This study aims to find a quantity change, a contents change, a pattern change and the reason of changes of golf articles seen in domestic daily newspaper 2 year interval from 1995 to 2005.
For that, extracting data from kinds(www.kinds.or.kr) was se...
This study aims to find a quantity change, a contents change, a pattern change and the reason of changes of golf articles seen in domestic daily newspaper 2 year interval from 1995 to 2005.
For that, extracting data from kinds(www.kinds.or.kr) was selected as a method. The newspapers under research were Chosun-Ilbo which has the most articles and Hankyoreh-sinmun which has the fewest.
And interviews with journalists covering golf was selected as a method to see the reason of changes of golf articles.
The result of study is seen below.
1) Quantity change
Golf articles of 1995 and 1997 were very few. But it had increased tremendously in 1999 and kept increasing through 2001 to 2003 when was peak time. Then it decreased in 2005.
2) Contents change
Golf articles of 1995 and 1997 were mainly critical and related with golf course built-permission and construction. The articles covering tournament or people were appeared in 1999 and increased afterward. The more precise result after 1999 is below.
(1) The articles covering tournament or people were mainstream of golf articles.
(2) The articles about overseas were much more than that about domestic in the articles covering tournament or people.
(3) In case of tournament, articles about female were in the outright majority in 1999. But after that time, articles about foreign male have been increased and major tournaments focused.
(4) In case of people, articles about female playing overseas were in the outright majority.
(5) In other articles except that about tournament and people, lessons and information were increased. But there were many articles about golf course. That is proof Korean people are interested in golf course yet.
3) Pattern change
The straight pattern was in the outright majority through the research period. But the portion of straight pattern is decreased with time flow. Instead the portions of explanation, planning and interview articles were increased gradually.
4) Reason of changes
The main reason of quantity and contents was excellent performance of Korean LPGA player. The total quantity of golf articles changed with increasing or decreasing of articles about their score, contract, etc.
The reason of pattern change was internet. With upgrade of internet level the newspapers lost competitive power, specially in time. So they have had to develop more interesting articles in explanation, planning and interview patterns.
With above result, it is cleared that Korean society recognized golf as a kind of sports after 1999. And negative opinion gradually disappeared with excellent performance of players entered foreign tour, especially LPGA. As a result disappearing negative opinion, golf articles for amateur golfer is increased despite there are many non-golfers.
Through that situation we can say that Korean society went to the period of golf popularization by virtue of players entered foreign tour.
And we also know golf articles will be treated as headline sports news because golf journalists feel burden to develop more interesting news in spite of decreasing the number of articles. Therefore golf marketing maintain the power in the future. But it will be more efficient to make PR with event having story than just event itself.