Real-time politics news from South Korea, structured for developers. NewsMesh filters South Korea-relevant politics coverage into one JSON feed (GET /v1/latest?category=politics&country=kr), each story tagged with category, country relevance, and the named people detected in the body.
Seoul and Kyiv are trading accusations after the transfer of two North Korean POWs to South Korea. The South insists the move was to be kept secret as it seeks to avoid antagoni...
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Tensions between South Korea and Ukraine started escalating last month when Ukraine revealed it had transferred two North Korean soldiers to Seoul.
The South Korean announcement on Thursday came days after its President Lee Jae Myung threatened unspecified punitive steps if Ukraine refuses to apologize over the revelation.
The North has long been criticized for prioritizing the military over adequately providing for its people.
South Korea has said it will recall its ambassador to Ukraine. Seoul is upset about a transfer of North Korean prisoners of war being made public knowledge at the UN and had dem...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea said Thursday it will recall its ambassador to Ukraine, stepping up its protest against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s recent re...
South Korea said on Thursday it would recall its ambassador to Ukraine in response to a deepening diplomatic row over the transfer of North Korean prisoners of war to Seoul. The...
The decision comes as the two countries have been at loggerheads since Zelenskyy disclosed the transfer of the prisoners.
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President Lee Jae Myung directed officials to investigate after cyberattacks hit Shinhan Bank, KB Kookmin Bank, and others
“I would not like to call this an incident. Let’s say it’s a diplomatic misunderstanding,” said Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Andrii Sybiha. But the South Korean president ...
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Power in Asia extends well beyond the C-suite.
Trump said Friday he would "double it up" if Seoul doesn't sign on to the $50 billion project, which South Korea says is not yet finalized
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NewsMesh filters South Korea-relevant politics coverage into one structured feed, ready to query by the same parameters as the rest of the API.
Authenticate with your apiKey and call one endpoint (GET api.newsmesh.co/v1/latest?category=politics&country=kr). The examples below are ready to copy.
curl "https://api.newsmesh.co/v1/latest?apiKey=nm_xxx&category=politics&country=kr&limit=20"GET /v1/latest: Most-recent articles, filterable by category, country, and date range.GET /v1/search: Full-text search across the archive with boolean operators and source filters.GET /v1/trending: Cached trending headlines, the fastest endpoint for homepage feeds.GET /v1/article/{id}: Fetch a single article and its full metadata by ID.NewsMesh filters South Korea-relevant politics coverage into one structured feed, each story tagged with its category, the countries it's relevant to, and the named people detected in the body.
Call GET /v1/latest?category=politics&country=kr. Use /v1/search to add keyword queries on top of the same filters.
Yes. Swap the category parameter (business, sports, technology, health, and more) or drop it entirely to get all South Korea coverage from /v1/latest?country=kr.
Yes. NewsMesh is a real-time news API: politics South Korea stories are served through the live /v1/latest and /v1/trending endpoints alongside a searchable archive, each tagged with its category, the countries it's relevant to, and the named people detected in the body, so you can build a live feed without scraping HTML.
Create a NewsMesh account, generate an API key, and call the endpoint above with your apiKey parameter. See the pricing page for current plans and rate limits.
Access the full dataset programmatically with the NewsMesh API.