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What South Korea is talking about

Measured attention, not opinion polls: what people search for (Google Trends), what they read (Wikipedia page views) and what the news covers and how (GDELT, every 15 minutes). For what people think, see the opinion surveys.

Today

Searching

Google Trends KR · 15 Nov 2026
  1. sk하이닉스 20k+
  2. 복권 new 5k+
  3. 100일의 거짓말 new 2k+
  4. 육군사관학교 new 1k+
  5. 이승기 1k+
  6. 함덕주 new 500+
  7. 메이저 리그 베이스볼 500+
  8. 잠실주공5단지 아파트 new 500+
  9. 엘리나 스비톨리나 new 500+
  10. 성리 500+
  11. 롤 인벤 new 200+
  12. 홍현희 new 200+
  13. 마우리시오 포체티노 100+
  14. bồ đào nha đấu với đan mạch new 100+

In the news

GDELT · outlets in South Korea · last 2 days
  • Msm 450
  • Leader 416
  • General government 383
  • Manmade disaster implied 315
  • Affect 239
  • Education 232
  • Delay 218
  • Social 201
  • General health 192
  • Medical 192
  • Stockmarket 132
  • Security services 131

People

Donald Trump

Organisations

United States · Nvidia · Reuters · White House · National Assembly · Youtube · Microsoft · Department Of Commerce · Young · Ministry Of Commerce · Department Of Commerce China · Ministry Of Commerce Alice

"new" = first day in the trending list; "N days" = trending on N of the last 14 days. Traffic is Google's rounded search-volume band. GDELT themes are machine-tagged from articles published by outlets in the country (in any language); people and organisations are extracted automatically and can be noisy.

Rising

New in the lists today.

  • 이혜훈
  • 아시아 프로야구 챔피언십
  • 김승우
  • Colette Kress

Evergreen

In the lists on most recent days (searches: 5+ of 14, pages: 10+ of 30).

  • 문화방송 29d
  • 한국방송공사 29d
  • 한국교육방송공사 29d
  • Ansel Adams 24d
  • 연합뉴스 15d
  • 이진희 (배우) 14d
  • 박진영 (1994년) 25d

Topics in the news · South Korea

Share of news by topic

% of articles from outlets in this country, per day (GDELT GKG)

Topics are keyword groups over GDELT's GKG themes; an article can be in several. Collection started in Oct 2026, so the history fills up from there.

Source: The GDELT Project updated 1 min ago

This week vs the world

% of articles, last 7 days
TopicHereAll countriesMore
War & conflict21.1%20.3%
Energy15.1%11.0%more hereEnergy →
Jobs12.4%12.8%Jobs & cost of living →
Crime10.4%22.9%less here
Elections9.4%9.5%Politics →
AI7.3%2.5%more here
Protest5.9%7.7%less herePolitics →
Cost of living4.1%2.4%more hereEconomy →
Housing3.2%2.0%more hereEconomy →
Migration2.3%3.6%less herePopulation & migration →
Climate1.1%1.8%less hereEnergy →
Health0.3%1.1%less herePopulation & migration →
Trade0.2%0.2%Economy →
Robotics0.0%0.1%less hereRobotics →
Self-driving0.0%0.0%less hereSelf-driving →
Source: The GDELT Project · to 14 Nov 2026

Around the world

Elections: share of the news, last 7 days

By the country of the outlet, not of the story. Tone is GDELT's average document tone (negative = more negative words). Countries with fewer than 50 (tone) or 200 (topic) articles in the week are left grey. Click a covered country to open its trends.

Source: The GDELT Project

Elections across countries

% of each country's news articles per day (GDELT GKG)
Source: The GDELT Project updated 1 min ago

Everywhere vs local

Read everywhere

Wikipedia articles in the top lists of 3+ countries on the latest day.

  1. Jensen Huang11 countries · 627.7k views
  2. Colette Kress9 countries · 199.7k views
  3. Nvidia8 countries · 213.4k views
  4. Alice Huang (executive)7 countries · 126.4k views
  5. Avril Lavigne6 countries · 109.9k views
  6. Russell Brand5 countries · 93.8k views
  7. Lisa Su4 countries · 57.9k views
  8. Deaths in 20263 countries · 97.7k views
  9. Mauricio Pochettino3 countries · 70.2k views
  10. David Walliams3 countries · 56k views
  11. Ebenezer (2026 film)3 countries · 55.5k views
  12. The Body (TV series)3 countries · 43.2k views
  13. Archive of Our Own3 countries · 39.3k views
  14. Grand Theft Auto VI3 countries · 26.8k views
  15. UEFA Nations League3 countries · 24.2k views
  16. Wild Horse Nine3 countries · 16.3k views

Only here

Top pages in South Korea that no other tracked country has in its list.

  1. 젠슨 황14.6k views
  2. 문화방송12.4k views
  3. 한국방송공사9.2k views
  4. 한국교육방송공사6.2k views
  5. 이혜훈3.7k views
  6. 엔비디아3.2k views
  7. 아시아 프로야구 챔피언십2.4k views
  8. 최민희 (1960년)2.3k views
  9. 연합뉴스2k views
  10. 이재용1.9k views
  11. 이진희 (배우)1.9k views
  12. 김승우1.5k views

Related

Sources: Source: Google Trends (hourly per country, every 3 h per region) · Source: Wikimedia Foundation pageviews API (daily top lists; language editions for the world view) · Source: The GDELT Project (15 min) · Source: Hacker News via the Algolia HN Search API. Not included: Reddit and YouTube (their APIs need keys), X (no open API), China's Google Trends and per-country Wikipedia lists (not published).

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