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South Korea news API
Coverage about South Korea from 476 distinct publishers, in whatever language
it was reported. Pass country=KS to filter.
What coverage of South Korea looks like
Concentrated coverage of technology manufacturing, heavy industry and regional security, with a small number of very prolific national outlets producing most of the volume.
The media landscape
A small number of national dailies and broadcasters produce most of the volume, alongside a specialist industrial press. Coverage of the major conglomerates is dense and often earlier than English-language reporting on the same announcements. Political and industrial coverage frequently overlap in ways that a subject filter alone will not separate.
Querying this market
Check outlet spread rather than article count. Semiconductor and shipbuilding reporting is domestic-first and reaches English coverage late.
GET /search?country=KS&mode=hybrid&from=2026-07-24&limit=20Identifiers are FIPS 10-4, not ISO 3166 — why that matters.
What catches people out
A small number of national outlets produce most of the volume, so outlet spread is a far better quality signal than article count. Industrial coverage — semiconductors, shipbuilding, batteries — is domestic-first and detailed, and typically reaches English-language reporting several days later in summarised form. Coverage of the large industrial groups is dense and frequently precedes English-language reporting on the same disclosures. Political and corporate reporting overlap in ways a subject filter alone will not separate, so pairing the country filter with an industry signal is usually necessary to isolate one from the other.
Recent coverage
Pulled from the index on 2026-07-31, in the language each was published in.
Who covers South Korea
The most active publisher on this country is newspim.com at roughly
6% of the coverage. Combine country with
source to narrow to publishers you trust, or with
language to separate domestic reporting from international.
newspim.com · edaily.co.kr · ohmynews.com · fnnews.com · heraldcorp.com · 163.com · womannews.net · koreatimes.com · hani.co.kr · sina.com.cn · udn.com · inews24.com · ddaily.co.kr · ltn.com.tw
What this market is best for
Best for semiconductors, shipbuilding, batteries and heavy industry, where domestic reporting leads English coverage by several days. Weakest for international affairs beyond the immediate region. A high-value narrow source rather than a general one.
Narrowing further
# domestic-language coverage only
GET /search?country=KS&language=<iso639-3>&mode=hybrid
# supply-chain risk language, about this country
GET /search?country=KS&signal=signal_supply_disruption&signal_min=0.2Counts are provisional pending a snapshot taken against the API. Outlets and headlines are real.