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Trump announces $8.4 billion oil project in South Korea deal

Rank
Ran
7h
Updated
3d ago
Final
Outlets
5
Regions
4
Countries
4
Languages
2

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The Korea Herald South Korea · English 2 Oct, 13:24 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

Read it also in Español (1) · +0 languages

Read at The Korea Herald

How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 5 after 8 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: The Korea Herald, 2 Oct, 13:24 UTC.
  2. Second country: Argentina, with Infobae.
  3. Second region: Americas, with Infobae.
  4. Fastest hour: +4 outlets from 2 Oct, 13:24 UTC.
  5. Last article: 5 outlets.

Where it travelled

9 of 9 hours

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The 4 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

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  • Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 20%
  • Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 1 country · 40%
  • Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 20%
  • International 1 outlet · 20%

First movers

  1. The Korea Herald 2 Oct, 13:24 UTC
  2. Yonhap +4m
  3. Infobae +7m
  4. INTLMiddle East Eye +23m
  5. OilPrice.com +8h 6m

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Trump announces $200 billion South Korean US energy investment, 29 Sept to 1 Oct 2026, 45 outlets.

The figures

Coverage
5 outlets in 4 countries, across 4 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 5 outlets, 1 state-owned, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 1: Argentina. Asia-Pacific 1: South Korea. Europe 1: United Kingdom. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. 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, Spanish.
Timeline
Earliest article The Korea Herald, 2 Oct 2026, 13:24 UTC. First seen 2 Oct 2026, 13:30 UTC. Last seen 2 Oct 2026, 21:30 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
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
Continues Trump announces $200 billion South Korean US energy investment. 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
2 Oct 2026 301 3.83 5 4 5 4 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 2 Oct, 13:30 UTC · Updated 21:30 UTC

Covered by 5 outlets

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Americas 1 outlet

  • Infobae Argentina 2 Oct, 13:30 UTC
    Trump amplía en 7.460 millones el acuerdo con Corea del Sur para la producción de petróleo y gas

Asia-Pacific 2 outlets

  • Yonhap South Korea 2 Oct, 15:22 UTC
    (LEAD) Trump says S. Korea deal 'keeps getting better,' unveils US$8.4 billion oil recovery project
    +1 more articleHide 1 more article
    • Trump says S. Korea deal 'keeps getting better,' unveils US$8.4 billion oil recovery project 2 Oct, 13:27 UTC
  • The Korea Herald South Korea 2 Oct, 13:24 UTC
    Trump says $8.4 billion oil project included in Korea deal

Europe 1 outlet

  • OilPrice.com United Kingdom 2 Oct, 21:30 UTC
    Trump Says South Korea Deal Includes $8.4 Billion U.S. Oil Project

International 1 outlet

  • INTLMiddle East Eye International 2 Oct, 13:46 UTC
    Trump announces $8.4bn oil project under South Korea deal
Read at The Korea Herald

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