Topic Modeling Analysis of Childrens Food Safety Management Using BigKinds News Big Data: Comparing the Implementation Times of the Comprehensive Plan for Childrens Dietary Safety Management

As digital technologies and food environments evolve, ensuring children’s food safety has become a pressing public health priority. This study examines how the policy discourse on children’s dietary safety in Korea has shifted over time by applying Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling to news articles from 2010 to 2024. Using a large-scale news database (BigKinds), the analysis identifies seven key themes that have emerged across fi ve phases of the national Comprehensive Plans for...