A Big Data Analysis of 378 KCI Articles on the Korean Wave Hallyu

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the abstracts of 378 KCI (Korea Citation Index) articles on the Korean wave Hallyu published from 2000 to 2023. A point to note is seven nouns that are made up of a sentence obtained the highest frequency (490 tokens) among 4,400 nouns. A major point of this paper is that topic 8 was the most occurred one in 378 abstracts, followed by topic 10, topic 1 (topic 12), and topic 11, in descending order. A further point to note is that the word Hallyu is deemed to be the most significant in the word cloud of 378 abstracts. With respect to piotal words, it is interesting to point out that the word Hallyu is the most central in 378 abstracts, followed by the word study, the word culture, the word result, and the word Korea, in that order. Finally, this paper argues that the word Hallyu is the highest in the degree centrality. Put differently, it has the most directly linked neighbors, thus being the highest. This in turn indicates that the word Hallyu is the most centric and pivotal in 378 abstracts.