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South Korean newspaper coverage of sexual violence involving international students exhibits distinct gendered and racialized patterns, sympathetically depicting female foreign victims while framing male foreign offenders from less developed Asian nations within 'moral panic' narratives. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

What question did this study set out to answer?

To examine how South Korean newspaper reporting frames sexual violence involving international students through gendered, racialized, postcolonial, and sub-imperial lenses.

August 22, 2026Journal of Gender StudiesOpen Access

Gendered/racialized representations of sexual violence involving international students in South Korean newspaper reporting: postcolonial and sub-imperial dynamics

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KJKyungja JungUniversity of Technology Sydney

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Media analysis uncovers distinct gendered and racialized reporting patterns regarding sexual violence involving international students, highlighting how regional hierarchies shape news coverage.

Key Points

To examine how South Korean newspaper reporting frames sexual violence involving international students through gendered, racialized, postcolonial, and sub-imperial lenses.
Analyzed South Korean newspaper coverage of sexual violence cases involving international students published between January 2004 and August 2024.
Evaluated framing tropes, including victim blaming, postcolonial narratives, and moral panics across differing perpetrator and victim demographics.
Female international victims were depicted primarily through sympathetic and factual reporting, which minimized postcolonial stereotypes and victim-blaming tropes.
Male foreign perpetrators, particularly those from less economically developed Asian countries, were framed predominantly within moral panic narratives influenced by regional racial hierarchies.

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Kyungja Jung (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a895f62ca7ade938187e05a https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2026.2720627

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August 22, 2026Journal of Gender StudiesOpen Access

Gendered/racialized representations of sexual violence involving international students in South Korean newspaper reporting: postcolonial and sub-imperial dynamics

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Authors

KJKyungja JungUniversity of Technology Sydney

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Implication

Media analysis uncovers distinct gendered and racialized reporting patterns regarding sexual violence involving international students, highlighting how regional hierarchies shape news coverage.

Key Points

To examine how South Korean newspaper reporting frames sexual violence involving international students through gendered, racialized, postcolonial, and sub-imperial lenses.
Analyzed South Korean newspaper coverage of sexual violence cases involving international students published between January 2004 and August 2024.
Evaluated framing tropes, including victim blaming, postcolonial narratives, and moral panics across differing perpetrator and victim demographics.
Female international victims were depicted primarily through sympathetic and factual reporting, which minimized postcolonial stereotypes and victim-blaming tropes.
Male foreign perpetrators, particularly those from less economically developed Asian countries, were framed predominantly within moral panic narratives influenced by regional racial hierarchies.

Cite This Study

Kyungja Jung (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a895f62ca7ade938187e05a https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2026.2720627

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