koreanpulse

Get pinged in English the moment a 5%-rule filing or DART event hits a stock you care about.

We watch your KRX tickers in Korean and ping you in English when something material moves — foreign-holder 5%-rule disclosures, Korean activist filings, major DART events. KRX itself, ASIFMA, Wellington, Aberdeen, and Matthews Asia are all on record that the English flow off Korean primary sources is structurally inadequate. Bloomberg charges $24K/yr and still misses the front page of 전자신문. We translate, classify, and route the same data into your Discord / Telegram / inbox.

🚧 Beta — queries + hosted translation are live today; watchlist polling and alert dispatch ship Q3 2026. Join the waitlist to lock in the launch rate.

2026 inflection

Foreign retail just got direct access to KRX

  • 2025-12: IRC (Investor Registration Certificate) abolished — foreign account openings accelerated 3–4×.
  • 2026-04 (last week): Hana Securities × Futu Securities (3.3M HK fintech retail) launched Korean stock trading.
  • 2026-05-04 (yesterday): Samsung Securities × Interactive Brokers (4.6M global retail) pilot launched. Same day: foreigners net-bought a record 3.9 trillion KRW (~$2.7B) on KOSPI+NXT.
  • ~7.9M foreign retail accounts now have a wired path into Korean equities — up from ~0 two years ago.

Sources: FSC, KRX Data, Korea Times, KED Global, 주간한국. The English-language data layer for this audience is what koreanpulse ships.

Why people are paying attention to KRX

  • English IR gap is structural. KRX itself, ASIFMA, Wellington, Aberdeen, Matthews Asia all on record: Korean disclosure flow into English is structurally inadequate. We are anchored on this gap.
  • Real-time on-chain-style disclosures. DART publishes activist 5% filings, insider trades, and major decisions in hours. Closer to a blockchain explorer than to quarterly 10-Qs.
  • MSCI Developed Market reclassification path. Korea sits on the watchlist. Foreign capital inflow expected if upgraded. The mid-curve window opens before the headline trade.
  • K-themes are global themes. HBM, EV batteries, K-defense, K-biotech, K-content, shipbuilding — same trades you already follow on US tape, with different microstructure and faster filings.
  • Crypto-grade volatility, equity-grade infra. KOSPI / KOSDAQ small-mid caps move 10–30% on a single filing. T+2 settlement, low fees, retail-accessible.

Free public daily snapshot

Updated KST 16:30 every weekday at koreanpulse.dev/today: foreign-holder 5%-rule disclosures (BlackRock, Vanguard, Norges, GIC, Temasek, Goldman, JPM, Morgan Stanley…), Korean activist filings, major DART disclosures — all summarised in English. Public, no login. Treat it as a preview of the daily digest paying customers get pushed to their channel of choice.

Machine-readable JSON at /today.json. Last 30 days at /today/YYYY-MM-DD.

🚧 BetaSolo trial opens Q3 2026

Queries + hosted translation cache are live today. Watchlist polling, alert dispatch, seat enforcement, and per-tier retention windows ship Q3 2026. Today the only runtime-enforced difference between tiers is the monthly query cap (2K / 15K / 100K). Watchlist counts, alert-channel limits, seat caps, and archive retention are paper limits until the polling/dispatch loop lands. Join the waitlist and you keep the launch rate — no auto-charge until the workflow ships.

Pricing

Lock-in pricing — early supporters keep the launch rate. Pick the tier that matches how many tickers you'll watch and how many channels you'll want pinged once polling/dispatch ships.

Cloud Solo
$29/mo
Individual traders, solo analysts
  • ·Hosted translation cache (no OpenAI key needed)
  • ·~2,000 queries/mo (live today)
  • ·5 watchlists (Q3 2026)
  • ·30-day archive search (Q3 2026)
  • ·1 Discord or Telegram alert channel (Q3 2026)
  • ·Foreign-holder + activist tracking (live today)
  • ·Daily English digest (live today)
Cloud Analyst
$79/mo
Boutique fund analysts, paid-research-budget retail
  • ·Everything in Solo
  • ·~15,000 queries/mo (live today)
  • ·25 watchlists (Q3 2026)
  • ·1-year archive search (Q3 2026)
  • ·Multi-channel alerts (Discord / Telegram / Email) (Q3 2026)
  • ·Saved searches (Q3 2026)
  • ·CSV / JSON export (Q3 2026)
  • ·Priority cache + priority refresh
Cloud Desk
$249/mo
Small research teams, boutique long/short desks
  • ·Everything in Analyst
  • ·~100,000 queries/mo (live today)
  • ·3 seats, shared watchlists (Q3 2026)
  • ·Slack / webhook alerts (Q3 2026)
  • ·Team archive (Q3 2026)
  • ·Priority support

Annual billing −20% at launch. Cloud customers still install the local MCP (one `pip install` + 4-line Claude Desktop config); the Cloudflare Worker holds our OpenAI key and validates your license, so no OpenAI key is needed on your side. Enterprise / SLA: contact us.

Run it yourself (OSS)

Source is AGPL-3.0. Self-hosters can run the MCP server locally with their own DART and OpenAI keys — community support only, no hosted archive, no shared translation cache, no alerts. This path is for hackers and max-privacy users; the paid Cloud tiers above are what designed to ship you the watchlist-to-alert workflow once polling/dispatch lands (Q3 2026).

What runs under the hood

When you connect your AI client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, any MCP client) to the local MCP (Cloud customers still `pip install` locally — only translation calls hit our Worker), these tools are what your agent calls against the cached, classified Korean data layer. You don't need to know they exist to get the alert in your Discord once dispatch ships — but if you're building agent workflows on top, here's the surface.

track_korean_filings

Real-time DART filings, optionally translated. Same source institutional analysts read.

monitor_foreign_holders

Foreign 5%-rule filings by BlackRock / Vanguard / Norges / GIC / Temasek / Goldman / JPM + 13 more. Leading indicator of foreign capital flow.

monitor_activist_investors

Activist 5%-rule filings auto-tagged for KCGI / Align / Truston / Anda / Cha / VIP / ValueAct / Elliott.

search_korean_industry_news

etnews + 한국경제 RSS classified into 16 industries (semis, batteries, defense, biotech…).

More shipping: summarize_korean_earnings_call, get_ma_pipeline, track_government_policy, and webhook alert delivery (Discord / Telegram / Slack).

Get notified at launch

One email when the Solo trial opens and the marketplaces accept us. The role field is optional — it helps us figure out who's actually showing up.