News from South Korea
365,697 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.segye.com with 44,411 articles, 12.1% of the total, followed by www.newspim.com, biz.heraldcorp.com. By language it splits into Korean (336,826), English (22,534), Japanese (1,080) and 5 more. Daily volume averages about 5,794 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 7,171 on 2026-09-04.
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 |
|---|---|---|
2026-09-07T20:21 | 교육협력 해법 찾는 천호성 교육감… 전북 14개 시군 찾는다 | www.etoday.co.kr |
2026-09-07T20:19 | 바론 세 번 삼킨 DNS, KRX와 47분 혈투 승리 [현장] | www.etoday.co.kr |
2026-09-07T20:16 | 용인시의회, 주민자치회 조례 2차 간담회…"주민참여 제도 토대 만든다" | www.etoday.co.kr |
2026-09-07T20:16 | 용혜인 의원 겸직 논란, 기본소득당 "새로운 선례 만들겠다" | capi.kr |
2026-09-07T20:16 | 행정수도-남해안권 연결 본격화…전남광주·세종 의회 상생발전 협약 | ikbc.net |
2026-09-07T20:15 | 비행기에서 난동 부리다 덕트 테이프로 결박된 남성, 회사에서도 해고됐어요 | capi.kr |
2026-09-07T20:14 | 라라 이바라 다이어트 전문가: 지방 감량은 제한적 다이어트가 아니라 다섯 가지 핵심 습관을 올바르게 지키는 것 | www.cmcglr.com |
2026-09-07T20:12 | 고흥 청석항 어촌뉴딜300사업 준공… 어항 인프라 대폭 확충 | ikbc.net |
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.segye.com | 44,411 | 12.1% | query |
www.newspim.com | 42,232 | 11.5% | query |
biz.heraldcorp.com | 30,981 | 8.5% | query |
www.sportschosun.com | 30,565 | 8.4% | query |
news.sbs.co.kr | 23,802 | 6.5% | query |
m.seoul.co.kr | 21,597 | 5.9% | query |
www.seoul.co.kr | 20,782 | 5.7% | query |
m.segye.com | 20,592 | 5.6% | query |
www.khan.co.kr | 14,541 | 4.0% | query |
www.asiatoday.co.kr | 12,264 | 3.4% | query |
www.tenasia.co.kr | 12,158 | 3.3% | query |
www.donga.com | 10,144 | 2.8% | query |
www.ohmynews.com | 8,309 | 2.3% | query |
mhnse.com | 6,302 | 1.7% | query |
www.sportsworldi.com | 5,228 | 1.4% | query |
www.koreatimes.co.kr | 5,156 | 1.4% | query |
www.pedien.com | 4,426 | 1.2% | query |
pedien.com | 4,330 | 1.2% | query |
go.seoul.co.kr | 3,833 | 1.0% | query |
m.go.seoul.co.kr | 3,830 | 1.0% | query |
jngjnews.com | 2,230 | 0.6% | query |
www.etoday.co.kr | 2,023 | 0.6% | query |
tvreport.co.kr | 1,539 | 0.4% | query |
quantpro.co.kr | 1,532 | 0.4% | query |
www.yugacrew.com | 1,453 | 0.4% | 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 | 336,826 | 92.1% |
| en | English | 22,534 | 6.2% |
| ja | Japanese | 1,080 | 0.3% |
| zh | Chinese | 930 | 0.3% |
| fr | French | 131 | 0.0% |
| es | Spanish | 43 | 0.0% |
| ru | Russian | 2 | 0.0% |
| vi | Vietnamese | 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 | 225,438 | 61.6% |
| kr | South Korea | 136,956 | 37.5% |
| net | global network | 1,830 | 0.5% |
| news | news publications | 868 | 0.2% |
| co | Colombia | 313 | 0.1% |
| tv | media | 113 | 0.0% |
| blog | blogs | 112 | 0.0% |
| org | organisations | 67 | 0.0% |
| io | technology | 1 | 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 | |
|---|---|---|
2026-09-07 | 5,188 | |
2026-09-06 | 4,743 | |
2026-09-05 | 3,402 | |
2026-09-04 | 7,171 | |
2026-09-03 | 7,095 | |
2026-09-02 | 6,981 | |
2026-09-01 | 6,259 | |
2026-08-31 | 5,514 | |
2026-08-30 | 4,101 | |
2026-08-29 | 2,956 | |
2026-08-28 | 7,825 | |
2026-08-27 | 7,700 | |
2026-08-26 | 5,542 | |
2026-08-25 | 4,148 |
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"