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When Korea’s press offices open, our desk is already moving. PEDIEN turns releases from Korean cities, agencies and companies into published news, supplying more than 225 newsrooms to date, and runs news services for readers and publishers abroad.

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YEOSUGeumodo Festival brings autumn music to an island in Yeosu JEONBUKJeonbuk speeds its shift to high-tech industry on Hyundai’s ₩8.9 trillion Saemangeum investment SEONGBUK-GUSeongbuk-gu mayor Lee Seung-ro checks on residents through the Chuseok holiday ANDONGAndong farm products win over visitors at the 2026 Mask Dance Festival Andong Mask Dance Festival showcases the culture of Sabah, Malaysia ANDONGAndong opens a treasury of East Asian culture with masks and stories Day three of the Andong mask dance festival: Malaysia guest-of-honor events and a global parade JEONJUJeonju deploys 223 dedicated managers to support local businesses ANDONGAndong International Mask Dance Festival 2026 opens: “Memories of the Mask, a Dance for All”JEONJUJeonju’s Inhu Library runs a special course on the future through AI films JEONNAM-GWANGJUJeonnam-Gwangju hands out 10,000 mental health guides for residents in hardship JEONJUJeonju steps up hands-on AI talent training for local industry Jeonju Zoo launches four daily animal ecology talks JEONJUJeonju extends its 50% farm machinery rental discount to year-endYEOSUGeumodo Festival brings autumn music to an island in Yeosu JEONBUKJeonbuk speeds its shift to high-tech industry on Hyundai’s ₩8.9 trillion Saemangeum investment SEONGBUK-GUSeongbuk-gu mayor Lee Seung-ro checks on residents through the Chuseok holiday ANDONGAndong farm products win over visitors at the 2026 Mask Dance Festival Andong Mask Dance Festival showcases the culture of Sabah, Malaysia ANDONGAndong opens a treasury of East Asian culture with masks and stories Day three of the Andong mask dance festival: Malaysia guest-of-honor events and a global parade JEONJUJeonju deploys 223 dedicated managers to support local businesses ANDONGAndong International Mask Dance Festival 2026 opens: “Memories of the Mask, a Dance for All”JEONJUJeonju’s Inhu Library runs a special course on the future through AI films JEONNAM-GWANGJUJeonnam-Gwangju hands out 10,000 mental health guides for residents in hardship JEONJUJeonju steps up hands-on AI talent training for local industry Jeonju Zoo launches four daily animal ecology talks JEONJUJeonju extends its 50% farm machinery rental discount to year-end

Latest stories on PEDIEN News, with headlines translated into English by our desk.

225+Newsrooms we have supplied

36,639Stories published on PEDIEN News in the last 30 days

244,807Stories published in the last 12 months

2016Operating since

Counts come straight from our systems and refresh every 15 minutes. The newsroom count uses our customer records from 2018 on. Last updated: 2026-09-25 22:30 KST

Every day, about 1,200 Korean press releases become stories on our desk: parsed, edited and sent to newsrooms in Korea, and out to the world.

How a Korean release becomes news.

Four stops, from a city hall in Korea to a published story. Scroll, and the route draws itself.

Stop 1 · Korean cities

Received

City halls, provincial offices, councils and companies email their releases, most of them as HWP files.

Stop 2 · Our desk

Parsed

Region-specific parsers pull out the headline, lead, body and photos, file by file.

Stop 3 · Editing

Edited

Titles are checked, copy is cleaned and photos are matched, under rules our editors set.

Stop 4 · Newsrooms

Published

Stories go live on partner newsrooms across Korea and on PEDIEN News.

Built in-house.

The parsers, the news model and the data behind them are ours, and they run on our own servers. Our Data Insight articles and monthly policy report are built on them.

Model

In-house news model

Fine-tuned on our editors’ corrections, running on our own servers.

How it works →Data

8,266 human corrections

Fixes our editors made to machine-parsed releases. No public corpus has them.

How it works →Parsers

280+ region parsers

Every city hall formats releases differently, so each region gets its own parser.

How it works →

Built on it

Data Insight

Original, data-backed articles from our own desks, with source data you can download.

How it works →Built on it

National Policy Report

A monthly report on how local policies spread across Korea, drawn from 800,000+ releases.

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What we do.

Six services, one desk.

Korea

Press distribution

Automated release-to-article supply for Korean online newsrooms, on a monthly plan.

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PEDIEN Wire

A news API in IPTC ninjs format. Browse for free and pay only for the stories you take.

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PEDIEN News

Our own newsroom, publishing news from every region of Korea.

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An English-language news site covering U.S. public-sector news.

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Studio

AI-produced video for cities, agencies and brands.

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Media buying & planning

Campaigns across online, broadcast, print and out-of-home media.

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Studio

Sample production: a one-minute dual live report between Seoul and New York, made with AI presenters.

Seoul ↔ New York dual live report (sample)

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Since 2017

Commercials, films and interviews

We have produced TV commercials, promotional films and interviews for public bodies and brands, and now make AI-produced video with every AI element labeled on screen.

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