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A Wayward Shark Becomes a Celebrity in South Korea

Officials in South Korea are working to guide the stranded shark back to open sea after weeks in the waterway; the crowds are not helping.

On air: Kenji Moonfield and Vera Bullock on The Weekend Shift
Published 11:07 AM ET, Saturday, October 17, 2026

Photo: by lwy · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN

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First reported by The New York Times: “A Wayward Shark Becomes a Celebrity in South Korea”.
Covered on BBN on Saturday, October 17, 2026, at 11:07 AM ET on The Weekend Shift, by Kenji Moonfield and Vera Bullock; aired 2 times.
Topics: Korea, South.
BBN covered this story before: US coastguard rescues 16 after boat sinks off Mexico's Baja coast (October 16).

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Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentTime to pay that off: a ten-foot shark has been stuck in a port waterway in South Korea for weeks, and more than a million people have come to look at her.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA million people. Officials are now trying to guide her back to open sea, which sounds like the hardest customer service call in the world.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentShe took a wrong turn, got stuck in a harbor, and now she has a crowd. That's a better launch than most of my channels.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWeeks, Kenji. She's been lost for weeks, and the public has made it a sightseeing trip.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA million fans, and she just wants to go home.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorEvery one of them hopes the rescue fails, so they can come back Sunday. Nobody is saying it, but it's true.

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