NEWS LETTER Fresh Story Vol. 37 Jul 2021
| This article summarizes the kimchi news search results obtained using the news search service “Big Kinds” provided by the Korea Press Foundation and summarizes the latest trends. The search term is “Kimchi”, the search target is “News”, and the search term range is “Title”. In order to increase the efficiency of search work, the scope of news media was limited to “Metropolitan newspaper”, “Economy newspaper”, “Broadcasting company”, etc., and the scope of integrated classification items was limited to “Economy”, “Society”, “Culture”, “International”, and “IT_science”. The search target news was released from January 1st to June 17th, 2021. Some of the comments included in this article reflect the writer’s personal perspective, which may differ from the official position of WiKim |
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From the beginning of the year to June 17, 1,022 kimchi-related news items were reported in domestic media (metropolitan newspapers, economy newspapers, and broadcasting companies). Among them, topics intensively reported by various media were selected, and representative articles were randomly chosen for each topic and organized into tables (Tables 1 through 5). In the “Reporting Cases” table, articles possibly related to the political interests of specific people or commercial interests were excluded, and the title of “Contributor” was omitted.
Major topics reported then were “Export and trade balance”, “Imported kimchi”, “Controversy over the kimchi project in China”, “Controversy over the name of kimchi / pao cai” and “COVID-19 and kimchi”. The term “Controversy” was used only on some topics, but controversial articles were expressed across all news topics. The flow of news for each topic is summarized as follows.
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