Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine public discourse on the Dongdaemun Design Plaza project by analysing the newspaper articles related with the project. After collecting 450 articles from the 9 newspapers for 65 months, the map of 99 words were created by network analysis especially during 3 peaks each. The primary issues about the preservation of the old stadium, the restoration of historical remains, and excess expenditures for municipal construction works were discussed during each peak. The issues were actually related with the specific building design. However, the building in the newspaper articles was treated as a whole, so it was not considered as the object which was modifiable as a part. There were few articles which treated the building design and there were few articles in which the building issues were connected with the primary issues. Finally, when the project was branded as 'big-ticket municipal construction works' in the latter part of the project, public discourse about the issue was far away from design issues. All these aspects could be catched with network analysis synthetically.