• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.27
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• pp.283-316
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• 2004

This study examines different news frames of local newspapers reporting the controversial 'Nu[lear Waste Site' issues which deeply split regions showing their intention to bid for the state affair. Three local papers were analyzed for this study, "Gwang-Ju-Il-bo" "Mae-il-sin-mun" and "Jun-buk-il-bo." Overall, the three local papers displayed widely divergent main news frames on the same issue. Firstly, "Gwang-Ju-Il-bo", and "Mae-il-sln-mun" showed the strong tendency of using 'counter frame' while "Jun-buk-il-bo" exhibited 'loral development frame'. Secondly, "Gwang-Ju-Il-bo", and "Mae-il-sin-mun" were frequently headlined 'Nuclear Waste Site', while "Jun-buk-il-bo" carried headlines 'Radioactive Waste Management Facility' overwhelmingly more often than the other two papers, indicating that headline key words are closely associated with the configuration of news frames. Thirdly, the main news frames remained consistent for "Gwang-Ju-Il-bo", and "Mae-il-sin-mun" even after the government's report about the possible connection of 'ion-beam irradiation-accelator' and 'Nuclear Waste Site.' On the other hand, "Jun-buk-il-bo" was significantly less headlined 'Nuclear Waste Site' while significantly more headlined "Radioactice Waste Management Facility." "Jun-Buk-il-bo" which is in stark contrast to the other two papers changed in its tone by increasing the 'local development frame' with decrease in the 'counter frame.' The "Jun-buk-il-bo"'s more frequent use of 'Radioactive Waste Management Facility' as a headline than "Nuclear Waste Management Equipment" is seen as its attempt to minimize negative image of Nuclear Waste and to promote favorable public opinion by highlighting aspects of economic benefits and the local development the construction would brind about. The major findings of this study further support the claim that media overage ends up a reality. The fact that Buan in Jun-buk Province made a successful bid for the construction is not a coincidence.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.26
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• pp.157-208
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• 2004

This study explored how television news constructed an issue of the building of a nuclear waste facility on Wido, an issue which displayed a social conflict in the latter half of the year 2003. To do this, this study conducted frame analysis on KBS and MBC main news including national and local ones, broadcasted from 11 July, 2003 to 10 December, 2003. It was found that television news tended to stress violent protests against site designation and social disorder rather than the causes of a conflict and its solutions. Therefore, news reporting excluded fundamental reasons of conflict such as the governmental decision-making process of site designation, geological suitability, safety issue and nuclear energy policy, emphasizing the confrontation and clash between pro and con groups of site designation. This indicates that television news defines an issue of the building of a nuclear waste facility as the local conflict between groups, the police and demonstrators, or neighbors who approve and protest the site designation, not as the national issue of nuclear policy.

• The Korean Publising Journal, Monthly
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• s.357
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• pp.58-59
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• 2005

• 동위원소뉴스
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• no.10 s.46
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• pp.4-5
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• 2000

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.25
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• pp.65-102
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• 2004

The purpose of this study was to examine the news attributes of the nuclear waste storage facility in Wido by conducting content analysis of two newspapers (Chosun Ilbo and Hangyoreh) and Ohmynews. Furthermore, this study measured the effects of news attributes on readers' attitude, opinion, and recognition of the event. The results of the content analysis indicated that all three newspapers focused on event-oriented coverage than issue-oriented one. Also, they only dealt with two issues-decision making process of the residents and rewards for residents-among a total of nine issues. That is, according to the hypothesis of the second-level agenda-setting theory, the media emphasize on a particular attribute while ignoring other attributes, which, in turn, make the particular attributes more salient. Based on the results of content analysis, this study conducted an experiment to measure the effects of media attributes on public recognition toward the attributes in terms of cognitive and of affective aspects. The results showed a significant relationship between media attributes and public attributes, which confirmed the effects of the second-level agenda setting. However, the transfer of attributes did not take place in affecting public opinion and public recognition of the event itself.

• 한국정책학회보
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.235-266
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• 2013

본 연구는 일반인들이 원자력 관련 기관에 대해서 가지는 다양한 신뢰유형이 원자력 수용성에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 분석하였다. 이를 위해 선행연구의 검토를 통하여 신뢰를 대상별, 유발요인별로 기관에 대한 신뢰, 사람에 대한 신뢰, 인지적 신뢰, 정서적 신뢰 등으로 구분하였다. 최종적으로 이들을 결합하여 기관에 대한 인지적 신뢰, 기관에 대한 정서적 신뢰, 사람에 대한 인지적 신뢰, 사람에 대한 정서적 신뢰 등 신뢰유형을 나누어서 원자력 수용성에 대한 이들 신뢰유형의 상대적 영향력을 분석하였다. 또한 원자력에 대한 수용성은 강도에 따라 가장 약한 '현재의 원자력 발전소 유지'에 대한 수용성, '원자력 발전소 추가 건설'에 대한 수용성, 가장 강도가 강한 정책인 '핵폐기장 건설'에 대한 수용성 등으로 구분하였다. 분석결과를 통해 신뢰는 원자력의 수용성에 매우 중요한 요소임을 다시 한 번 강조할 수 있다. 또한 일반인들은 각각의 신뢰유형에 대해서 차별적으로 인지하고 있음을 보여주었으며 이에 따라 신뢰에 대한 다(多)유형, 다(多)차원적 고려가 필요함을 알 수 있었다. 한편 정책의 강도에 따라 가장 약한 정책에 대한 수용성에서는 기관에 대한 인지적 신뢰가 가장 강한 영향력을 가진 반면 정책에 대한 강도가 강해질수록 사람에 대한 정서적 신뢰의 영향력이 강해지는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 결과는 원자력 정책의 주요 내용과 파급효과, 시민들에게 미치는 영향의 강도 등에 따라서 신뢰제고를 위한 차별적 전략이 필요함을 시사한다.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.25
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• pp.7-40
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• 2004

Today, nuclear energy conflict is caused from the dangerous radioactive material. The main party of this conflict are politic and economic systems which deride nuclear energy, and the persons concerned which it oppose and the anti-nuclear environment group. If the nuclear waste is transported from one nation to another nation, multi national anti-nuclear group appears as conflict party. We call this domestic and transnational risk communication new social movement. From the viewpoint of system theory, the new social movement can mean the offensive development of self-reference which withstand the "technicalization of communication" through the "symbolically generalized communication media" like money and power. By comparing Northeast Asia and Europe, the nuclear energy conflict did not show a big difference in the selection of nuclear waste storing site. In the Northeast Asia, when Taiwan exports the nuclear waste to North Korea, the international conflict broke out. In Europe, Germany has a hard experience with the construction-plan for the re-treating plant that produces the plutonium from the dangerous nuclear waste, and with the transnational transport of the nuclear waste. The new social movement aims the global paradigm which is able to guarantee the subtainability of ecological environment. The nuclear conflict in the "world risk society" is solved through the "discourse-alliance" which accomplishes sub-politics by crossing the border of class, nation and system.