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Abstract

This paper is concerned with news coverage frames of the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ in Korea. Through analyzing the themes like drone, AI (AI), big data and IoT (IoT), the study tries to figure out the characteristics and trends of Korean news frame about the Fourth Industrial Revolution. For this purpose, we extracted related contents and keywords in Korean media from Jan 1st, 2012 to Dec 31st, 2016 on a yearly bias. The data was analyzed using Korean language analysis program, Textom, and network analysis program, Nodexl. According to the results, it was found that there were different frame types for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in each year period from 2012 to 2016. In specific, the focus of the keywords ‘drone’ and ‘AI’ shifted from an ‘attack’ frame and ‘leisure’ frame to an ‘industry’ frame, while keywords ‘big data’ and ‘IoT’ had no major changes and consistently maintained one frame. However, entering 2016, a new frame may be trending as new media vocabulary related to ‘big data’ and ‘IoT’ continues to emerge.