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 20 Oct 2026Last evidence 20 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • (LEAD) Seoul stocks open sharply lower after U.S. tech sell-off

    Reported event · first reported 19 Oct 2026 to 20 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • (2nd LD) Seoul stocks slide nearly 4 pct on AI jitters, unrest in France

    Reported claim · first reported 20 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Seoul stocks extend losses late Tuesday morning amid AI concerns

    Reported claim · first reported 20 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Seoul shares narrow losses late Monday morning on institutional buying

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Seoul vows 'resolute punishment' after North Korea threatens new border measures

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

All 11 events and claims involving Seoul

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 132 mentions on 20 Oct 2026, against 106 on 29 Sept 2026 (+25%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 10 Oct 2026.
  • Claims 6 claims first reported since 19 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

3,210 documents · 184 publishers · 4% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 20 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.043: 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 StatesChinaSamsung Electro…Key FactsJapan
  • South Korea · 2,451 shared documents
  • North Korea · 938 shared documents
  • AI · 792 shared documents
  • United States · 686 shared documents
  • Myung · 623 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Lee Jae Myung · 509 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • China · 499 shared documents
  • Samsung Electronics · 485 shared documents
  • Key Facts · 483 shared documents
  • Japan · 477 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 132 mentions on 20 Oct 2026 with 106 on 29 Sept 2026 (+25%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +725% from 6 Sept 2026 to 20 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.

  • (LEAD) Seoul stocks open sharply lower after U.S. tech sell-off

    Reported event · first reported 19 Oct 2026 to 20 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    Show the 2 individual claims
    • (LEAD) Seoul shares open sharply lower after rebound amid AI concerns · reported by two · first reported 20 Oct 2026 · 2 separate publishers
    • (LEAD) Seoul stocks open sharply lower after U.S. tech sell-off · reported by two · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 2 separate publishers

  • (2nd LD) Seoul stocks slide nearly 4 pct on AI jitters, unrest in France

    Reported claim · first reported 20 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Seoul stocks extend losses late Tuesday morning amid AI concerns

    Reported claim · first reported 20 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Seoul shares narrow losses late Monday morning on institutional buying

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Seoul vows 'resolute punishment' after North Korea threatens new border measures

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Samsung to use TSMC technology for Nvidia's next-generation memory chips, Seoul newspaper reports

    Reported claim · first reported 18 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

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

    Reported claim · first reported 17 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • (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: 3 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Seoul shares rebound late Wednesday morning on tech gains

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

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Seoul

Entity.

Evidence
3,210 documents · 184 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 20 Oct 2026
Measured
4% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
20 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.

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

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
  • 53% Yes

    “Will the highest temperature in Seoul (Incheon) be 17°C on October 21?”

    Polymarket · priced 20 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 21 Oct 2026

  • 0.8% Yes

    “Will Seoul have between 50-70mm of precipitation in October?”

    Polymarket · priced 20 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 17°C on October 19?” (closed 19 Oct 2026).

What it connects to

Related records.

Pull a thread

Recorded history

No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 10 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 20 Oct 2026.