Load the South Korean Party Statements corpus — load_party

Loads the party statements dataset (2003–2022) as a data.table. The dataset contains 83,201 official statements from party spokespersons and leadership meeting minutes from South Korea's two major political parties.

Usage

load_party_statements(
  path = NULL,
  format = c("parquet", "csv"),
  cache = TRUE,
  refresh = FALSE,
  data_version = NULL
)

Arguments

path: Character; path to a local CSV or Parquet file. If NULL (default), a managed artifact is used. If a managed download would be required, it is only attempted in an interactive session.
format: Character; requested storage format. Defaults to preferring "parquet" and falling back to "csv" when necessary.
cache: Logical; if TRUE (default), the data is cached as an RDS file in the user's cache directory for faster subsequent loads.
refresh: Logical; if TRUE, any existing cache is ignored and the source CSV is re-read. Defaults to FALSE.
data_version: Character or NULL; the data artifact version to load. Defaults to the latest available version.

Value

A data.table::data.table with the following columns:

Column	Description
`no`	Row number / identifier
`year`	Year of the statement
`ymd`	Full date (YYYY-MM-DD)
`title`	Title of the statement
`text`	Full text of the statement
`filtered`	Filtered/preprocessed text indicator
`partisan`	Party affiliation label
`conservative`	Conservative party indicator
`id`	Unique document identifier

See data_dictionary.md for the complete column reference, and the Data Descriptor (Table 9) for yearly entry counts by party.

Details

For full methodology and variable descriptions, see the Data Descriptor: Lim, T.H. (2025). Scientific Data, 12, 1030. doi:10.1038/s41597-025-05220-4

Examples

path <- tempfile(fileext = ".csv")
data.table::fwrite(
  data.table::data.table(
    year = 2020L,
    id = "ps-1",
    text = "statement text"
  ),
  path
)

ps <- load_party_statements(path = path, cache = FALSE)
#> Local file extension suggests format 'csv'; using that instead of requested 'parquet'.
ps
#>     year     id           text
#>    <int> <char>         <char>
#> 1:  2020   ps-1 statement text