- ISO 3166
KR- Main language + region
ko-KR- Currency
- KRW · South Korean Won
- Region
- APAC · CJK
South Korea
South Korea has 52.1M people, and 51M of them are online. Korean is the most widely spoken language at 100%, one of 1 language CLDR lists here. Korean is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to ko-KR.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
51M
0%world median 81%100%
98% of 52.1M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$36,227
Higher than 78% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.
Can pay online
97%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
1
Korean 100%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
522
Very lowVery high
Moderate proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers. It never enters any score on this site.
Adult literacy
98%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
Most spoken in South Korea
share of 52.1M people
- Koreanofficial100%52.1M
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.
CLDR records Korean in 6 territories and 79.2M speakers in total; South Korea holds 66% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Korean profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (ko-KR).
Plural categories
1
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text. One form fits every count here.
Script family
Hangul
Bundle a Noto-class webfont that covers this script. OS defaults vary.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
2026년 4월 21일
Short: 26. 4. 21.
Time
PM 6:30
Week starts Sun
Currency
₩1,235
1,234.56 in KRW · South Korean Won
The engineering behind the flags: Font fallback: why the OS picks the wrong glyphs for this script