Cover Image

Framing of Sewol ferry tragedy: a comparative analysis of South Korean newspapers

On April 16, 2014, a ferry named Sewol was on its way from Incheon to Jeju Island in South Korea, with 476 people on board. Most of the passengers were high school juniors on a school trip. After a sudden turn off at the southeastern coast, the ferry listed and subsequently drifted in the sea for...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yang, Lai Fong, Sohee Jeon,, Wan Idros Wan Sulaiman,
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2016
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10525/1/16502-46352-1-SM.pdf
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10525/
http://ejournal.ukm.my/mjc/issue/view/877
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
id my-ukm.journal.10525
record_format eprints
spelling my-ukm.journal.105252017-07-10T04:31:14Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10525/ Framing of Sewol ferry tragedy: a comparative analysis of South Korean newspapers Yang, Lai Fong Sohee Jeon, Wan Idros Wan Sulaiman, On April 16, 2014, a ferry named Sewol was on its way from Incheon to Jeju Island in South Korea, with 476 people on board. Most of the passengers were high school juniors on a school trip. After a sudden turn off at the southeastern coast, the ferry listed and subsequently drifted in the sea for nearly three hours. The ferry captain instructed the passengers to stay in their cabins until a rescue team reached while he and some other crew members abandoned the ship without informing others to escape. Consequently, only 172 people got off the Sewol ferry before it totally capsized and sank. In the months of rescue and search, the remains of 295 passengers and crew members were recovered from the shipwreck at the cost of the lives of two divers. Nine victims are still unaccounted for. This study aims to examine the framing of the Sewol ferry tragedy by three South Korean newspapers, which undertook different political orientations. The findings indicated that the newspapers reported the tragedy with different intensity and prominence, while employing different news sources. Responsibility was found to be the most salient frame in the coverage by the three newspapers. In addition, this study also found that the newspapers were mostly employing neutral valence in reporting the Sewol ferry tragedy. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10525/1/16502-46352-1-SM.pdf Yang, Lai Fong and Sohee Jeon, and Wan Idros Wan Sulaiman, (2016) Framing of Sewol ferry tragedy: a comparative analysis of South Korean newspapers. Jurnal Komunikasi ; Malaysian Journal of Communication, 32 (2). pp. 715-748. ISSN 0128-1496 http://ejournal.ukm.my/mjc/issue/view/877
institution Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
building Perpustakaan Tun Sri Lanang Library
collection Institutional Repository
continent Asia
country Malaysia
content_provider Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
content_source UKM Journal Article Repository
url_provider http://journalarticle.ukm.my/
language English
description On April 16, 2014, a ferry named Sewol was on its way from Incheon to Jeju Island in South Korea, with 476 people on board. Most of the passengers were high school juniors on a school trip. After a sudden turn off at the southeastern coast, the ferry listed and subsequently drifted in the sea for nearly three hours. The ferry captain instructed the passengers to stay in their cabins until a rescue team reached while he and some other crew members abandoned the ship without informing others to escape. Consequently, only 172 people got off the Sewol ferry before it totally capsized and sank. In the months of rescue and search, the remains of 295 passengers and crew members were recovered from the shipwreck at the cost of the lives of two divers. Nine victims are still unaccounted for. This study aims to examine the framing of the Sewol ferry tragedy by three South Korean newspapers, which undertook different political orientations. The findings indicated that the newspapers reported the tragedy with different intensity and prominence, while employing different news sources. Responsibility was found to be the most salient frame in the coverage by the three newspapers. In addition, this study also found that the newspapers were mostly employing neutral valence in reporting the Sewol ferry tragedy.
format Article
author Yang, Lai Fong
Sohee Jeon,
Wan Idros Wan Sulaiman,
spellingShingle Yang, Lai Fong
Sohee Jeon,
Wan Idros Wan Sulaiman,
Framing of Sewol ferry tragedy: a comparative analysis of South Korean newspapers
author_facet Yang, Lai Fong
Sohee Jeon,
Wan Idros Wan Sulaiman,
author_sort Yang, Lai Fong
title Framing of Sewol ferry tragedy: a comparative analysis of South Korean newspapers
title_short Framing of Sewol ferry tragedy: a comparative analysis of South Korean newspapers
title_full Framing of Sewol ferry tragedy: a comparative analysis of South Korean newspapers
title_fullStr Framing of Sewol ferry tragedy: a comparative analysis of South Korean newspapers
title_full_unstemmed Framing of Sewol ferry tragedy: a comparative analysis of South Korean newspapers
title_sort framing of sewol ferry tragedy: a comparative analysis of south korean newspapers
publisher Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2016
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10525/1/16502-46352-1-SM.pdf
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10525/
http://ejournal.ukm.my/mjc/issue/view/877
_version_ 1643738159508357120
score 13.211869

Similar Items