This study is for the purpose of grasping the situation of Korean political advertisement by analyzing the Korean traditional political advertising in the era of mass media and digital media (social networks and internet), especially in journalistic p...
This study is for the purpose of grasping the situation of Korean political advertisement by analyzing the Korean traditional political advertising in the era of mass media and digital media (social networks and internet), especially in journalistic point on view. Recently, interest in political technology than ever before. Political science is taking new forms and new trends in political thought. One of these is - political advertising and technology related to the political PR in the Internet. Since the media election campaign became popular in the election, the appealing aspects in political advertising of newspapers have converted to more aggressive and stimulating direction. Although the political advertising trend in newspapers has been changed in both quantitative and qualitative respect, the most of the previous studies have just focused on evaluating the effect or analyzing the messages of political advertising in journalism. Therefore this study is to analyze the features of political advertizing of newspapers, and remind the problems, and figure out the approach to position the political advertizing of newspapers as a desirable method of election campaign. For further detail analysis, this study targets the political advertisements inserted in newspapers during the 15th Presidential election period in 1997.
Specifically, the study defines the political advertisement in papers during the 15th legal election campaign period for Presidential election as a population, and analyzes what difference they show in advertising types, advertising expression, and advertising from, and retrospect them again in positive and negative respect with depth.
The advertising in the 15th Presidential election, reflect the tendency of image-making and negative message-making in political advertising. Also, it appeared the tendency of emphasizing the hottest political issue in dispute at the same time; increasingly relying on the negative appealing method. In the respect of advertising form, it's obvious to see the trend changing from factor to visual factor.
Political advertisements during the 15th Presidential election were exclusively filled with confrontation of negative advertisements. It's appeared that frequency of appeals and the contents are dramatically changing to aggressive ways.
In conclusion, we believe that this thesis will be the basis for further research, not only in the field of Korean studies, and political technologies. As we look over in this study, political advertising in the newspapers play important role in the 15th Presidential election as a campaign method. However, it's a matter of grave concern that political advertisements just try to appeal to emotional sentiments or frequently appear the negative advertisements. This dissertation contains a large number of media files, tables, and pictures showing the application in practice of political technologies during the election race. It's appeared that the effort is definitely required to realize develop and practise a political marketing strategy with more scientific approach.
A thesis submitted to the Council of the Graduate School of Kyungpook National University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Political Science in June 2013.