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Asia-Pacific / South Korea · Energy

Saudi crude share of South Korea's imports falls below 30%

Rank
Running
24h
Updated
14h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
4
Regions
3
Countries
4
Languages
3

+0

Yonhap South Korea · English 5 Oct, 02:25 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

Read it also in العربية (1) · فارسی (1) · +1 language

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 4 after 25 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Yonhap, 5 Oct, 02:25 UTC.
  2. Second country: Syria, with SANA.
  3. Second region: Middle East, with SANA.
  4. Now: 4 outlets.

Where it travelled

25 of 25 hours

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The 4 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

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  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 25%
  • Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 25%
  • Middle East 2 outlets · 2 countries · 50%

First movers

  1. Yonhap 5 Oct, 02:25 UTC
  2. SANA +5h 1m
  3. IRNA (fa) +6h 5m
  4. OilPrice.com +10h 4m

The figures

Coverage
4 outlets in 4 countries, across 3 regions, 1 of them trade press. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 4 outlets, 3 state-owned, 1 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 1: South Korea. Europe 1: United Kingdom. Middle East 2: Iran, Syria. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Arabic, English, Persian.
Timeline
Earliest article Yonhap, 5 Oct 2026, 02:25 UTC. First seen 5 Oct 2026, 03:00 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 12:30 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Asia-Pacific, South Korea. Topic Energy. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
0.15, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
5 Oct 2026 331 3.03 4 4 4 4 4.1

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Started 5 Oct, 03:00 UTC · Updated 12:30 UTC

Covered by 4 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

  • Yonhap South Korea 5 Oct, 02:25 UTC
    Saudi crude share of S. Korea's imports falls below 30 pct for 1st time in 5 yrs

Europe 1 outlet

  • OilPrice.com United Kingdom 5 Oct, 12:30 UTC
    South Korea Plans to Triple Canadian Crude Imports as Saudi Share Slips

Middle East 2 outlets

  • IRNA (fa) Iran 5 Oct, 08:30 UTC
    سئول در حال کاهش وابستگی به نفت عربستان؛ سهم ریاض زیر ۳۰ درصد شد
  • SANA Syria 5 Oct, 07:26 UTC
    انخفاض حصة النفط الخام المستورد من السعودية في كوريا إلى أقل من 30%
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