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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/historical-landscape-human-rig
 hts-south-korea-1990-2016-big-data-approach/
SUMMARY:Polarized Embrace: South Korean Media Coverage of Human Rights\, 19
 90-2016
DESCRIPTION:\n	Prof. Koo Jeong-Woo (Department of Sociology\, Sungkyunkwan 
 University\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2015-16)\n	Chair: Paul Y. Chang (Associ
 ate Professor of Sociology\, Harvard University)\n\n	Co-sponsored by the K
 orea Institute\n\n\n	Reporting about human rights has received considerabl
 e attention in social science for the last few decades. Scholars analyzed 
 such monitoring reports as the US State Department’s annual Country Repo
 rts\, as well as media coverage of human rights. This scholarly engagement
  has made great strides in depicting the evolution of human rights. The pr
 evious research\, however\, has centralized a particular set of rights\, i
 .e.\, civil and political rights\, rather than reveal persuasively the mul
 ti-faceted nature of the concept. Consequently\, scholarly works using suc
 h informative tools have yielded a biased understanding of how human right
 s have evolved. Furthermore\, past studies have devoted scant attention to
  the role of political slant of reporting agencies in selecting and framin
 g the topics and issues discussing human rights. We offer new theoretical 
 and analytical solutions to such limits and seek to contribute to a deeper
  understanding of how human rights discourse evolves.\n\n	 \n\n	We first 
 construct a framework useful in categorizing the spectrum of human rights 
 and then analyze the newly compiled corpus data comprising more than 114\,
 000 South Korean newspaper articles—both conservative and progressive le
 aning—referencing the term\, human rights. South Korea spearheaded a rem
 arkable globalization during the 1990s and\, as part of it\, adopted vario
 us human rights institutions—including a government-sponsored human righ
 ts commission—in the following decade. Consequently\, the country shifte
 d from a mediocre country with a tainted human rights profile to a country
  with a record closely paralleling those in the West. We present South Kor
 ean media coverage as a case illustrating an interesting path of the evolu
 tion of human rights and thus offering insight on explicating complexities
  concerning how human rights evolve.\n\n	 \n\n	Our analysis led us to rea
 ch several primary conclusions. First\, South Korean media coverage shows 
 that human rights as a cultural symbol expanded tremendously in the countr
 y\, consistent with global expansion of human rights during the 1990s and 
 2000s. Second\, there existed remarkable shifts among multiple categories 
 and topics of human rights during the study period\, 1990-2016: Initially\
 , civil and political rights dominated\, yet gradually receded as economic
 \, social\, and cultural\, and minority rights moved to the forefront. Thi
 rd\, we found substantial variation in categories and topics of attention 
 between conservative and progressive news sources: Progressive news source
 s allocated substantially more discussion to diverse categories and topics
  than conservative new outlets. These core findings lend support to imager
 y of a polarized embrace in which human rights are diffused with diverse a
 nd rich spectrum\, yet in a highly polarized manner.
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