News from South Korea
505,659 news articles from publishers in South Korea, searchable now through a free API that needs no key.
The busiest publisher in this slice is www.pedien.com with 51,056 articles, 10.1% of the total, followed by www.segye.com, www.newspim.com. By language it splits into Korean (464,986), English (35,311), Chinese (1,765) and 8 more. Daily volume averages about 6,980 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 9,339 on 2026-10-15.
Fetch it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=KR&date=today&sort=date&size=20"No API key, no signup, no quota. The response carries the headline, description,
publisher, publication time and the original URL for every article, and the full body text
if you ask for it with full_text=true.
Count it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?country=KR&top=20"Returns exactly the breakdown shown on this page: which publishers, which languages, and how the volume splits across the last 90 days. About 200 tokens, which makes it the cheapest way for an agent to decide whether this slice is worth reading.
Country is inferred, not declared. Before counting South Korea articles, read
country_source — and add
strict_country=true to exclude values derived from an en-US
template default.
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=KR&strict_country=true&date=today&size=20"Latest from this slice
The newest articles matching this filter at the time this page was generated. Headlines link to the publisher — we index and search, we do not host.
| Published | Headline | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
2026-10-23T05:11 | [뉴욕증시 마감] “AI 비용·이란 공습 우려” 유가 상승·나스닥 2.6% 하락 | www.blockmedia.co.kr |
2026-10-23T05:05 | 리플 프라임, DTCC 토큰화 협의체 합류…7월 실거래엔 XRP 아닌 캔톤·베수 썼다 | www.wikitree.co.kr |
2026-10-23T05:00 | 아크 브라우저, 12월 22일 종료…6억 1,000만 달러에 인수된 회사의 대표 제품 | www.wikitree.co.kr |
2026-10-23T05:00 | [데스크 시각] AI도 단골이 될까요 | www.etoday.co.kr |
2026-10-23T05:00 | “한식 때문에 또 와요”…명동서 만난 외국인의 ‘K푸드 한 끼’ [한끼도 수출이다] | www.etoday.co.kr |
2026-10-23T05:00 | [단독] 영화 심사해 놓고 추가 지원은 ‘선착순’…영진위 공정성 논란 [영화 예산의 빈틈] | www.etoday.co.kr |
2026-10-23T05:00 | JP모건도 비트코인 재평가…해외 ETF 진화하지만 국내는 ‘주춤’ | www.etoday.co.kr |
2026-10-23T05:00 | 방한객을 단골로…식품업계, ‘K푸드 체험’ 넓힌다 [한끼도 수출이다] | www.etoday.co.kr |
Who publishes it
The 25 most active publishers inside this slice right now. Not a curated list — this is simply who appeared most often.
| Publisher | Articles | Share | API |
|---|---|---|---|
www.pedien.com | 51,056 | 10.1% | query |
www.segye.com | 44,237 | 8.7% | query |
www.newspim.com | 42,781 | 8.5% | query |
www.sportschosun.com | 36,469 | 7.2% | query |
mhnse.com | 26,267 | 5.2% | query |
news.sbs.co.kr | 22,353 | 4.4% | query |
m.seoul.co.kr | 21,355 | 4.2% | query |
www.seoul.co.kr | 20,593 | 4.1% | query |
pedien.com | 20,149 | 4.0% | query |
www.etoday.co.kr | 16,803 | 3.3% | query |
www.tenasia.co.kr | 12,217 | 2.4% | query |
www.koreanewsone.com | 11,301 | 2.2% | query |
biz.heraldcorp.com | 9,646 | 1.9% | query |
www.wikitree.co.kr | 9,112 | 1.8% | query |
www.ohmynews.com | 8,570 | 1.7% | query |
www.koreatimes.co.kr | 7,266 | 1.4% | query |
tvreport.co.kr | 7,164 | 1.4% | query |
jngjnews.com | 6,319 | 1.2% | query |
www.khan.co.kr | 5,422 | 1.1% | query |
www.digitaltoday.co.kr | 5,418 | 1.1% | query |
m.segye.com | 4,707 | 0.9% | query |
www.blockmedia.co.kr | 4,498 | 0.9% | query |
inthiswork.com | 4,198 | 0.8% | query |
quantpro.co.kr | 4,158 | 0.8% | query |
pulsen.co.kr | 3,949 | 0.8% | query |
Languages published in South Korea
What this country actually publishes in, which is often more than one language and rarely what a single language filter would suggest.
| Code | Name | Articles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| ko | Korean | 464,986 | 92.0% |
| en | English | 35,311 | 7.0% |
| zh | Chinese | 1,765 | 0.3% |
| ja | Japanese | 353 | 0.1% |
| es | Spanish | 187 | 0.0% |
| fr | French | 57 | 0.0% |
| sv | Swedish | 8 | 0.0% |
| vi | Vietnamese | 7 | 0.0% |
| id | Indonesian | 3 | 0.0% |
| ar | Arabic | 2 | 0.0% |
| ru | Russian | 1 | 0.0% |
Domain zones used by South Korea publishers
Publishers here do not all use the national zone. This is the split that country inference has to work against.
| Code | Name | Articles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| com | global commercial | 307,798 | 60.9% |
| kr | South Korea | 182,913 | 36.2% |
| net | global network | 8,589 | 1.7% |
| news | news publications | 3,479 | 0.7% |
| co | Colombia | 1,821 | 0.4% |
| tv | media | 494 | 0.1% |
| blog | blogs | 286 | 0.1% |
| org | organisations | 151 | 0.0% |
| ngo | ngo | 72 | 0.0% |
| io | technology | 56 | 0.0% |
Volume by day
How much this slice produces daily. Useful for sizing a job before you run it, and for spotting whether a spike is real or an artefact of one publisher.
| Day | Articles | |
|---|---|---|
2026-10-22 | 9,039 | |
2026-10-21 | 7,806 | |
2026-10-20 | 5,673 | |
2026-10-19 | 7,322 | |
2026-10-18 | 4,952 | |
2026-10-17 | 3,294 | |
2026-10-16 | 8,412 | |
2026-10-15 | 9,339 | |
2026-10-14 | 9,603 | |
2026-10-13 | 9,282 | |
2026-10-12 | 9,403 | |
2026-10-11 | 4,727 | |
2026-10-10 | 2,966 | |
2026-10-09 | 3,516 |
Combine with other filters
# South Korea, published today, full article bodies
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=KR&date=today&full_text=true&size=10"
# South Korea, search phrase, ranked by relevance
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=KR&q=economy&sort=relevance&size=20"
# South Korea, newly ingested in the last 15 minutes
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=KR&sort=crawled&from=now-15m&size=50"