This study is about what an effect journalism has on the nationalistic tendency in terms of national characteristics of Korea and Japan. We mainly investigate the sports articles. First, we`ll collect and investigate the articles about 2009 WBC posted...
This study is about what an effect journalism has on the nationalistic tendency in terms of national characteristics of Korea and Japan. We mainly investigate the sports articles. First, we`ll collect and investigate the articles about 2009 WBC posted on the internet, then analyze the nationalistic news behaviors in Korea-Japan match and look for the problems that have. In the other hand, we`ll see how the articles say about 2009 WBC from the side of nationalism. During 2009 WBC 1418 articles about Korean matches were dealt with in the journals and 584 of them were about the matches with Japan. Lots of articles were about Korea-Japan matches. One reason is that Korea had 5 times matches with Japan among total 9 matches, but main reason is because of the strong sense of rivalry traditionally two countries have had historically. Moreover, more than 10 articles mentioned about only 11 players who had a match among total 28 players in Korean team. Bong Joong Geun was mostly mentioned(114 times), next Choo Shin Soo(94 times), third Kim Tae Kyun(89 times). It seems like that Mr. Bong was mostly mentioned because of his outstanding pitch in Japan match. We can easily see journals focused on Korea-Japan matches in 2009 WBC. The strong sense of rivalry formed by the historical memories that Korea had been colonialized by Japan for 36 years made Korean people think that they must beat Japan in all sports games, and this is why most journals deal with the matches favorably to Korea more.