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Trapped shark in South Korea sparks tourism and retail boost

Rank
Running
22h
Updated
18h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
4
Regions
3
Countries
4
Languages
2

+0

Euronews France · English 6 Oct, 09:00 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in Tiếng Việt (1) · +0 languages

Read at Euronews

How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 4 after 41 hours.

1 2 3 4
0h 12h 24h 36h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Euronews, 6 Oct, 09:00 UTC.
  2. Second country: Hong Kong, with South China Morning Post.
  3. Second region: Asia-Pacific, with South China Morning Post.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 7 Oct, 03:52 UTC.
  5. Now: 4 outlets.

Where it travelled

42 of 42 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

25%50%25%

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

First movers

  1. Euronews 6 Oct, 09:00 UTC
  2. South China Morning Post +18h 51m
  3. Dân Trí +18h 58m
  4. Bloomberg +22h 29m

The figures

Coverage
4 outlets in 4 countries, across 3 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 4 outlets, 1 state-owned, 3 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 1: United States. Asia-Pacific 2: Hong Kong, Vietnam. Europe 1: France. 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, Vietnamese.
Timeline
Earliest article Euronews, 6 Oct 2026, 09:00 UTC. First seen 7 Oct 2026, 04:00 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 07:30 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 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
0.22, 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
7 Oct 2026 345 3.11 4 4 3 3 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 7 Oct, 04:00 UTC · Updated 07:30 UTC

Covered by 4 outlets

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Americas 1 outlet

  • Bloomberg United States 7 Oct, 07:30 UTC
    Stranded Shark Draws a Million Visitors in Korea

Asia-Pacific 2 outlets

  • Dân Trí Vietnam 7 Oct, 03:59 UTC
    Cá mập mắc kẹt châm ngòi “cuộc chiến thương hiệu” tại Hàn Quốc
  • South China Morning Post Hong Kong 7 Oct, 03:52 UTC
    Viral trapped shark in South Korea brings tourism, retail windfall to Busan

Europe 1 outlet

  • Euronews France 6 Oct, 09:00 UTC
    ‘Lost’ shark draws over a million curious visitors in South Korea
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