Korean Financial Media: Yonhap, Hankyung and Maeil, in the Same API

Korean Financial Media: Yonhap, Hankyung and Maeil, in the Same API

The English wires cover Korea when Korea is a chip story. Memory pricing, an export number, a rate decision at the Bank of Korea.

Everything else stays in Korean. Governance fights, regulator moves, the KOSDAQ names that never get a foreign byline, and the fixed-income and FX desks that most of the market actually trades on.

Korean coverage is now in the API, in the same schema as everything else, filterable by language and market.

The domestic sources

Among the Korean titles in the index:

The Korean-language titles arrive in the default source set, so they need no configuration. English titles out of Seoul, such as The Korea Herald, sit outside that set: add them with optInSources when you want the same day in both languages. The Sources page is the live list, with each source's language and whether it's in your default feed, and it grows as we onboard more.

Yonhap Infomax is the one worth a second look. It is the rates, credit and currency wire, the desk whose output moves the won and the KTB curve. Almost none of that reporting is written up in English anywhere.

And the rest of the world

Sitting alongside it, in the same schema: Bloomberg, Reuters, the WSJ, the FT, CNBC, Barron's, MarketWatch, Yahoo Finance and Benzinga; Nikkei, NHK and Jiji Press in Japanese; Caixin, East Money and Cailian Press in Chinese; Argaam, Al Arabiya and Zawya in Arabic; Channel NewsAsia across the region; AP, PR Newswire and GlobeNewswire; CoinDesk and The Block for digital assets. Among others, and more each month.

One integration instead of a scraping team.

Why it matters

Korea is a market where the domestic and the foreign narrative on the same company routinely diverge. A supplier is a chip cycle story abroad and a governance story at home, on the same day. With both in one index you can hold them side by side rather than pick one.

The Seoul session also closes before the US opens, so the domestic read on a US print lands hours before the English follow-up. That lag is measurable when both languages sit in the same index.

Using it

Articles are fetched with a POST to /v2/articles. The language parameter defaults to en, so set it explicitly to get Korean coverage:

curl -X POST 'https://api.finlight.me/v2/articles' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'X-API-KEY: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -d '{ "language": "ko", "query": "한국은행" }'

To narrow to Korea-listed companies, filter on the exchange inside the query. XKRX is the MIC code for Korea Exchange, and it covers both KOSPI and KOSDAQ:

curl -X POST 'https://api.finlight.me/v2/articles' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'X-API-KEY: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -d '{ "language": "ko", "query": "exchange:XKRX", "includeEntities": true }'

includeEntities returns the resolved companies behind each article and requires a paid tier. Korean sources arrive in the default source set, so there's no new endpoint and no migration. Just the language parameter.

Check it before you write any code

You don't have to integrate first to see what's there. The API Tester in the dashboard builds the request, sets language, and shows the live response, so you can validate the coverage on your own tickers in a couple of minutes. The Sources page lists every source with its language and whether it's in your default feed, and the WebSocket Tester does the same for the live stream.

Also live: Arabic

Argaam, Al Eqtisadiah, Al Arabiya, Asharq Business, Mubasher, Zawya and Sky News Arabia shipped in the same push. See Arabic Financial Media for the language=ar equivalent.

Japanese and Chinese coverage went live earlier: Japanese Financial Media and Chinese Financial Media.

Start with a free key

Korean-language coverage is live on every plan, including the free tier. Create a key, run a query, see what comes back. No credit card, no sales call.

When you outgrow it, Pro Light covers smaller production workloads, and Pro Standard and Pro Scale add the volume and limits that trading and research teams need.

Missing a source you rely on? Get in touch. Customer requests are a large part of how this list grows.

Where to go next

• Arabic Financial Media, the same push for the Gulf and MENA.
• Japanese Financial Media and Chinese Financial Media.
• Tickers & Exchanges Done Right for filtering dual-listed companies.
• Multilingual Financial News API.
• Full documentation.

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