Video taking off 66x its usual first day

Bukangi, Busan's famous canal shark, swims free on the third try

Floating platforms, divers and drones herded the endangered dusky shark out of the city canal before autumn chilled the water.

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Reuters Story of October 22, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 574,466 views a day, 66 times a normal first day on this channel (8,760).

The rescue attempt that freed shark from South Korean canal

"South Korea's most famous shark Bukangi has finally made her way to freedom," Reuters producer Hyun Young Yi says in the report's opening line. The rest of the short film explains why that took more than a month.

Bukangi is a female dusky shark, an endangered species, about three meters long. She was first spotted in September in a narrow canal in Busan, the port city, where she swam between skyscrapers and parks. More than a million people came to look at her. The footage shows the crowds lining the bridges, and viewers keep pointing out how calm and orderly they were, and how clean the urban canal looks.

"Getting Bukangi back at sea proved to be trickier than expected," Yi says. Water jets did not work. Neither did giant nets. The third plan used floating platforms, divers and drones to push her toward the sea while blocking her usual move of circling back.

Time was running short. Bukangi had minor injuries and had not fed. Kim Hyun-Woo, who led the operation for the National Institute of Fisheries Science, says dusky sharks do best in water between 18°C and 26°C. "So by mid-November, the environment will no longer be suitable for it." The report also links the shark sightings to warming waters.

Reuters' most watched Shorts lean toward cyclones, floods and a mega prison. This one has a happy ending, and it passed about 300,000 views in eight hours. A Tehran street installation showing a Trump impersonator behind bars, posted the same day, also started faster than usual, though far behind the shark. In the comments, several viewers ask whether Bukangi was tagged so people can see where she goes next.

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What viewers say

Notice how calm and courteous all those people were standing on the bridge looking for the shark. Also notice how relatively clean the canal looks for an urban waterway.
@VoicesEnEspanolSee it on YouTube
My 5-minute break turned into watching the entire video.
@AbduqadirsharifMananbajiSee it on YouTube
So lovely! That she is safe now- and that a million South Koreans gathered to see the lost shark.
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I hope they tagged her. It would be interesting to see what she does next.😊❤
@doogandoggin2571See it on YouTube
Cheering from California 👏😊Godspeed "Bukangi!"🦈
@theresamealer3314See it on YouTube
I’m so glad the shark could be helped! Look how many people she had cheering her on
@averycheesypotatoSee it on YouTube
It’s a good thing no one tried to “jump the shark”
@cheechalker8430See it on YouTube
Good news, glad to hear it.
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