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Acts are ranked by momentum, not by popularity or sales. The score blends YouTube view velocity, English and Korean Wikipedia pageviews, and the number of recent headlines from Yonhap, Soompi and Koreaboo. An act with a sudden jump in activity ranks above a bigger act that is flat. Arrows show rank changes compared with a few hours earlier, and NEW marks acts that just entered the list.

KR FIRST marks an act whose Korean-language signals (Korean media coverage and Korean Wikipedia interest) moved before English-language coverage. It is an early heads-up that something is happening in Korea that US fans may not have seen yet.

The data is refreshed about every 30 minutes. The app fetches the latest data when you open it and when you pull to refresh. The "Showing" line in Settings tells you whether you are looking at live data, the offline cache, or bundled sample data.

Touch and hold an empty spot on your Home Screen, tap + in the top corner, search for Seoul Rising, pick a size, and tap Add Widget. The Widget preview in the app's Settings shows all sizes.

iOS decides when a widget refreshes and gives each app a limited refresh budget, so a widget can lag behind the feed. Opening the Seoul Rising app refreshes it right away. Also check that Low Power Mode and Background App Refresh are not restricting it, and that you have a connection. If it still looks stale, remove the widget and add it again.

If the live feed cannot be reached, the app falls back to its last cached copy, then to bundled sample data, and labels which one it is showing. Check your connection and pull to refresh. In Settings, use Test connection to check the feed.

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