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Asia-Pacific / South Korea · Culture

K-pop star Song Min-ho receives suspended prison sentence for military service violation

Rank
Ran
30h
Updated
3d ago
Final
Outlets
9
Regions
3
Countries
8
Languages
7

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Yonhap South Korea · English 1 Oct, 02:47 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in Italiano (1) · Melayu (1) · Tiếng Việt (1) · Türkçe (1) · नेपाली (1) · ไทย (1) · +5 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 9 after 31 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Yonhap, 1 Oct, 02:47 UTC.
  2. Second country: Vietnam, with Thanh Niên.
  3. Second region: Middle East, with Cumhuriyet.
  4. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 1 Oct, 08:55 UTC.
  5. Last article: 9 outlets.

Where it travelled

32 of 32 hours

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The 8 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

78%

  • Asia-Pacific 7 outlets · 6 countries · 78%
  • Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%

First movers

  1. Yonhap 1 Oct, 02:47 UTC
  2. Thanh Niên +2h 24m
  3. Thairath +5h 21m
  4. The Korea Herald +6h 8m
  5. Cumhuriyet +6h 43m

Last to join

  1. Ratopati 2 Oct, 09:55 UTC
  2. Utusan Malaysia 2 Oct, 05:15 UTC
  3. Daily Tribune 1 Oct, 11:24 UTC
  4. Il Post 1 Oct, 09:48 UTC
  5. Cumhuriyet 1 Oct, 09:30 UTC

The figures

Coverage
9 outlets in 8 countries, across 3 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 9 outlets, 2 state-owned, 7 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 6: Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam. Europe 1: Italy. Middle East 1: Turkey. 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
English, Italian, Malay, Nepali, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese.
Timeline
Earliest article Yonhap, 1 Oct 2026, 02:47 UTC. First seen 1 Oct 2026, 03:20 UTC. Last seen 2 Oct 2026, 09:55 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 Culture. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off 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
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. 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
2 Oct 2026 349 3.29 9 8 2 2 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 1 Oct, 03:20 UTC · Updated 2 Oct, 09:55 UTC

Covered by 9 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 7 outlets

  • Ratopati Nepal 2 Oct, 09:55 UTC
    अनिवार्य सैन्य सेवाको नियम उल्लङ्घन गरेको अभियोगमा के-पप गायकलाई निलम्बित जेल सजाय
  • Utusan Malaysia Malaysia 2 Oct, 05:15 UTC
    Bintang K-pop dipenjara setahun langgar undang-undang khidmat tentera
  • Daily Tribune Philippines 1 Oct, 11:24 UTC
    Winner’s Mino gets suspended prison term for violating military service law
  • The Korea Herald South Korea 1 Oct, 08:55 UTC
    Winner's Mino gets suspended sentence for military service violations
  • Thairath Thailand 1 Oct, 08:08 UTC
    ศาลเกาหลีใต้ตัดสินจำคุก "มิโน" วง WINNER 1 ปี รอลงอาญา 2 ปี ละเมิดกฎหมายรับราชการทหาร
  • Thanh Niên Vietnam 1 Oct, 05:11 UTC
    Song Mino (WINNER) lĩnh án 2 năm tù treo
  • Yonhap South Korea 1 Oct, 02:47 UTC
    WINNER's Song Min-ho gets suspended prison term for negligence in mandatory service

Europe 1 outlet

  • Il Post Italy 1 Oct, 09:48 UTC
    Il cantante sudcoreano Song Min-ho è stato condannato a due anni di carcere per essersi assentato dal servizio civile obbligatorio

Middle East 1 outlet

  • Cumhuriyet Turkey 1 Oct, 09:30 UTC
    K-pop yıldızı Song Min-ho’ya askerlik yasasını ihlalden hapis cezası
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