Korean Financial News API
Native Korean financial press through one API: Hankyung, Maeil Business, Sedaily, ChosunBiz, Newspim, and Yonhap, delivered as headlines and metadata with companies resolved from Hangul text to canonical English names, KRX tickers, and ISINs.
Product demo
Hangul article in, KRX tickers out
This is a live response from the API, fetched with the exact filter any customer can run, no special access involved. The article names the companies only in Korean; the API returns them as canonical English entities with their KRX tickers and ISINs:
// search_articles with:
// query: "ticker:005930 OR ticker:000660"
// language: "ko", includeEntities: true
{
"title": "마이크론, 3500억 AI펀드 출범… 삼성·SK와 메모리 생태계 경쟁",
"summary": "미국 메모리 반도체 업체 마이크론이 2억5000만달러(약 3500억원) 규모 인공지능(AI) 투자 펀드를 출범한다. ...",
"source": "www.mk.co.kr",
"publishDate": "2026-08-16T08:54:08.000Z",
"language": "ko",
"categories": ["business", "technology"],
"countries": ["US", "KR"],
"sentiment": "neutral",
"confidence": 0.9889,
"companies": [
{
"name": "Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.",
"ticker": "005930",
"exchange": "XKRX",
"isin": "KR7005930003",
"sector": "Technology",
"industry": "Consumer Electronics",
"confidence": 0.92,
"primaryListing": { "ticker": "005930", "exchangeCode": "XKRX", "exchangeCountry": "KR" }
// + 8 otherListings (GDR and cross-listings), abbreviated
}
// + SK hynix Inc. (ticker 000660, XKRX, ISIN KR7000660001, confidence 0.92)
// + Micron Technology, Inc. (ticker MU, XNAS), abbreviated
]
}A Maeil Business report on memory-chip competition. The headline mentions Samsung and SK only as "삼성·SK"; the entity block resolves them to Samsung Electronics (005930) and SK hynix (000660) with their KRX listings and Korean ISINs. finlight delivers headlines and metadata from the named Korean publishers, enriched with finlight's own structured data: company entities, tickers, ISINs, and categories. The article link points to the publisher. Payload abbreviated: cross-listings and two further entity blocks are collapsed into comment lines; every shown field is unedited from the response.
Source coverage
Six named Korean sources, live today
finlight carries six named Korean-language financial news sources, spanning the three business dailies, a dedicated business desk, a financial wire, and the country's largest general wire. For all six, finlight delivers headlines and metadata, enriched with finlight's own entity, ticker, and category tagging. Article links point to the publishers.
| Source | Class | Language | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hankyung 한국경제 (www.hankyung.com) | Business daily | Korean | Headlines and metadata, plus finlight enrichment |
| Maeil Business 매일경제 (www.mk.co.kr) | Business daily | Korean | Headlines and metadata, plus finlight enrichment |
| Sedaily 서울경제 (www.sedaily.com) | Business daily | Korean | Headlines and metadata, plus finlight enrichment |
| ChosunBiz 조선비즈 (biz.chosun.com) | Business desk, Chosun Media Group | Korean | Headlines and metadata, plus finlight enrichment |
| Newspim 뉴스핌 (www.newspim.com) | Financial wire | Korean | Headlines and metadata, plus finlight enrichment |
| Yonhap 연합뉴스 (www.yna.co.kr) | General wire | Korean | Headlines and metadata, plus finlight enrichment |
What these six cover: Hankyung, Maeil Business, and Sedaily are Korea's three established business dailies, covering listed companies, markets, and economic policy; ChosunBiz is the business desk of the Chosun Media Group; Newspim is a financial wire; Yonhap is Korea's largest news agency, whose output also spans general news beyond finance. Every article carries language, country, and category tags, and optional company entities resolved to KRX tickers and ISINs. The Korea Herald (English-language) is part of the wider catalog separately; this page is about the Korean-language sources.
Freshness
One afternoon across the Korean financial press
A live pull across the named sources, timestamps exactly as the API returned them:
| Source | Headline | publishDate |
|---|---|---|
| www.hankyung.com | 제약·바이오기업 2분기 영업익 40% 증가 | 2026-08-16T09:03:12Z |
| www.mk.co.kr | 선 넘은 가계빚, 사상첫 2000조 | 2026-08-16T08:49:05Z |
| www.sedaily.com | 수도권 6억 아파트를 1억대로?…집값 25%만 내고 사는 '파격 주택' 나온다 | 2026-08-16T08:51:16Z |
| www.newspim.com | 전력 슈퍼사이클 탄 LS, 2분기 역대 최대 실적 기록 | 2026-08-16T07:53:00Z |
| biz.chosun.com | 김정관 산업장관, 3주 만에 미국 재방문… '대미 투자·관세 현안' 긴급 진화 | 2026-08-16T05:27:39Z |
| www.yna.co.kr | 코스피, 지난주 5일 연속 상승…외국인 순매수로 지수 견인 | 2026-08-16T03:27:34Z |
Six sources, one filter. The same query drives REST, WebSocket, and webhooks.
Get started
Query Korean sources by KRX ticker
Filter native Korean coverage by the identifiers your systems already use. Only the API key is missing.
import { FinlightApi } from 'finlight-client'
const api = new FinlightApi({ apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY' })
const res = await api.articles.fetchArticles({
query: 'ticker:005930 OR ticker:000660',
language: 'ko',
includeEntities: true,
})
for (const a of res.articles) {
console.log(a.publishDate, a.source, a.title)
console.log(a.companies?.map((c) => `${c.ticker} (${c.exchange})`).join(', '))
}ticker: in the query language matches articles whose tagged companies resolve to that KRX ticker, whichever Korean alias the article used in text. language: "ko" keeps results to Korean-language coverage. Register the same filter once as a webhook query and matching articles are pushed to you; the WebSocket feed takes it too.
Install with npm install finlight-client or pip install finlight-client.
Enterprise
When the catalog is not enough
The six sources above are the named Korean catalog available to customers today. If your monitoring needs an outlet that is not part of it, that is the enterprise motion: you name the source, we onboard it as part of your contract, and it stays scoped to your contract.
Honest comparison
The manual version of this page
A desk covering Korea without an API does it in one of two ways: someone who reads Korean works through Hankyung, Maeil Business, Sedaily, ChosunBiz, and the wires by hand every day, or Google-translated headlines get piped into a spreadsheet. Neither produces structured, machine-readable output, and the language barrier makes the manual path slower and more error-prone than the same routine in an English-language market. finlight monitors the named Korean financial press continuously and returns every item as structured JSON: Hangul headline, timestamp, source, and companies resolved to canonical English names with KRX tickers and ISINs. That replaces the manual-reading step and the translation step for monitoring purposes: your systems filter by ticker, category, or keyword without anyone reading Korean. What it does not replace is a full-text reading workflow; for the underlying articles, the links point to the publishers.
Three things this page does not offer, stated plainly:
- No full article text from Korean publishers. finlight delivers headlines and metadata from the named Korean sources, enriched with finlight's own structured data (entities, tickers, categories). Full-content delivery is not part of the Korean source set on any plan.
- No KRX market data. No prices, quotes, order books, or index levels. For market data, use a market-data vendor; this API is about the news layer.
- No Naver search index. finlight covers a curated set of named Korean financial sources; it is not a Korean web or news search engine and does not mirror Naver's index.
For systematic and trading use, the ticker filter above is the Trading Systems page pattern applied to Korea. finlight also covers Japanese financial news, Chinese domestic media, Singapore financial news, and economic and macro news for desks tracking more than one market.
Other ways to connect
REST, WebSocket, webhooks, or MCP
The REST API is one integration. finlight also offers real-time streaming, event-driven webhooks, and an MCP server for AI agents.
Frequently Asked Questions
Korean Financial News API Questions
Common questions about using finlight for native Korean financial news coverage.
Six named Korean-language sources: Hankyung, Maeil Business, Sedaily, ChosunBiz, Newspim, and Yonhap, each delivered as headlines and metadata with finlight's own entity, ticker, and category enrichment. The full live source list is in your dashboard under Sources. You name a source we do not carry, we onboard it as part of your contract.
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Query Korea's financial press through one API
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