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This paper describes an analysis of 476,589 word corpus of news articles from American newspapers which deal with the topic of Korea. In order to analyze reports of Korea in the news, the focus was put on a keyword analysis. The keywordlist was made using a reference corpus made of news articles that refer to the U.S. from American newspapers. In order for an investigation on the contents of the target corpus, the keywords were categorized under specific topics. It was found that the keywords from Korea-related news tended to be grouped under the following seven topic categories: North Korea’s nuclear weapon, the division of North and South Korea, countermeasures against the nuclear weapon, neighboring countries, political leaders, the Korean culture, and other topics. This research would argue that the first four topics among the seven can be evaluated negatively, and that American readers may associate these negatively categorized lexes with Korea. As a result, it can be argued that the readers may develop negative prejudice against Korea.