Entity

South Korea

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 13 domains, including World Wires, AI Tech and Weather Climate.

As of 11 Oct 2026Last evidence 11 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Spy agency denies report U.S. only shares intelligence on N.K. missiles with S. Korea

    Reported claim · first reported 11 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • South Korea test-flies its first domestically developed hypersonic weapon

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • South Korea recalls ambassador to Ukraine over North Korean POW spat

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

  • US keeps S. Korea in Tier 1 group for human trafficking elimination efforts for 3rd straight year

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • (LEAD) S. Korea to recall envoy to Ukraine amid dispute over disclosure of N.K. POWs

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 12 events and claims involving South Korea

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 196 mentions on 11 Oct 2026, against 202 on 20 Sept 2026 (-3%).
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for South Korea yet.
  • Claims 1 claim first reported since 10 Oct 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “Lee Jae-myung out as president of South Korea in 2026?” moved from 9% to 6% Yes since 27 Aug 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

5,232 documents · 326 publishers · 26% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 11 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.263: about 74% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 1 receipt withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside South Korea

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.

SeoulJapanChinaAINorth KoreaUnited StatesAsian GamesGold
  • Seoul · 1,936 shared documents
  • Japan · 1,638 shared documents
  • China · 1,569 shared documents
  • Asian · 1,215 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • AI · 1,187 shared documents
  • North Korea · 1,008 shared documents
  • United States · 1,003 shared documents
  • Asian Games · 739 shared documents
  • Myung · 661 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Gold · 653 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

Daily mentions +263% from 27 Aug 2026 to 11 Oct 2026, between 20 and 289 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions South Korea, day by day.

Market price, cited

6% Yes

priced 11 Oct 2026 · relation: named in the question

the market: 9% → 6% Yes (-3pts, from 30 Aug 2026 to 11 Oct 2026)

on “Lee Jae-myung out as president of South Korea in 2026?”

The day’s closing price on this market, and how it moved. The number is the market’s own. Ask about South Korea

“Lee Jae-myung out as president of South Korea in 2026?”: the market's own price; the venue link is not stored with it

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/92234c38607b5422cca4972c returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name south korea.

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  "domains": 13,
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    "knowledgeCutoff": "2026-10-11T15:55:28.075824+00:00",
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  },
  "coverageTrend": "rising",
  "marketPrice": {
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    "yesPct": 6,
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  "whereFrom": {
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    "children": [
      {
        "level": "reports",
        "label": "6 reports drawn on this page, each with its link",
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        }
      },
      {
        "level": "domains",
        "label": "13 coverage domains",
        "children": {
          "count": 13,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 1,080 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 South Korea

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.

  • Spy agency denies report U.S. only shares intelligence on N.K. missiles with S. Korea

    Reported claim · first reported 11 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • South Korea test-flies its first domestically developed hypersonic weapon

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • South Korea recalls ambassador to Ukraine over North Korean POW spat

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • US keeps S. Korea in Tier 1 group for human trafficking elimination efforts for 3rd straight year

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • (LEAD) S. Korea to recall envoy to Ukraine amid dispute over disclosure of N.K. POWs

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • South Korea unveils US$747 billion energy transition plan through 2035

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • S. Korea plans shipment of medical equipment to N.K. hospital next month

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

    corroborated

  • ‘Diverging’ trajectories: Taiwan dethrones South Korea atop global markets as AI trade widens

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • North Korea warns of stronger action toward South Korea over mine blast accusations

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • South Korea Rejects Ukrainian Claim That Fuel Shipments Eased Russia’s Fuel Crisis

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • President of South Korea believes AI models were used in bank hacks

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Korea's $449 bil. crypto economy leads in East Asia: Chainalysis

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

Walk the record from South Korea

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South Korea

Entity.

Evidence
5,232 documents · 326 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 4 May 2026, last seen 11 Oct 2026
Measured
26% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
11 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.

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 South Korea, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

Other markets materially about South Korea

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

What it connects to

Related records.

Pull a thread

Ask about South KoreaWatch South Korea

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 11 Oct 2026.