ABSTRACT

This article provides a framing analysis of media coverage of minimum wage between public and commercial broadcasters in South Korea. To do this, the current study content analyzed 1505 news reports about “minimum wage” aired by two public television broadcasters and two commercial television broadcasters in 2018. The analysis finds that both public and commercial broadcasters directed citizens’ attention to the new policy’s collective harms framed as “increasing unemployment” and “harms to the economy,” while deemphasizing the particularistic benefits of the minimum wage increase and the resulting reduction of inequality gap between the rich and the poor. Further, all the broadcasters have not provided citizens with enough information necessary for a balanced assessment of the pros and cons of the minimum wage increase.

摘要

本文对韩国公共广播公司和商业广播公司之间最低工资的媒体报道进行框架分析。为此，本研究内容分析了2018年两家公共电视台和两家商业电视台播出的1505条关于“最低工资”的新闻报道。分析发现，公共电视台和商业电视台都将公民的注意力引向了新政策的集体危害。被框定为“增加失业”和“对经济的损害”，同时淡化了最低工资增长的特殊好处以及由此导致的贫富差距缩小。此外，所有广播公司都没有向公民提供足够的信息来平衡评估最低工资增长的利弊。