2025, Vol.33, No.3

The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea 2024 KCI Impact Factor : 0.55

pISSN : 1226-4822
https://journal.kci.go.kr/socioling

This study compares four major Korean hate speech corpora to analyze differences in target group categorization and the impact of construction methods. The results show that the proportions of key target groups—gender, origin, physical traits, and ideology—vary greatly depending on how the corpus was compiled. In particular, keyword-based data sets revealed a notably higher focus on gender, with the influence of data collectors’ subjectivity and contemporary social issues clearly reflected. Furthermore, by analyzing the intersectionality and exclusivity of hate speech, we identified complex interconnections among target groups and challenges in classification arising from contextual usage. The study recommends the development of theme-specific and context-aware corpora to accurately capture these features.

This study investigates how the term burnout was framed, transformed, and made to function in Korean public discourse from 2010 to 2024. Drawing on 9,206 news articles retrieved from the BigKinds database, the research applies an integrated analytical framework combining Entman’s (1993) four framing functions with Leventhal’s Common-Sense Model (CSM) of illness representation. Five dominant frames—medicalisation, individualisation, normalisation, risk framing, and metaphorisation—were identified through quantitative content analysis and qualitative coding with MAXQDA 2024 (qualitative and mixed-methods analysis software). Results show a marked shift from a medicalised frame in Period 1 (2010-2015) to an increasingly normalised frame in Period 3 (2021-2024), indicating a recontextualisation of burnout from an individual pathological condition to a shared everyday experience. Statistical analyses, including chi-square tests, interrupted time series analysis, and keyword network mapping, reveal significant temporal changes in frame distribution, functional complexity, and co-occurrence patterns. The framing functions were found to systematically structure CSM dimensions, shaping public perceptions of identity, causation, temporality, consequences, and controllability. These findings demonstrate that the reframing of burnout reflects not only shifts in linguistic representation but also broader socio-cultural and political reconfigurations, with implications for health communication, organisational policy, and public health strategies.

The purpose of this paper is to study how the term “Honmono,” used as a form of hate speech, gained public attention following the release of Makoto Shinkai‘s film “Your Name” (2017) and has affected individuals and society. It also considers the film’s implications in 2023 in relation to Shinkai’s subsequent film “Suzume.” In this study, news articles and online community posts from 2017 were collected and analyzed. In addition, data from Naver Datalab, an online service, and a survey conducted during the popularity of “Suzume” (2023) were utilized. The analysis showed that there were limitations in the“three stages leading to hate speech anddiscrimination“model proposed in earlier research. Accordingly, this paper proposes a revised model better suited to the case of “Honmono.”