Tuesday 19 July 2022 · below the Index · spike
DSME shipyard strike in South Korea
A labor dispute at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) in South Korea escalated in mid-July 2022, with workers occupying the shipyard and government and courts pressing for an end to the strike. The union offered to end the occupation by July 21.
Peak 51.1 on Wednesday 20 July 2022. The shaded band is the incident window.
Where the attention came from
Over the whole window this ran Public curiosity-led; on the peak day itself it read Mixed-led. When the two differ, the fast signals (social, news) spiked and faded while the slow ones (search, research) carried the tail. Social here is X alone — Bluesky only joins the series from July 2024 — so its level isn't directly comparable with today's series, though its share of this incident is real.
Bar = share of the extra attention over the whole window; the tick marks the share on the peak day alone, where the two differ.
How unusual it was
This was above 29% of all days since 2020, and the highest since Monday 11 July 2022.
How far it spread
No vessel type moved — 0 of 6 vessel-type groups drew clearly more readers than usual.
Bars start at 1× — normal readership for that vessel type, the weeks before the incident. Grey = no clear lift. "Over time" shows each group's daily readers through the window; "All 12 articles" breaks the six groups back into their members.
How it was framed the frame glossary →
Lead frame: freight markets. Trade press was 8% of in-scope coverage — the story had left the trade press and gone mainstream. (Historical coverage is scored on headlines only.)
Acting, or acted upon
In 3% of coverage shipping was the thing acted upon rather than the actor; 0% of it was strongly negative in tone.
What the coverage said
- South Korean President Yoon urges shipyard strike to end, negotiations stalledstraitstimes.com · 2022-07-21
- South Korea's Yoon Says DSME Shipyard Strike Causing 'Tremendous Damage' to Nation's Shipbuildinggcaptain.com · 2022-07-19
- Government and Courts Press DSME Subcontractors to End Shipyard Strikemaritime-executive.com · 2022-07-18
- South Korea's Yoon says 'illegal' shipyard strike cannot be tolerated, 'waited long enough'yahoo.com · 2022-07-19
- South Korea's Yoon Says Shipyard Strike Unacceptable, Signals Interventionibtimes.co.uk · 2022-07-19
- South Korean Daewoo shipyard workers will end strike if damage compensation lawsuits are dropped – union officialkelo.com · 2022-07-21
Gold rule = a national or international outlet, not a trade title.
- social = X only before Bluesky (2024-07-01); not comparable with today's series
- tier C: only a Wikipedia article, GDELT sub-vocabulary term, or social per-term query fired — not yet confirmed as a real maritime incident (Phase C naming/is_maritime_incident does that).
- integrated and peak-day verdicts differ (smoothing artefact likely)
- coverage scored on title only (no excerpt) — measured ~8pp frame precision cost vs title+excerpt (docs/HANDOVER-incidents.md §2.3)
- coverage filtered to articles matching this incident specifically (37/296 kept) — see coverage.filter.terms
Maritime Attention Index, incident: DSME shipyard strike in South Korea, peak 51.1 on 20 July 2022. maritimeattentionindex.com/incidents/2022-dsme-shipyard-strike-in-south-korea/