Analysis of news reporting reveals greater collectivism than individualism in South Korean newspapers, indicating cultural influences.
This research examines whether the strong collectivism of Korean culture is reflected in newspaper coverage of the Sewol Ferry disaster. It is investigated whether collectivist news reporting is more prevalent than individualistic reporting in discussions of the disaster’s causal structure, predictability, and societal versus individual-level causes and solutions. The strong collectivism manifested more prominently in opinion articles than in straight news or analytical articles. Ideological leanings of newspapers did not interact with the collectivist-individualistic cultural framework.
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