the 2008 Korean Candlelight Vigil. Several protests since the 1980s in which the democratic-progressives were a leading force have been used as a source of historical analogies that have helped conservative journalists to interpret contemporary events and issues, including the 2008 vigil. These past protests were framed as anti-American, pro-North Korean leftist actions in the news stories. Some aspects of these past events were omitted – for example, former democratic-progressive activists’ contribution to the democratisation process – while other aspects were emphasised, notably the violent nature of the earlier generation of activists. In addition, conservative journalists constructed a revisionist version of one particular past protest, the 2002 Korean Candlelight Vigil, and used it to serve present political purposes, conflating the rhetoric and language of the earlier protests into their reporting of the current protest. These discourse strategies helped to incorporate the current protest into a larger discourse of “the threat posed by the leftists”, which is embedded in the collective memory of Korean conservatives
Collective memory · Democracy · Media studies · Newspaper · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Vigil · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Gender Studies · History · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies · Law · Media Studies and Communication
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0,78 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |