This study investigates how the term burnout was framed, transformed, and made to function in Korean public discourse from 2010 to 2024. Drawing on 9,206 news articles retrieved from the BigKinds database, the research applies an integrated analytical framework combining Entman’s (1993) four framing functions with Leventhal’s Common-Sense Model (CSM) of illness representation. Five dominant frames —medicalisation, individualisation, normalisation, risk framing, and metaphorisation— were identified through quantitative content analysis and qualitative coding with MAXQDA 2024 (qualitative and mixed-methods analysis software). Results show a marked shift from a medicalised frame in Period 1 (2010-2015) to an increasingly normalised frame in Period 3 (2021-2024), indicating a recontextualisation of burnout from an individual pathological condition to a shared everyday experience. Statistical analyses, including chi-square tests, interrupted time series analysis, and keyword network mapping, reveal significant temporal changes in frame distribution, functional complexity, and co-occurrence patterns. The framing functions were found to systematically structure CSM dimensions, shaping public perceptions of identity, causation, temporality, consequences, and controllability. These findings demonstrate that the reframing of burnout reflects not only shifts in linguistic representation but also broader socio-cultural and political reconfigurations, with implications for health communication, organisational policy, and public health strategies.

Kong Na-hyung, Ju Hyang-a, Gim Joo-sung, Sohn Dong-wook and Son Hyun-jung. 2013. Study on the Korean language education policies for foreign migrant workers based on the accessibility to the educational facilities. The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea 21(3). This study focuses on the problem of Korean linguistics as social integration policy for foreign migrant workers. Particularly, we look into Korean Immigration & Integration Program(KIIP) to find out how foreign migrant workers can learn Korean language more effectively. In order to analyze the actual conditions of Korean language education for the foreign migrant workers, we adopt linguistic typological methods using Geographic Information System(GIS). Using GIS, we present the spread of the foreign migrant workers population and educational facilities enforcing the KIIP program. We also show some possibilities to improve the educational environment for foreign migrant workers such as the flexibility of class schedules, revision of textbooks and compensation of government. (112 words)

Kim Ha-soo, Ju Hyang-a, Son Hyun-jung, Kong Nah-yung. 2012. Geographic Information System(GIS) and sociolinguistic factors- study on the information of Korean language education. The sociolinguistic Journal of Korean 20(2). pp. 185-211. In sociolinguistic research, it has been found that linguistic phenomena are influenced more by extralinguistic factors than intralinguistic ones. In particular, issues such as language policy, language contact, langage extinction and language variation are strongly affected by geographical characteristics of the region where a language is being used and taught. In order to analyze linguistic phenomena and geographical characteristics synthetically, we introduce linguistic typological methods using Geographic Information System (GIS), an automated system for the capture, storage, retrieval, analysis and display of spacial data. Using GIS, we present some maps of the geographical distribution of foreigners living in Korea and the educational institutions of Korean language for foreigners in order to discuss the regional conditions for Korean language education in these areas. We also examine married immigrant women's accessibility to multi-cultural support centers with GIS.