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Koreajoongangdaily API, RSS and sitemap

Every article Koreajoongangdaily publishes, as JSON, through an open API with no key and no signup. 2,498 of their articles are indexed right now, refreshed hourly.

South KoreaEnglishKorean#1,441 by volume

Four ways to pull koreajoongangdaily.com

All four are ours, all four are live, and none of them needs a key.

JSON Search this publisher

Every article we hold from koreajoongangdaily.com, newest first. Add q= to search inside.

curl -s "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.koreajoongangdaily.com&size=20"open it →

RSS Subscribe in any reader

The same articles as an RSS 2.0 feed. Works in Feedly, Inoreader, Thunderbird — anywhere.

curl -s "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/rss?host=www.koreajoongangdaily.com&size=50"open it →

JSON Feed For apps

JSON Feed 1.1, the same content in a format apps parse natively.

curl -s "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/feed.json?host=www.koreajoongangdaily.com&size=50"open it →

Trimmed For agents

Only the fields an agent needs — title, url, date, language — so the response stays small.

curl -s "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.koreajoongangdaily.com&size=20&fields=title,url,published_at,lang"open it →

Call the API

A live request. Paste it into a terminal and Koreajoongangdaily headlines come back as JSON.

bash
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.koreajoongangdaily.com&size=5"
2,498
articles indexed
1,174
in the last 30 days
45
median per day
2
languages
67 min
median crawl lag
06.07 → 07.09
archive depth

Publishing volume

Articles per day over the last 63 days. The busiest hour is 15:00 UTC — that is when the newsroom pushes its main batch.

2026-07-06: 10 articles2026-07-07: 10 articles2026-07-08: 20 articles2026-07-09: 20 articles2026-07-10: 25 articles2026-07-11: 19 articles2026-07-12: 32 articles2026-07-13: 57 articles2026-07-14: 55 articles2026-07-15: 60 articles2026-07-16: 50 articles2026-07-17: 33 articles2026-07-18: 14 articles2026-07-19: 32 articles2026-07-20: 47 articles2026-07-21: 66 articles2026-07-22: 78 articles2026-07-23: 81 articles2026-07-24: 43 articles2026-07-25: 11 articles2026-07-26: 26 articles2026-07-27: 43 articles2026-07-28: 51 articles2026-07-29: 68 articles2026-07-30: 74 articles2026-07-31: 48 articles2026-08-01: 19 articles2026-08-02: 27 articles2026-08-03: 47 articles2026-08-04: 58 articles2026-08-05: 54 articles2026-08-06: 36 articles2026-08-08: 10 articles2026-08-09: gap in the upstream archive, the whole corpus dips2026-08-10: 13 articles2026-08-11: 23 articles2026-08-12: 28 articles2026-08-13: 45 articles2026-08-14: 36 articles2026-08-15: 16 articles2026-08-16: 25 articles2026-08-17: 54 articles2026-08-18: 76 articles2026-08-19: 54 articles2026-08-20: 54 articles2026-08-21: 58 articles2026-08-22: 11 articles2026-08-23: 27 articles2026-08-24: 53 articles2026-08-25: 67 articles2026-08-26: 52 articles2026-08-27: 58 articles2026-08-28: 45 articles2026-08-29: 13 articles2026-08-30: 31 articles2026-08-31: 51 articles2026-09-01: 61 articles2026-09-02: 54 articles2026-09-03: 52 articles2026-09-04: 52 articles2026-09-05: 15 articles2026-09-06: 20 articles2026-09-07: 20 articles07-0607-1607-2608-0508-1608-2609-0509-07

The 1 hatched days are gaps in the upstream news archive, not quiet days at Koreajoongangdaily: the whole corpus dips on those dates. They are excluded from the median above.

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?host=www.koreajoongangdaily.com&top=10"

Publishing rhythm

When Koreajoongangdaily actually publishes, by hour of day (UTC) and by day of week — measured from 2,498 timestamps, not from a schedule they advertise.

00: 1330001: 1120102: 1120203: 1260304: 1540405: 1420506: 1070607: 2020708: 2020809: 2000910: 2301011: 1101112: 841213: 221314: 51415: 2811516: 51617: 01718: 01819: 01920: 342021: 162122: 1792223: 4223
Mon: 395MonTue: 467TueWed: 468WedThu: 470ThuFri: 340FriSat: 128SatSun: 230Sun

Sections

Sections come from the publisher's own markup, present on 100% of their articles.

Languages

CodeLanguageArticlesShare
enEnglish2,497100.0%
koKorean10.0%

Latest articles

The 18 most recent Koreajoongangdaily articles in the index — the same rows the API returns, rendered for humans.

Black umbrellas and 150 hungry people: Seoul lines up for Chipotle opening
2026-09-07 09:00 UTC · business · KIM MIN-YOUNG
Chipotle’s first Korea and Asia location in Seoul’s Gangnam district is drawing hours-long queues, with burrito prices lower than at New York stores.
AI spending surge could trigger unprecedented memory chip shortage, KB Securities warns
2026-09-07 09:00 UTC · business · News Team
Surging AI infrastructure spending could create the tightest memory chip supply conditions on record, as HBM4 production squeezes DRAM capacity, KB Securities says.
Warmth of Chuseok table gives way to cooked wallets as food prices rise
2026-09-07 08:52 UTC · business · News Team
Chuseok holiday meal costs are rising in South Korea as higher prices for chicken, eggs, Hanwoo beef, radish and pollock strain household budgets.
Samsung opens hiring across 19 affiliates
2026-09-07 08:46 UTC · business · News Team
Samsung begins accepting applications for its fall 2026 entry-level recruitment drive across 19 affiliates, including Samsung Electronics, through Sept. 15.
Paris 'K-Book Week' marks 140 years Korea-France ties
2026-09-07 08:43 UTC · lifestyle · Published
South Korea’s K-Book Week in Paris showcases 130 Korean titles, authors and publishing events as Seoul and France mark 140 years of diplomatic ties.
Why Korea’s '10 SNU' plan faces backlash
2026-09-07 08:43 UTC · korea · CHO JUNG-WOO
Korea selected Pusan National, Chonnam National and Chungnam National for its 10 SNUs initiative, sparking criticism over funding gaps, transparency and regional inequali
'Poland is a prime example': Czech defense chief on how Korea can win in Europe
2026-09-07 08:40 UTC · korea · SEO JI-EUN
Czech Defense Minister Jaromir Zuna says Korean firms must pursue local production and technology partnerships to compete for European contracts.
Hsinchu city government chooses Naver's Line Works
2026-09-07 08:37 UTC · business · YONHAP
Naver Cloud's Line Works has been selected as Hsinchu city government's official business messaging platform, marking its first entry into Taiwan's public sector.
Unification Church leader Han Hak-ja appeals 2-year bribery sentence
2026-09-07 08:36 UTC · korea · JOINT PRESS CORPS
Unification Church leader Han Hak-ja appealed her two-year prison sentence after a Seoul court convicted her of bribing former first lady Kim Keon Hee and other corruptio
Exports to India jump over 30% in first 8 months on chip demand
2026-09-07 08:36 UTC · business · YONHAP
Korean shipments to India rose through August as demand for semiconductors and AI infrastructure grew.
North Korean destroyer returns for second debut after launch debacle
2026-09-07 02:30 UTC · korea · News Team
North Korea commissioned its 5,000-ton Kang Kon destroyer after repairs from a failed launch, as Kim Jong-un vowed to build a nuclear-armed navy.
DP's Park Jie-won breaks ranks to back Hormuz deployment
2026-09-07 02:15 UTC · korea · News Team
Democratic Party Rep. Park Jie-won said South Korea may need a limited noncombat deployment to the Strait of Hormuz to protect Korean ships and manage ties with the Unite
Actor Baek Jin-hee to marry her Canada-based boyfriend next year
2026-09-07 02:04 UTC · entertainment · News Team
South Korean actor Baek Jin-hee will marry her Canada-based fiancé in Seoul on Jan. 23, her agency Management AM9 announced.
Two wars, one uneasy ally: Trump increases pressure on Seoul to contribute in fight in Iran, Ukraine
2026-09-07 01:52 UTC · korea · News Team
President Donald Trump is pressing South Korea to support operations in the Strait of Hormuz and consider sending Cheongung-II interceptor missiles to Ukraine, raising al
'The Odyssey' tops weekend box office for fifth week
2026-09-07 01:50 UTC · entertainment · Published
Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey,’ starring Matt Damon, topped the South Korean weekend box office for a fifth straight week and surpassed 10 million admissions.
i-dle's Soyeon returns with solo album about quitting work
2026-09-07 01:50 UTC · entertainment · Published
I-dle leader Soyeon returns with her first full-length solo album, “What a Wonderful Life,” featuring a lead song about quitting a job and narration by Kian84.
South Korea, U.S., Japan kick off 3-way military exercise
2026-09-07 01:49 UTC · korea · Published
South Korea, the United States and Japan began the five-day Freedom Edge exercise near Jeju, strengthening joint deterrence against North Korean nuclear and missile threa
Korean vessel pays record canal fee as El Niño increases freight rates
2026-09-07 01:27 UTC · korea · News Team
SK Gas paid a record $5.7 million for a Panama Canal transit slot to secure U.S. LPG supplies for Korea as El Niño-driven drought cuts vessel traffic and raises global fr

Harvest it all

Page through the archive by date. from and to accept YYYY-MM-DD or relative values such as now-7d.

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.koreajoongangdaily.com&from=now-7d&size=100"

To poll for new material, keep the timestamp of the newest article you saw and ask only for what came after it:

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curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?host=www.koreajoongangdaily.com&from=now-1h&sort=date_asc"

Article bodies come with full_text=true. No key, no quota tier, no header — see the search endpoint for every parameter.

Metadata quality

How well Koreajoongangdaily marks up its own pages — useful if you are deciding whether to parse them yourself.

99%
dates from JSON-LD
100%
articles with a byline
100%
articles with sections
147 KB
average page weight

Crawl lag — the delay between publication and the article reaching this index — is 67 min at the median, 168 minutes at the 90th percentile.

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FAQ

Does Koreajoongangdaily have an official API?

Not a public one. This endpoint is the practical alternative: their articles as structured JSON, with title, lead, publication time, section, byline and a link back to the original.

How do I get their RSS feed?

Most publishers expose one at /rss or /feed, but feeds carry only the last few dozen items and drop them within hours. This index keeps 2,498 of their articles and lets you filter by date, language and section.

How many articles does Koreajoongangdaily publish per day?

45 on a median day, measured across 63 days.

Can I use this commercially?

The API is free and unauthenticated. What you may do with the content is between you and the publisher: we return metadata, a lead paragraph and a link, not a licence.