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This study compared news related to ‘education’ and ‘learning’ reported on KBS News 7 and NHK News 7 during the first half of 2025. By doing so, it examined how the public broadcasting systems of South Korea and Japan portray education and learning, and what cultural values and linguistic customs underlie their modes of expression. The analysis revealed that while both broadcasters addressed ‘education’ within the macroscopic framework of institutions, policies, budgets, and politics, there were distinct differences in the way they deployed this framework and the meaning they assigned to ‘learning’. KBS tended to frame education as a ‘sphere of institution, management, and competition’, whereas NHK News showed a strong tendency to construct education as a ‘sphere of life, narrative, and welfare’. This is considered to reflect differences in the cultural value systems of the two countries. In essence, the two public broadcasters convey the same concepts of ‘education’ and ‘learning’ but reveal different underlying social values, linguistic perspectives, and cultural viewpoints. Notably, a key finding was the concrete demonstration that the distinction between ‘Gakushu(学習)’ and ‘Manabi(学び), a concept discussed in the fields of pedagogy and philosophy, consistently functioned at the level of vocabulary use and framing in NHK’s public broadcast news―a mass and everyday media text. In NHK News 7, ‘Gakushu’ was associated with institutionalized curricula and exam preparation, such as national curriculum guidelines or online learning, while ‘Manabi’ was selectively used to depict scenes of individual internal experience and ethical/existential growth, such as experiences of disaster, illness, or lessons concerning peace and environmental issues.