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KMID : 0606019950010010077
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Soonchunhyang Journal of Industrial Medicine
1995 Volume.1 No. 1 p.77 ~ p.94
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A Study on the Press Report of mass media on the Environmental and the Industrial health Issues in Korea
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Abstract
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Rapid industrialization and the increase of public awareness of decreasing availability of natural resources in the confined world for the future use has brought great attention in the environmental and industrial health issues which were
regarded
as
very low priority national problems in the past and often regarded as a unavoidable unwanted side-products of national development in the past. Rencently the necessity of environmental protection for the conservation of our earth for future is
one
of
most important issues we must solve. Accordingly, environmental and industrial health issues have been appeared more frequently in mass media recently than last decade. The evaluation of articles on these issues appeared in domestic mass media
will
provide better understanding for the future approach of environmental protection and healthful living of workers. As a port of evaluation, various information reported by domestic mass media about environmental and health issues are classified in
terms
of frequency of reporting, type of issues, sources of information and other, related variables. Authors collected and analyzed all the reports on water and air pollution, waste products disposal, noise and vibration, and occupational disease from
the
five major domestic daily newspapers and the two TV broadcasting corporations. The newspapers selected for our study were HanGyeRe Shinmun. Dong-A Ilbo, Cho Sun Ilbo, Han Kook Ilbo, and Joong Do Ilbo which were published from January 1992 to June
1993.
The TV broadcasting corporations were Korea Broadcasting Corporation (KBS) and Munwha Broadcasting Corporation(MBC). During one and half year of study period 1, 475 reports were collected from 5 domestic daily newspapers and two TV broadcasting
corporations.
@ES The results are as follows :
@EN 1. Cho Sun Ilbo reported most frequently on environmental and occupational health issues(305 cases) among 5 domestic daily newspapers, and on the other hand, KBS reported more cases on these issues than MBC.
2. While the most frequent topic among 6 sub classification of topics such as quality of water, air, waste, noise & vibration, occupational diseases and general environmental issues was general environmental issues (462 cases: 31.3%), the next
one
was
water pollution(368 cases: 25%). On the other hand, the issues on waste material(312 cases: 21.2%), air pollution(189 cases: 12.8%), occupational diseases(111 cases: 7.53%) and noise & vibration(33 cases: 2.24%) were appeared in decreasing order.
3. Whine the home sewage disposal was appeared in 25.7 percents of total reports on water pollution and revealed as a most important cause of this issue, Soot and smoke(SO2)from factories and motor vehicles (39.6%) for the category of air
pollution,
home wastes products (59.6%) for that of waste material, CS2(30.1%) for that of occupational disease and noise & vibration from construction fields for that of noise & vibration were classified as most important cause of each issues respectively.
4. The frequency of reports on the environmental and occupational health issues were differed by each newspaper and TV broadcasting corporation. While Cho Sun Ilbo produced more reports on air pollution and waste disposal than other mass media,
HanGyeRe produced more reports on occupational diseases than other mass media in terms of cases. On the other hand, general environmental policies was the more frequent issues in Han Kook Ilbo, Dong A Ilbo and MBC than other mass media. But
JoonDo
Ilbo
and KBS reported more frequently on the issue of the quality of water than other mass media.
5. While the environmental and occupational health issues was appeared most frequently in the page of society(30.0%), they were appeared in the page of Synthesis 2 Page(11.9%), Environment Page(11.0%) and page of editorial and explanation
platform
(10.8%). The attitude of mass media dealing with environmental and occupational issues were differed and the allocation of the page on these issues were differed by each mass media. It was revealed that HanGyeRe put their emphasis on
environmental
contamination with using various -pages of editorial, explanation platform, planning pages, critical discussion section. On the other hand, Cho Sun Ilbo and Dong A Ilbo specially prepared environmental section per week to deal with concerned
issues.
6. While domestic daily newspapers obtained most frequently their information of reports on environmental and occupational issues from research papers, two TV broadcasting corporation obtained their source of issues from their own observation
with
the
comparison of the foreign country data.
7. Planned reports consisted of 262 campaign and 11 special planned reports. Among 262 campaign, Cho Sun Ilbo and KBS reports 153 cases and 82 respectively. 11 special planned reports were produced only by HanGyeRe(1 cases), KBS(6 cases) and
MBC(4
cases). While the most frequent topics of environmental and occupational issues in the 262 campaign was waste disposal, environmental policy was the most frequent topic in special planned reports.
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