Analysing Tourism through News Coverage: Focusing on the Text-mining of the Japan Trip of Republic of Korea

Abstract

This study attempted to investigate the perception on the news coverage regarding bilateral tourism between Republic of Korea and Japan. Bilateral tourism between two countries had expanded affected by social circumstances including economic, diplomacy and culture. In particular, the media became one of the important variables with the diversification of media channels. Among various channels, news contains various information related to the tourism. As an case study, news data in South Korea regarding Japan trip was examined by applying text-mining. This paper tried to provide the recent phenomenon based on the quantitative method in terms of communication between two countries.