• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.69-78
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• 2019

This study surveyed the relationship between television viewers' ages and Korean broadcasting companies' credibility and viewers' political involvement and resistant behavioral intention based on total 1,026 participants(206 adolescents, 518 college students, and 302 adults) during President Park, Guen Hye's political scandal. The results indicate that there is a significant difference between ages on political involvement and resistant behavioral intention. College students shows the higher scores of political involvement and resistant behavioral intention, followed by adolescents and adults. Secondly, the higher score of credibility on KBS and MBC news, the lower scores of political involvement and resistant behavioral intention, the higher scores of credibility on SBS and JTBC news, the higher score of political involvement and resistant behavioral intention.