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이 연구는 박종철 사건보도와 그 이후 6․29 선언까지 한국의 민주화에서 국내언론의 기여에 대한 서울시민의 평가와 집단적 기억을 분석했다. 이를 위해 윌리암스의 감정구조와 반다이크의 상황모델이란 분석틀을 사용해 박종철 사건보도와 민주화 과정에 대해 얼마나 기억하고 있는지를 설문조사했다. 서울시민은 박종철 이름을 포함해 당시 이러한 사건이 이루어진 배경에 대한 사회문화적 거대구조를 잘 기억해 냈다. 하지만 박종철 사건의 세부사항으로 갈수록 이를 기억해 내는 비율이 점차로 줄어들었다. 이러한 발견에 근거해 서울시민의 박종철 사건보도에 대한 집단적인 상황모델과 민주화에 대한 국민적인 정서구조를 분석했다. 이어 한국의 민주화 의제형성에서 언론의 역할에 대해 조명해 보았다.
Twenty years after the Korean people’s uprising against the authoritarian government in June 1987, investigative reporting of the Park Jong Chul case holds a mystic status whether it played a catalystic role in the process of South Korea’s democratic movement. One sector of a so-called progressive civilian power group has criticized that Korean mass media in general was opportunistic when they covered people’s democratic movement, even including Park’s death, in 1980s. Nevertheless, the leading elites in the field of journalism and conservatives who support press freedom have claimed that without investigative reporting of the Park case and their contributing scoops, Korean democratic movement could not have been achieved. They argue that people were able to acknowledge the military government’s violation of human rights and wrongdoing through media coverage. This research examines how the Korean citizens in Seoul have evaluated the press’s role in its coverage of the Park case and the mass media’s influence on people’s perception, feeling and situation model of the South Korea’s democratic movement. Quite far from actual performance of Korean media’s coverage of the Park case, citizens of Seoul recognize that press performed poorly in the coverage of democratic movement in 1987. Nevertheless, people acknowledge that Korean press played a pivotal role in making people informed about the government’s wrongdoing in its handling of the Park case and provided the people with a situation model of Korea’s democratization. This study discusses the theoretical implication of seemingly contradictory findings of this research and suggests possible practical ways to improve media’s performance during the societal transformation to political democracy.
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Investigative Reporting of the Park Jong Chul Case, Collective Memory, Situational Model, Structure of Feeling, Democratic Agenda Building
