Abstract

This study aims to analyze an over-the-top (OTT) platform drama, Juvenile Justice, featuring the “law-breaching minors” dispute, which will help explore how the issues of “law-breaching minors” and juvenile delinquency in Naver and Daum news portal reports are conveyed and understood. This study employed keyword frequency, centrality, cluster, and frame analyses through semantic network analysis. The results demonstrated that some frames were revealed differently in the Naver and in the Daum news portal reports of the drama, while having “conflict and responsibility,” “solutions,” and “information offering of a drama” frames in common for both news portals. A “causes and reasons” frame was added in the Naver report, and a “global popularity” subframe, as an independent cluster, was classified in the Daum report. This means that, in the Naver report, news articles in relation to “law-breaching minor” issues were more intensively reported than drama content with comparison to the Daum report, which indicates different standards of news values between news portals. Therefore, this study showed that the application of news frame analysis of news portal reports on a specific dispute, using semantic network analysis, displayed significant differences according to their different perspectives and contexts.