Korean News Headlines with Sentiment and Metaphor Labels from March–May 2023

231 news headlines from The Chosun Ilbo Chinese Edition, collected between March and May 2023. The dataset includes manual coding for sentiment, metaphor, and country references. It was authored by XUE KUANG and published on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Training sentiment classification models based on manually labeled sentiment scores.
• Analyzing the use of metaphor in news headlines based on the metaphor coding feature.
• Studying geopolitical framing in media based on the country coding mentioned in the description.
• Conducting comparative media analysis on a specific time period (March–May 2023).

Strengths

• Includes 231 manually annotated headlines, providing a labeled corpus.
• Covers three distinct annotation dimensions: sentiment, metaphor, and country coding.
• Has a clear temporal scope of March to May 2023.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic and editorial bias inherent to a single news source.

Provenance

Source

The Chosun Ilbo Chinese Edition.

Collection Method

Likely manually coded by the author.

Time Range

March–May 2023.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-12 12:52:39; freshness should be verified.

Geography

South Korea (implied by source).