• CONCEPT AND COMMUNICATION
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• no.23
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• pp.141-188
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• 2019

The relationship between Seobuk Monthly Magazine and Taeguek Bulletin was investigated using a digital humanities methodology. In a quantitative analysis of correlations among a wide variety of academic and association publications between 1905 and 1910 (the modern enlightenment period), these two showed the greatest degree of similarity, with the sole exception of correlations among Japanese and Korean student magazines. Similarity heatmaps of articles in Seobuk Monthly Magazine and Taeguek Bulletin highlight changes in their tone, and the inflection point explains their interrelationship. Based on a cosine similarity between the articles of the two publications, it was confirmed that the relationship between their articles resulted from writers who contributed to both. In addition, keywords were extracted from whole magazines published in the modern enlightenment period, including from Seobuk Monthly Magazine and Taeguek Bulletin, based on TF-IDF weighting. This allows a comparison of the two magazines with academic publications from modern fields of study, which reveals that concept words which had been considered important in earlier conceptual history research, such as 'nation,' 'people' and 'civilization' were very important in academic publications of the modern enlightenment period. Also, for the terms 'education,' 'youth,' and 'Confucius,' there is a significant discrepancy between the discourse of Seobuk Monthly Magazine and Taeguek Bulletin.