⚡ Captchas in Korea

A CAPTCHA (an acronym for Completely Automated Public Turing test To tell Computers and Humans Apart) is a security technology used to verify whether a user is a human or a bot (computer program).

Korea is an East Asian country with a population of around 52 million people.

According to our research, captcha services are used on 1.5% of websites from Korea.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top captcha services in Korea in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is reCAPTCHA, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 82.4% share.
It is followed by hCaptcha with 13.4% and Cloudflare Turnstile with 9.3%.

reCAPTCHA 82.4%
hCaptcha 13.4%
Cloudflare Turnstile 9.3%
GeeTest 0.5%
AWS WAF Captcha 0.5%
Friendly Captcha 0.3%
Yidun Captcha 0.3%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top services that are more popular in Korea than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

4. GeeTest ^(-4)
5. AWS WAF Captcha ^(-2)
7. Yidun Captcha ^(-4)

✨ Best Captcha Services

Below is a more detailed list of 7 captcha services used on sites from Korea, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	reCAPTCHA Mountain View, California, United States A Google service that protects websites from spam, fraud, and automated abuse by distinguishing human users from bots. Free tier$8+/month	82.4%
2	hCaptcha San Francisco, California, United States A security service for detecting and preventing human and automated abuse on websites and applications, often used as a drop-in alternative to reCAPTCHA. Free$99+/month	13.4%
3	Cloudflare Turnstile San Francisco, California, United States A user-friendly CAPTCHA alternative that verifies human visitors without requiring them to solve interactive puzzles or identify objects. Free$$$	9.3%
4	GeeTest Wuhan, China A Chinese provider of CAPTCHA and bot management solutions. $$$	0.5%
5	AWS WAF Captcha Seattle, Washington, United States A feature of the AWS WAF web application firewall that helps protect web applications by requiring requests that match specific criteria to solve a captcha puzzle or silent challenge before proceeding. $$$	0.5%
6	Friendly Captcha Woerthsee, Germany A European captcha service that protects websites from bots and automated abuse while prioritizing user privacy, security, and accessibility. Free€9+/month	0.3%
7	Yidun Captcha Hangzhou, China A captcha service provided by the Chinese company NetEase.	0.3%

👉 See Also

🌎 Captchas in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 25,802 websites from Korea.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.