1.4 Conclusion

After the brief analysis of the South Korean women`s organizations` activity, their agenda and main statistical data, we can draw the following conclusion:

1. The liberalization of power in South Korea led to emergence of opportunities for the female organizations` activity. It became possible to remove patriarchal hoju system only after it woman could be elected in the National Assembly. The organizational, institutional form of the feminist movement became more preferable for the investigation of problems and coping with them. It is almost impossible to solve serious problems without permanent financial sources and without support of serious officials – government in any case can be called the best authority supportive instance.

2. South Korean feminist organizations cannot be called monolithic. We can divide them in reformist and radical groups. Reformist provide cooperation with governmental structures and support mostly legislative work in the direction of the women`s social position. That is why KWAU and KWDI work in connection with the government – at the same time KWH has a reputation of quite marginalized organization, radical in its essence and attitude towards males and violence.

3. After the statistical data analysis we can see that women are the primary victims of all the well-known forms of violence: spousal, physical, sexual and psychological. In the next chapter I will analyze the reflection of this problem in the major South Korean media.

4. Wide problems that women face in the current South Korean society are connected with familial institution and the situation on the labor market. This problem is still very sharp for the Republic of Korea. In the next chapter I am going to analyze the reflection of this problem in South Korean media in connection with the feminist movement.

Chapter 3 Reflection of the feminist agenda in South Korean media

In this chapter I want to concentrate on the reflection of the main social and psychological problems on the feminist agenda and of the feminist activity in key South Korean media. In this chapter I will provide content analysis of the equal number of articles from four major newspapers of South Korea:

1. Dong-A Ilbo

2. Chosun Ilbo

3. Korea Herald

4. Korea Times

1.1 Reflection of the main feminist agenda in the South Korean media (with the usage of maxqda)

I decided to use these media because of the wide target audience. The fact of reflection in mass-oriented media is the fact of importance of the particular topics for the wide discourse. Narrow-oriented media will be analyzed too, but in connection with the narrow activity and narrow topics, which cannot be clear for everyone. In this chapter I will make сcontent analysis with the help of the special program for content analysis – MAXQDA. For this sake I will use 20 articles from each newspaper taken in the 10 years period. With the help of MAXQDA I will provide some key “codes” for the related topic. “Codes” for the program are special words that can describe particular part of the text. In this case I will use the following codes:

• Violence (physical, sexual, psychological)

• Discrimination (gender one)

• Feminism

• Patriarchy

• Resistance (radical actions against women`s oppression/discrimination)

The statistics will be made by the program after the content analysis and the tables will be put in this work. In this chapter I will also provide the steps of the content analysis. That is for the first paragraph. In the second paragraph I will provide brief content analysis of the feminist organizations activity`s reflection in the South Korean media. In the third paragraph I will briefly analyze some articles from one South Korean journal for women.

The first thing is definition the type of sources. In this chapter I will analyze mainly short articles which can be identified as the ‘journalism of opinions” – opposite to the “journalism of facts”. The first one provides subjective opinion about a particular event or situation in a particular field. The second provides news reports on particular events and latest occasions in different fields (it is not a matter of fact, if these news reports are true or not). In this chapter I will analyze only “journalism of opinions” in connection with the main subject of my master thesis. I will take articles from 2007 till 2017 – articles from the different columns, related to the social issues (that could be – “opinion”, “society”, “people” etc. These columns are chosen because of the relation to the topic of this master thesis.

In this paragraph I will put diagrams that show the difference of attention towards different problems of the feminist agenda in different media. After that, I will make analysis on the result of MAXQDA content analysis.

For the content analysis I took 20 articles from each newspaper taken with the usage of the following phrase for search on the newspaper archives – “Korea Women”. I took 2 articles for each of ten years. All the 80 were browsed to MAXQDA and analyzed. In order to systematize the whole picture I used fragments of articles as units for the general content analysis. As I mentioned parts of articles were coded in line with the topic of the particular fragment. This fragment can consist of several sentences as well as several blocks of text.

Here I want to provide some tables with results of the MAXQDA operation. This table was made with usage of search and statistics in the program. The table shows the percentage of mentions of each words in the chosen massive of newspapers. I chose the words related to the topic of the master thesis.