Entity

Seoul

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

As of 17 Oct 2026Last evidence 17 Oct 2026

What is happening now

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

    Reported event · first reported 12 Oct 2026 to 14 Oct 2026 · 3 claims · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • (2nd LD) Seoul shares crash over 7 pct on chip rout amid AI, inflation woes

    Reported event · first reported 15 Oct 2026 to 16 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • Seoul Voices "Disappointment and Regret" Over Takaichi's Yasukuni Offering

    Reported claim · first reported 17 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Pyongyang rejects Seoul's hypersonic test claims, justifies own arms buildup

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • (LEAD) Seoul stocks open sharply lower on lingering concerns over AI, U.S. inflation

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 9 events and claims involving Seoul

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 63 mentions on 17 Oct 2026, against 34 on 26 Sept 2026 (+85%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 7 Oct 2026.
  • Claims 3 claims first reported since 16 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

3,003 documents · 177 publishers · 5% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 17 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.045: about 96% 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 StatesChinaJapanNuclearSamsung Electro…
  • South Korea · 2,298 shared documents
  • North Korea · 875 shared documents
  • AI · 731 shared documents
  • United States · 653 shared documents
  • Myung · 605 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Lee Jae Myung · 493 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • China · 464 shared documents
  • Japan · 452 shared documents
  • Nuclear · 452 shared documents
  • Samsung Electronics · 444 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 63 mentions on 17 Oct 2026 with 34 on 26 Sept 2026 (+85%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +215% from 4 Sept 2026 to 17 Oct 2026, between 16 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

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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 shares extend losses late Monday morning on tech sell-off

    Reported event · first reported 12 Oct 2026 to 14 Oct 2026 · 3 claims · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    Show the 3 individual claims
    • Seoul shares rebound late Wednesday morning on tech gains · reported by two · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 2 separate publishers
    • 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

  • (2nd LD) Seoul shares crash over 7 pct on chip rout amid AI, inflation woes

    Reported event · first reported 15 Oct 2026 to 16 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    Show the 2 individual claims
    • (2nd LD) Seoul stocks rebound over 2 pct on eased chip rout, Fed bets · single source · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 separate publisher
    • (2nd LD) Seoul shares crash over 7 pct on chip rout amid AI, inflation woes · single source · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 separate publisher

  • Seoul Voices "Disappointment and Regret" Over Takaichi's Yasukuni Offering

    Reported claim · first reported 17 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Pyongyang rejects Seoul's hypersonic test claims, justifies own arms buildup

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • (LEAD) Seoul stocks open sharply lower on lingering concerns over AI, U.S. inflation

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Seoul seeks way out of N. Korean POW dispute with Ukraine as apology standoff persists

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Defense ministry refutes Pyongyang's claim questioning Seoul's test of hypersonic glide vehicle

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • (LEAD) Seoul shares start higher despite Wall Street losses, AI concerns

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • 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: 8 separate publishers

    corroborated

Walk the record from Seoul

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Seoul

Entity.

Evidence
3,003 documents · 177 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 17 Oct 2026
Measured
5% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
17 Oct 2026
22 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 (0)

none on file at this cutoff

For machines: this record as JSON

Watch this

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
  • 4.5% Yes

    “Will the lowest temperature in Seoul (Incheon) be 14°C on October 18?”

    Polymarket · priced 17 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 18 Oct 2026

  • 44% Yes

    “Will the highest temperature in Seoul (Incheon) be 26°C on October 17?”

    Polymarket · priced 17 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 17 Oct 2026

1 market past its stated close date is not shown as open: “Will the lowest temperature in Seoul (Incheon) be 13°C on October 14?” (closed 14 Oct 2026).

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 7 Oct 2026.

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 17 Oct 2026.