South Korea
News coverage about South Korea accounts for 3.631% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 20, 2026. Output is up 34.8% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is +0.21 — neutral-to-positive. Coverage is surging: 9.0 standard deviations above the trailing average.
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Coverage volume, last 90 days
Coverage tone, last 90 days
Event activity (CAMEO-coded)
Protests (2/day latest)
Diplomacy (53/day latest)
Coercion & force (4/day latest)
CAMEO-coded events geolocated to South Korea, counted daily from GDELT's event stream (protests: root 14; diplomacy: 04–05; coercion through mass violence: 17–20).
Coverage origin: local vs international
Over the last two weeks, 35% of the coverage about South Korea came from outlets based in South Korea — the rest was written from abroad (45,627 articles with a known outlet home country).
Share of articles about South Korea produced by domestic outlets, computed daily across GDELT's English and translated streams. Outlet home countries are mapped per news domain (GDELT source-country data); articles from unmapped outlets are excluded from the denominator. A very low share during major events can mean the story is being told about a place rather than from it.
Most-mentioned places
- Seoul (375)
- Busan (116)
- Honam (79)
- Incheon (61)
- Yongsan (30)
- Jeju (15)
- Chungnam (11)
- Changwon (9)
- Seocho (9)
- Chungbuk (8)
- Naju (7)
- Kim Dong (4)
Places named in coverage about South Korea on 2026-08-20 (GDELT location extraction; article counts).
Active topics in coverage about South Korea
Country indicators
Displacement, end of 2025
Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder, year-end 2025 stocks, plus 248 stateless persons. IDP figures cover conflict-displaced populations reported to UNHCR.
Monitored relationships
Each link opens the bilateral co-coverage dashboard for the pair.
Coverage share measures articles published by South Korea-based outlets as a share of all GDELT-monitored coverage — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).