Entity

Seoul

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 5 domains, including World Wires, AI Tech and Dtc.

As of 13 Oct 2026Last evidence 13 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Seoul’s plan to send medical aid to North Korea is a ‘provocation’: Kim Yo Jong

    Reported event · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 3 claims · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Seoul shares extend losses late Monday morning on tech sell-off

    Reported event · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Seoul shares extend losses late Wednesday morning as tech stocks fall

    Reported event · first reported 7 Oct 2026 to 8 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • North Korea fires 'several ballistic missiles' into Sea of Japan, Seoul's military says

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 7 separate publishers

  • Seoul’s envoy recall over North Korean POW spat draws backlash in Ukraine, ROK

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 8 events and claims involving Seoul

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 96 mentions on 13 Oct 2026, against 97 on 22 Sept 2026 (-1%).
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for Seoul yet.
  • Claims 3 claims first reported since 12 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

2,680 documents · 167 publishers · 29% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 13 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.287: about 71% of mentions carry no typed assertion

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Seoul

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

South KoreaNorth KoreaAIUnited StatesJapanNuclearKey FactsSamsung Electro…
  • South Korea · 2,067 shared documents
  • North Korea · 762 shared documents
  • AI · 605 shared documents
  • Myung · 565 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • United States · 564 shared documents
  • Lee Jae Myung · 464 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Japan · 417 shared documents
  • Nuclear · 408 shared documents
  • Key Facts · 398 shared documents
  • Samsung Electronics · 368 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

Daily mentions +773% from 29 Aug 2026 to 13 Oct 2026, between 11 and 134 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Seoul, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

No open prediction market prices a question materially about Seoul yet. Ask about Seoul

No market price on file: no prediction market prices a question about this name yet

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/e0fbb9a3a9ca2ffb2486f07f returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name seoul.

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  "outlets": 33,
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        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 351 mentions",
        "edge": "counted daily from tracked coverage; single mentions are not listed one by one"
      }
    ]
  }
}

The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving Seoul

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • Seoul’s plan to send medical aid to North Korea is a ‘provocation’: Kim Yo Jong

    Reported event · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 3 claims · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    Show the 3 individual claims
    • Seoul’s plan to send medical aid to North Korea is a ‘provocation’: Kim Yo Jong · reported by two · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 2 separate publishers
    • N. Korean leader's sister again pushes back against Seoul's medical aid offer · single source · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 separate publisher
    • N. Korea rebuffs Seoul's medical aid offer as 'insult' · single source · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 separate publisher

  • Seoul shares extend losses late Monday morning on tech sell-off

    Reported event · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    Show the 2 individual claims
    • Seoul shares extend losses late Monday morning on tech sell-off · reported by two · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 2 separate publishers
    • (2nd LD) Seoul shares plunge over 3 pct on tech sell-off amid Mideast, inflation woes · reported by two · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 2 separate publishers

  • Seoul shares extend losses late Wednesday morning as tech stocks fall

    Reported event · first reported 7 Oct 2026 to 8 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    Show the 2 individual claims
    • Seoul shares extend losses late Wednesday morning as tech stocks fall · reported by two · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 2 separate publishers
    • Seoul shares extend losses late Thursday morning amid inflation worries · reported by two · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 2 separate publishers

  • North Korea fires 'several ballistic missiles' into Sea of Japan, Seoul's military says

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 7 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Seoul’s envoy recall over North Korean POW spat draws backlash in Ukraine, ROK

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Seoul rejects Kyiv claim over helping ease Russia fuel shortage

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • (2nd LD) Seoul stocks down for 2nd day amid rising bond yields

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • (LEAD) Seoul shares open lower despite falling oil prices, bond yields

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

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Seoul

Entity.

Evidence
2,680 documents · 167 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 20 Jul 2026, last seen 13 Oct 2026
Measured
29% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
13 Oct 2026
23 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (12)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.
  • Single source: Reported by one source so far.

Situations it is named in (1)

For machines: this record as JSON

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Seoul, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

Markets materially about Seoul

Markets whose question is about Seoul or names it as a party. Each row says how the market relates to Seoul and why. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue.

No open market in the record is materially about Seoul: none names it as the subject of its question or as a party in it.

2 more open markets joined to Seoul but not about it
  • 57.5% Yes

    “Will the lowest temperature in Seoul (Incheon) be 13°C on October 14?”

    Polymarket · priced 13 Oct 2026

    Relation: about a place in it · a weather or score reading at a place: about a place at most, never about the subject · closes 14 Oct 2026

  • 39% Yes

    “Will Seoul have 85mm or more of precipitation in October?”

    Polymarket · priced 13 Oct 2026

    Relation: about a place in it · a weather or score reading at a place: about a place at most, never about the subject · closes 31 Oct 2026

1 market past its stated close date is not shown as open: “Will the highest temperature in Seoul (Incheon) be 25°C on October 11?” (closed 11 Oct 2026).

What it connects to

Related records.

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Ask about SeoulWatch Seoul

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 13 Oct 2026.