Entity

South Korea

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 56 coverage verticals, including South Korea, Auto and India South Asia.

As of 31 Oct 2026Last evidence 31 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • (LEAD) Defense chiefs of S. Korea, U.S. to hold talks in Philippines ahead of ASEAN meeting

    Reported event · first reported 27 Oct 2026 to 28 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • (LEAD) Top diplomats of S. Korea, U.S., Japan to discuss N. Korea, trilateral cooperation

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

  • N. Korea slams S. Korea, U.S.' Freedom Flag air drills, vows to deter with force

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • S. Korea, U.S. stage tabletop drills on integrating conventional, nuclear capabilities against N. Korean threats

    Reported claim · first reported 29 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • North Korea fires 'around a dozen' ballistic missiles amid rising tensions with South Korea

    Reported claim · first reported 29 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

All 11 events and claims involving South Korea

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 200 mentions on 31 Oct 2026, against 175 on 10 Oct 2026 (+14%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 19 Oct 2026.
  • Claims 2 claims first reported since 30 Oct 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “U.S. agrees to a new trade deal with "South Korea" before 2027?” moved from 16% to 20% Yes since 16 Sept 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

8,978 documents · 408 publishers · 6% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 31 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.055: about 95% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 4 receipts 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.

SeoulChinaJapanAINorth KoreaUnited StatesTrumpImmigration
  • Seoul · 3,116 shared documents
  • China · 2,585 shared documents
  • Japan · 2,494 shared documents
  • AI · 2,451 shared documents
  • North Korea · 1,738 shared documents
  • United States · 1,678 shared documents
  • Asian · 1,660 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Trump · 1,065 shared documents
  • Semiconductor · 1,029 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Immigration · 1,028 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 200 mentions on 31 Oct 2026 with 175 on 10 Oct 2026 (+14%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +9% from 16 Sept 2026 to 31 Oct 2026, between 119 and 313 a day

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

Market price, cited

20% Yes

priced 30 Oct 2026 · relation: named in the question

the market: 16% → 20% Yes (+4pts, from 17 Sept 2026 to 30 Oct 2026)

on “U.S. agrees to a new trade deal with "South Korea" before 2027?”

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

“U.S. agrees to a new trade deal with "South Korea" before 2027?”: 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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    "knowledgeCutoff": "2026-10-31T17:19:48.554616+00:00",
    "snapshot": "this deploy's committed data files (commit not exposed in this runtime)"
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  "coverageTrend": "rising",
  "marketPrice": {
    "question": "U.S. agrees to a new trade deal with \"South Korea\" before 2027?",
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    "changes": 0
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    "children": [
      {
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        }
      },
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        "edge": "counted daily from tracked coverage; single mentions are not listed one by one"
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  }
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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.

  • (LEAD) Defense chiefs of S. Korea, U.S. to hold talks in Philippines ahead of ASEAN meeting

    Reported event · first reported 27 Oct 2026 to 28 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    Show the 2 individual claims
    • (LEAD) Defense chiefs of S. Korea, U.S. to hold talks in Philippines ahead of ASEAN meeting · corroborated · first reported 27 Oct 2026 · 3 separate publishers
    • Defense chiefs of S. Korea, U.S. hold talks on OPCON transfer, alliance · reported by two · first reported 28 Oct 2026 · 2 separate publishers

  • (LEAD) Top diplomats of S. Korea, U.S., Japan to discuss N. Korea, trilateral cooperation

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • N. Korea slams S. Korea, U.S.' Freedom Flag air drills, vows to deter with force

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • S. Korea, U.S. stage tabletop drills on integrating conventional, nuclear capabilities against N. Korean threats

    Reported claim · first reported 29 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • North Korea fires 'around a dozen' ballistic missiles amid rising tensions with South Korea

    Reported claim · first reported 29 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Bithumb hacked through employee system as South Korean financial firms face cyberattacks

    Reported claim · first reported 28 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • S. Korea accepts int'l arbitration in favor of Elliott in Samsung merger case

    Reported claim · first reported 28 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • S. Korea, U.S., partners reaffirm N. Korea denuclearization goal, back sanctions enforcement

    Reported claim · first reported 28 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • South Korea Plans to Deploy 1,700 AI Robots Across Public Sector in 2027

    Reported claim · first reported 28 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Tensions high as North Korea howitzer spotted near South Korean border

    Reported claim · first reported 26 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • South Korea set to delay crypto gains tax to 2029, marking fourth postponement since 2020

    Reported claim · first reported 25 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 7 separate publishers

    corroborated

Walk the record from South Korea

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South Korea

Entity.

Evidence
8,978 documents · 408 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 31 Oct 2026
Measured
6% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
31 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

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names South Korea, 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.

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.

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Recorded history

No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 19 Oct 2026.

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 31 Oct 2026.