Asia-Pacific / South Korea · Environment

Stray bull shark becomes celebrity in South Korea

Rank
Ran: 27h
Updated: 5d ago
Final
Outlets: 6
Regions: 1
Countries: 4
Languages: 4

Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany · German 29 Sept, 12:17 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Nederlands (2) · +2 languages

Read at Süddeutsche Zeitung

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Süddeutsche Zeitung, 29 Sept, 12:17 UTC.
Second country: Finland, with Helsingin Sanomat.
Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 30 Sept, 11:35 UTC.
Last article: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

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

The regions

100%

Europe 6 outlets · 4 countries · 100%

First movers

Süddeutsche Zeitung 29 Sept, 12:17 UTC
Der Spiegel +20h 2m
Helsingin Sanomat +23h 17m
NOS +23h 21m
TVN24 +23h 21m

Last to join

RTL Nieuws 30 Sept, 19:39 UTC
TVN24 30 Sept, 11:39 UTC
NOS 30 Sept, 11:38 UTC
Helsingin Sanomat 30 Sept, 11:35 UTC
Der Spiegel 30 Sept, 08:20 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 6 outlets in 4 countries. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 6 outlets, 1 public-service, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Europe 4: Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Poland. 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: German, Finnish, Dutch, Polish.
Timeline: Earliest article Süddeutsche Zeitung, 29 Sept 2026, 12:17 UTC. First seen 29 Sept 2026, 15:40 UTC. Last seen 30 Sept 2026, 19:39 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 Environment. 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.
Chain: Continued by Shark trapped in South Korean canal, second rescue attempt unsuccessful. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
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

30 Sept 2026 302 4.19 6 4 5 4 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 29 Sept, 15:40 UTC · Updated 30 Sept, 19:39 UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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Europe 6 outlets

RTL Nieuws Netherlands 30 Sept, 19:39 UTC
Veel bekijks voor deze haai in Zuid-Korea die vastzit in stadskanaal
TVN24 Poland 30 Sept, 11:39 UTC
Rekin utknął w kanale portowym. Przyciągnął setki tysięcy osób
NOS Netherlands 30 Sept, 11:38 UTC
Verdwaalde haai weet Zuid-Koreaanse havenstad voor zich te winnen, maar moet weg
Helsingin Sanomat Finland 30 Sept, 11:35 UTC
Eläimet | Kanavaan jumiutuneesta haista tuli julkkis Etelä-Koreassa
Der Spiegel Germany 30 Sept, 08:20 UTC
Südkorea: Verirrter Bullenhai wird zum Star
Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany 29 Sept, 12:17 UTC
Verirrter Hai: Ja, warum will er denn nicht wegschwimmen?