Reaching for the past: North Korea’s engagement with Koreans in Japan

Figures & data

Table 1. Text corpus description of Choson Sinbo website sections.

Sections		Korean		Japanese
		Years	Articles	Years	Articles
Community news	Community information	2011	1,601	1997	766
	Community rights and welfare	2010	140	2005	346
Ethnic education	Ethnic education information	2019	201	2020	192
	Ethnic education rights	2020	46	2020	185
Visiting homeland		2019	66	2020	9
Total			2,054		1,498

Note: Years indicate from when the articles were uploaded. The updated date of the latest articles in the text corpus is March 14th, 2022. For detailed explanation of the sections, see Appendix.

Figure 1. Frequency of article types.

Note: Author made the figure based on merged articles in both Korean and Japanese.

Figure 2. Top ten words in community sections.

Note: Author utilized the English text corpus of Choson Sinbo.

Figure 3. Top ten words in ethnic education sections.

Note: Author utilized the English text corpus of Choson Sinbo.

Figure 4. Activity frequency of Chongryon branches.

Note: The authors have counted the frequency reference percentage inductively based on the branch name in the text corpus of Choson Sinbo.

Figure 5. Frequency of organizations.

Note: Author utilized the Korean text corpus of Choson Sinbo.

Figure 6. Chongryon’s Idealized Social Life.

Note: Lines indicate associative relationships, and arrow lines mean an influence relationship. Gray boxes indicate Chongryon’s official organizations and white boxes mean specialized groups. The number presented indicates the frequency of concurrent mentions of the two institutions (or activities) within articles from the Choson Sinbo. For detailed coding information, see Appendix.