テレビニュースの流れにおける海外特派員の役割 : 韓国の日本支局特派員の事例研究

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to focus on the foreign correspondent in Tokyo who works for a major South Korean TV network. At a semi-structured interview, the correspondent was asked about his daily activities as a broadcaster with respect to the international flow of information from Japan. It was found that the correspondent tended to choose topics on politics and economics in response to requests from superiors at the news desk of the network. As the middle person in this routinized process, the correspondent acted as a gatekeeper, selecting and relaying topics from Japan to the South Korean audience. How those media outlets choose and report topics is a reflection of the lasting effects to mutual national images of the colonization of the Korean peninsula by Japan until the end of World War II. For the South Korean news media, monitoring and repor ting on the actions and comments by Japanese statesmen concerning worshipping at Yasukuni Shrine, revisionism in schoool textbooks, or territorial issues seem to be a high priority in selecting news reports about Japan for a Korean audience. In the daily foreign reports of Korean news programs, this kind of close observation and reporting about Japan is second only to reporting on matters related to the United States.