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Country filterSouth 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.
Does this cover articles published in South Korea, or about it?
About it. The country filter matches the places an article is about, so a wire
piece about South Korea filed from London is in scope and a South Korea outlet writing
about somewhere else is not. To filter by where the publisher is based, use
publisher_country instead, and combine the two when you want domestic
reporting about the domestic market.
How do I filter news to South Korea?
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 with South Korea coverage?
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.
- Targeted Cooling Enhances Liquid-Hydrogen Insulation
- Nifty IT stocks rebound in July as semiconductor shares falter; reverse AI trade at play?
- Seoul Tech Unveils Energy-Saving TPMS Feet for Robots
- Parliamentary panel recommends sending envoys to North, South Poles
- Pusan University Boosts Solar Desalination Tech
- D&D Star Wars revealed for 2027, but fans worry this means a beloved RPG is dead
- North Korea State Media Says US Forces' Japan Expansion Raises Risk of Korean Peninsula Clash
- South Korea's Kospi index jumps nearly 18% on a surge in chipmaking stocks | World News
Which outlets cover South Korea most?
The most active publisher on this country is newspim.com at roughly
6% of the coverage, and the three busiest
— newspim.com, edaily.co.kr, ohmynews.com — carry about 12% between them.
That share is worth reading before the volume figure: concentrated coverage
means a large result count can still be a small number of newsrooms. 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
Two constraints do most of the work on this axis. Adding a language separates domestic reporting from international commentary about South Korea, which an unscoped country query returns together. Adding a signal range with a lower bound narrows to articles written in a particular register — supply disruption, financial stress, conflict — rather than to articles that merely mention the subject.
# 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.