This article investigates from a critical discourse studies perspective the news media representations of inbound international students in Korean higher education. In light of the ideological workings of discourse and the media's social impact on the public consciousness, the current study examines the structures and detailed meanings of the media portrayals of international students as regards the three dimensions of the textual feature, discursive practice, and social practice. The findings suggest that the media representations of international students are racialized according to stratified power relations in the context of Korean higher education, and that the racialization and stratification is undergirded by neoliberal capitalist ideology of internationalization, ambivalent diversity discourse of Others, and benevolent care discourse of the minoritized. A range of discursive othering strategies are deployed in the news texts to render more newsworthy the reported issues and incidents concerning international students. The article concludes and argues that more fluid approaches to diversity should be developed to account for the complexity and multiplicity of transnational subjectivities.

Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical Framework
3. Method
    3.1. Data Collection
    3.2. Data Analysis
4. Findings
    4.1. Negative Representations of International Students
    4.2. Conflicts with Domestic Korean students
    4.3. Discourse of Care and Responsibility: Others in Need of Care
    4.4. Almost-like Korean Discourse: Model Minority Stereotypes
5. Discussion and Conclusion
References

• Jung Sook Kim(Daegu University)