Analysis of Media Coverage of Foreign Students During the Pandemic

Objectives This study aims to analyze the media coverage of foreign students during the pandemic. Methods For this purpose, we used the Korea Press Foundation's Big Kinds to search for articles dealing with foreign students from January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2022, and analyzed them using text mining techniques. Results As a result, the foreign students seen in the media during the pandemic were people of ‘concern’ for spreading the infectious disease and people of ‘concern’ for not being able to fill the university’s quota. Conclusions Since foreign students are necessary members of our society in the future, the media should be careful not to make them appear as objects of ‘concern’, ‘hatred’, anxiety’ or ‘discrimination’.