Load the South Korean Party Statements corpus — load_party

Loads the party statements dataset (2003–2022) as a data.table. The dataset contains 82,723 official statements from party spokespersons and leadership meeting minutes from South Korea's two major political parties.

Usage

load_party_statements(path = NULL, cache = TRUE, refresh = FALSE)

Arguments

path: Character; path to a local CSV file. If NULL (default), the bundled dataset is used.
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.

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

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Load with default caching
ps <- load_party_statements()

# Force refresh
ps <- load_party_statements(refresh = TRUE)
} # }