Yoon Kyong
English and Cultural Studies, University of British Columbia Okanagan, 1148 Research Rd, Kelowna, BC Canada.
East Asia (Piscataway). 2021;38(4):373-388. doi: 10.1007/s12140-021-09363-0. Epub 2021 Apr 19.
In July 2020, the South Korean government announced a 5-year, post-pandemic plan. This purportedly proactive policy aimed to advance digital and green industries to lay the groundwork for the post-pandemic era. This article examines the South Korean government's early proposal of a post-pandemic policy, titled the Korean New Deal, in order to explore how the pandemic crisis may affect the policymakers' envisioning of the post-crisis society. Moreover, the study examines how this early predictive plan may reveal the ways in which the pandemic is utilized for discursive politics. Drawing on the critical discourse analysis of policy documents and news coverage, this article questions how the "old" language of the developmental state is incorporated into the "new" policy. The study also shows how COVID-19's impacts and uncertainties are translated into political discourses.
2020年7月，韩国政府宣布了一项为期五年的疫情后计划。这项据称积极主动的政策旨在推动数字和绿色产业发展，为疫情后时代奠定基础。本文考察了韩国政府早期提出的名为“韩国新政”的疫情后政策，以探究疫情危机可能如何影响政策制定者对危机后社会的构想。此外，该研究还考察了这一早期预测性计划如何揭示利用疫情进行话语政治的方式。本文借鉴对政策文件和新闻报道的批判性话语分析，质疑发展型国家的“旧”话语是如何融入“新”政策的。该研究还展示了新冠疫情的影响和不确定性是如何转化为政治话语的。
