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Kim, So-hee & Kang, Beom-mo. 2015. Characteristics and Changes of Hard News and Soft News in Newspaper Style - A Comparison of Politics, Economy, Society, and Culture News Corpora in the Early 2000s and the Early 2010s. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 40-1, 41-66. This paper aims to identify stylistic characteristics of hard news and soft news and to examine the stylistic changes of the news in recent years. In order to do this, we analyzed a large corpus (about 150 million words) statistically. We first classified a news corpus(Trend21) into two groups representing hard news and soft news (political/economic/social subjects vs. cultural subjects). Each group was classified again by the year of issue - the early 2000s and the early 2010s. And then, we extracted keywords from each group by means of keyword analysis. Finally, we conducted correspondence analysis and observed the result in a two-dimensional domain. We particularly focused on linguistic features which show stylistic characteristics of written and spoken language such as verbs and adjectives, predicate nouns (mostly Sino-Korean), personal pronouns, degree verbs (with empathic meanings). The result shows that the style of hard news is relatively similar to written language whereas the style of soft news is similar to spoken language. It also shows some stylistic changes in the news on political, economic and social affairs. The tendency is that hard news has become closer to soft news in style. (Korea University)