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4 January 2024 Analyzing Social Discourse and Marine Leisure Safety in Korea to Help Establish a Safety Management System
Nam-Gyu Kim
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Kim, N.-G., 2023. Analyzing social discourse and marine leisure safety in Korea to help establish a safety management system. In: Lee, J.L.; Lee, H.; Min, B.I.; Chang, J.-I.; Cho, G.T.; Yoon, J.-S., and Lee, J. (eds.), Multidisciplinary Approaches to Coastal and Marine Management. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 116, pp. 448-452. Charlotte (North Carolina), ISSN 0749-0208.

This study uses text mining, a method for analyzing massive amounts of data, of 3,449 media articles to identify changes in the social discourse surrounding marine leisure safety in Korea. The results showed that “Safety,” “Leisure,” “Marine,” and “Accident” were the keywords. These were compared over time to understand the changes in social discourse related to marine leisure safety. The results showed that the keywords were stable over time, with some differences due to which the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to huge changes in the marine leisure industry in Korea. Second, topic modeling analysis derived eight topics: “Safety Education,” “Natural Disaster,” “Increasing Leisure Population,” “Rescue Activities,” “Accident Prevention,” “High-Tech Safety,” “Tourism,” and “System Establishment.” These key topics changed in proportion before and after the COVID-19 pandemic, which revealed how the discourse over safety has shifted.

Nam-Gyu Kim "Analyzing Social Discourse and Marine Leisure Safety in Korea to Help Establish a Safety Management System," Journal of Coastal Research 116(sp1), 448-452, (4 January 2024). https://doi.org/10.2112/JCR-SI116-091.1
Received: 6 March 2023; Accepted: 21 April 2023; Published: 4 January 2024
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bigdata
Marine leisure safety
Text mining
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