Travelling story
Celebrity shark returns to South Korean canal
First seen in South Korea’s press on 21 October 2026. Carried by 4 presses over 2 days, 17 articles in all; the busiest day was 22 October 2026 with 12 articles.
Ended — carried by the press of 4 countries between 21 October 2026 and 22 October 2026.
Articles per day
The spread, day by day
For each day: the articles the presses gave it, and the presses that carried it for the first time that day.
- 12 articles · 4 presses so far
new: Netherlands (4), Belgium (3)
- 5 articles · 2 presses so far
new: South Korea (3), United Kingdom (2)
The presses that carried it
Ranked by articles over the whole story; the date is the first day each press carried it.
- United Kingdom 5 articles · from 21 Oct 2026
- South Korea 5 articles · from 21 Oct 2026
- Netherlands 4 articles · from 22 Oct 2026
- Belgium 3 articles · from 22 Oct 2026
What they wrote
A few headlines per day, in the outlets’ own words; the translation is ours when shown.
- South Korea · 22 Oct 2026 Busan's 'Bukang-i' is back again. What now for the city's celebrity shark? ↗
- United Kingdom · 22 Oct 2026 Bukang-i is back: famous shark returns to canal in South Korea hours after being coaxed out to sea ↗
- Belgium · 22 Oct 2026 Met uitsterven bedreigde haai bij derde poging gered uit Zuid-Koreaans kanaal, waar 1,6 miljoen mensen haar kwamen bewonderen ↗
- Netherlands · 22 Oct 2026 Haai die uitgroeide tot attractie in Zuid-Korea weggezwommen én weer teruggekeerd ↗
- South Korea · 21 Oct 2026 Stranded shark Bukang-i returns to sea after a month ↗
- South Korea · 21 Oct 2026 Busan to launch 3rd attempt to guide canal-trapped shark back to sea ↗
- United Kingdom · 21 Oct 2026 Shark trapped for a month in South Korean canal is finally freed ↗
- South Korea · 21 Oct 2026 Busan to make third attempt to guide Bukang-i back to sea ↗
Topics are clustered daily from article embeddings across the outlets we read and chained day over day when their centroids match (cosine ≥ 0.80); a story is attributed to the press of each outlet’s country. Where it was first seen is where it first appeared in our feeds. Coverage, not truth; order of appearance, not origin or intent. Method →