ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how Korean development discourse perceives neighboring China and Japan, and defines self-national identity in relation to them. It investigates how those three Northeast Asian countries are identified and represented in the Chinese and Japanese discourses of development from a comparative perspective. The chapter analyzes the texts of major Korean newspaper editorials. It focuses on how the identities and representations of Korea are constructed in relation to those of China and Japan. The chapter examines how the identities and representations of Korea, China, and Japan are constructed in relation to Korean seonjinguk discourse. It analyzes the main characteristics of Japan appearing in the sentences of the newspaper editorials. The chapter shows that the highest number of cases mentions Japan as a country possessing "advanced technology." It examines how Korean major newspapers identify and represent Korea, China, and Japan in relation to the discourse of seonjinguk.
