Seoul Rising

Seoul Rising

Korea-first K-pop trends for US fans

Seoul Rising ranks K-pop acts by what is moving in Korea first: YouTube view velocity, Korean and English Wikipedia pageviews, and headline counts from Yonhap, Soompi and Koreaboo. A KR FIRST flag marks acts whose Korean signals moved before English-language coverage. The iOS app and home screen widget refresh about every 30 minutes.

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iOS app. Seoul Rising is built for iPhone (iOS 18 and later) and is currently in testing through TestFlight. The app reads the public feed above; it has no accounts and collects no personal data.