한일 신문 사설 도입부의 정보 조직 방식 대조 -헤드라인과 리드를 중심으로- = A Contrastive Study of Information Organization in the Introductions of Korean and Japanese Newspaper Editorials : Focusing on Headlines and Leads

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study analyzes how Korean and Japanese newspaper editorials organize information in their headlines and leads. The dataset comprises 5,880 editorials (2,940 per language) from six major dailies published between August 2019 and December 2024.All 2,940 Japanese editorials uniformly adopt a ‘keyword + space + claim’ headline structure, with keywords invariably composed of bare lexical noun phrases. In contrast, only 22.4% of Korean editorials present keywords as lexical noun phrases; the majority embed narrative context and evaluative orientation within the keyword itself. In the lead analysis, both countries showed a predominance of situational reporting. However, Japanese leads favored time-oriented reporting (72.3%) combined with commentary, while Korean leads were dominated by action-oriented reporting (58.9%) in standalone form, deferring commentary to the body text. This distributional difference was statistically significant (χ² = 1615.68, p < .001, Cramér's V = .524). These findings demonstrate that Japanese editorials employ a ‘context-first’ strategy sequentially layering reference, temporal framing, and commentary from headline to lead whereas Korean editorials adopt an ‘action-first’ strategy, front-loading evaluative framing in the headline and centering the lead on agents' actions.The study provides empirical evidence that differences in information organization between Korean and Japaneseeditorials are already systematically operative at the introductory stage.