South Korea isDecently Fucked.

We are pretty fucked, in measurable ways, with repeated stress events showing more persistence than anyone wanted.

0.0

Decently Fucked

South Korea severity index

36% confidence

Drivers

What moved South Korea

natural disaster

+7.9

M 6.8 - 5 km E of Uto, Japan

6.8 magnitude earthquake near 5 km E of Uto, Japan.

about 4 hours ago

usgs

conflict security

+7.4

South Korea’s 500,000 Drone Warriors Will Be a Hollow Force

War on the Rocks reported a recent conflict security signal connected to South Korea.

2 months ago

current_news

conflict security

+7.4

South Korea to train half a million military personnel to become ‘drone warriors’

The Guardian reported a recent conflict security signal connected to South Korea.

about 1 month ago

current_news

Key headlines

Evidence shaping the score

usgsabout 4 hours agonatural disasterKR

M 6.8 - 5 km E of Uto, Japan

6.8 magnitude earthquake near 5 km E of Uto, Japan.

79.0

Open source
current_news2 months agoconflict securityKR

South Korea’s 500,000 Drone Warriors Will Be a Hollow Force

War on the Rocks reported a recent conflict security signal connected to South Korea.

74.0

Open source
current_newsabout 1 month agoconflict securityKR

South Korea to train half a million military personnel to become ‘drone warriors’

The Guardian reported a recent conflict security signal connected to South Korea.

74.0

Open source
current_newsabout 3 hours agoconflict securityKR

South Korea Just Fired Its Deadliest Cruise Missile

Interesting Engineering reported a recent conflict security signal connected to South Korea.

61.6

Open source

Drivers

Domain breakdown

Conflict & security

Share of overall score 22%

54.7

Elevated

Limited confidence

Confidence 39%

Civil unrest

Share of overall score 14%

0.0

Quiet

Thin confidence

Confidence 24%

Macroeconomic stress

Share of overall score 14%

42.1

Elevated

Solid confidence

Confidence 77%

Public health

Share of overall score 10%

0.0

Quiet

Solid confidence

Confidence 56%

Natural disasters

Share of overall score 13%

44.6

Elevated

Limited confidence

Confidence 54%

Climate & environment

Share of overall score 10%

15.3

Active

Solid confidence

Confidence 63%

Cyber & infrastructure

Share of overall score 9%

0.0

Quiet

Thin confidence

Confidence 24%

Governance

Share of overall score 8%

33.3

Active

Limited confidence

Confidence 39%

Sparse data

Country coverage is thinner than the global read because some lanes still rely on proxy matching or focal-city sampling instead of fully local structured feeds.

Context

What is shaping South Korea

  • Conflict & security is currently the hottest live lane.
  • 16 live evidence items are shaping this reading across 8 covered domains.
  • Country coverage is thinner than the global read because some lanes still rely on proxy matching or focal-city sampling instead of fully local structured feeds.

Comparison

South Korea versus the global baseline

South Korea

30.6

Decently Fucked

Global baseline

71.7

Crisis-Level Fucked

South Korea currently reads cooler than the global baseline by 41.1 points.

Trend

Score drift

24h

-3.8

down

Compared with stored snapshot from 2026-07-27 03:34 UTC.

7d

-31.7

down

Compared with stored snapshot from 2026-07-21 03:34 UTC.

30d

-28.7

down

Compared with stored snapshot from 2026-06-28 03:36 UTC.

Integrity

Source health and freshness

USGS Earthquake Catalog

Freshness: live-ish

operational

6 earthquakes returned in the current 7-day query window.

Last success: 17 minutes ago

Latency: 1198 ms

Open-Meteo Weather & Air Quality

Freshness: live-ish

operational

1 monitoring point sampled successfully.

Last success: 22 minutes ago

Latency: 1424 ms

GDELT Global Event Monitor

Freshness: stale

offline

Request timed out after 8000 ms

Last success: None yet

Latency: n/a

WHO Disease Outbreak News

Freshness: live-ish

operational

12 outbreak bulletins parsed from the current WHO feed.

Last success: 11 days ago

Latency: 6115 ms

World Bank macro indicators

Freshness: fresh

operational

1 country macro snapshot cleared the stress threshold.

Last success: 15 days ago

Latency: 1373 ms

Current news signal

Freshness: live-ish

operational

8 classified headline signals captured across 1 successful country.

Last success: 17 minutes ago

Latency: 2217 ms