Son Heung-min is drawing 27x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Son Heung-min is a South Korean professional footballer who plays as a left winger for Major League Soccer club Los Angeles FC and captains the South Korea national team. Known for his speed, finishing, two-footedness, and ability to link play, he is the top Asian goalscorer in both Premier League and UEFA Champions League history, and is widely regarded as the greatest Asian player of all time.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 5 edits to this article on 2026-06-12, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• International

What changed that day

The article grew by 210 characters that day. The largest single addition was 162 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-06-12 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.

How this was measured

Views are Wikimedia's own pageview counts for en.wikipedia, filtered to agent=user so automated traffic is excluded. The baseline is the median of the previous 60 days, which is used instead of the mean so that an earlier surge cannot flatten a later one. The multiple is the day's views divided by that median.