⚡ Content Management Systems in Korea

Content Management Systems (CMS) are software solutions that allow users to create, edit, and organize website content without coding, simplifying ongoing website maintenance.

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

According to our research, content management systems are used on 20.2% of websites from Korea.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top CMS platforms in Korea in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is WordPress with an impressive share of 54.1%, followed by Gnuboard with 36.4% and XpressEngine with 3.3%.

WordPress 54.1%
Gnuboard 36.4%
XpressEngine 3.3%
Rhymix 3.2%
Adobe Experience Manager 0.7%
Drupal 0.6%
Contentful 0.2%
HubSpot CMS 0.2%
Ghost 0.1%
Liferay 0.1%
HCL Digital Experience 0.1%
Joomla 0.1%
Strapi 0.1%
Indexhibit 0.08%
Other 0.7%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Gnuboard ^(-18)
3. XpressEngine ^(-84)
4. Rhymix ^(-92)
5. Adobe Experience Manager ^(-2)
7. Contentful ^(-2)
9. Ghost ^(-20)
10. Liferay ^(-12)
11. HCL Digital Experience ^(-58)
13. Strapi ^(-15)
14. Indexhibit ^(-80)

✨ Best CMS Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 42 CMS platforms used on sites from Korea, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	WordPress San Francisco, California, United States A widely used open-source content management system built on PHP and MySQL. FreeOpen source	54.1%
2	Gnuboard Seoul, Korea A PHP-based open-source bulletin board system and content management solution from South Korea that lets sites run discussion forums, community pages, and article boards on the LAMP stack. FreeOpen source	36.4%
3	XpressEngine Seongnam, Korea A Korean open source content management system based on the Laravel framework and developed with the support of Naver. FreeOpen source	3.3%
4	Rhymix Daejeon, Korea A PHP-based open source content management system forked from XpressEngine. FreeOpen source	3.2%
5	Adobe Experience Manager San Jose, California, United States A software solution that's equal part content management system and digital asset management system. $50,000+/year	0.7%
6	Drupal Portland, Oregon, United States A modular open-source content management platform written in PHP. FreeOpen source	0.6%
7	Contentful Berlin, Germany A commercial, cloud-based, headless content management system that structures content for use across multiple digital platforms via APIs. Free$300+/month	0.2%
8	HubSpot CMS Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A hosted platform for building websites, blogs, landing pages, apps, and emails that integrates tightly with HubSpot CRM and other marketing tools. Free$15+/seat/month	0.2%
9	Ghost Singapore An open-source content management system built on Node.js. FreeOpen source$11+/month	0.1%
10	Liferay Diamond Bar, California, United States An open-source enterprise web platform for building business solutions, intranets, customer portals, and digital experiences across web and mobile channels. FreeOpen source$$$	0.1%
11	HCL Digital Experience Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India A web portal solution that provides an integration framework for enterprise information systems. Free$$$	0.1%
12	Joomla New York, United States An open-source content management system written in PHP. FreeOpen source	0.1%
13	Strapi San Francisco, California, United States An open-source headless CMS built with Node.js and TypeScript that connects to various databases and frontend frameworks. FreeOpen source$45+/month	0.1%
14	Indexhibit An open-source CMS that is primarily used to create online portfolios. FreeOpen source	0.08%
15	TYPO3 Düsseldorf, Germany An open-source enterprise content management system written in PHP that supports multisite and multilingual installations and has a large extension repository. FreeOpen source	0.08%
16	Craft Bend, Oregon, United States A flexible open-source content management system written in PHP that supports MySQL or PostgreSQL databases and is built on the Yii framework. Free$279+	0.08%
17	Arc XP Washington, DC, United States A cloud digital experience platform for media companies that includes a content management system, commerce engine, and front-end website platform. $600,000+/year	0.06%
18	Optimizely CMS New York, United States A cloud-based content management system with enterprise-level features and headless delivery capabilities. $36,000+/year	0.06%
19	Storyblok Linz, Austria An enterprise-grade headless content management system with a visual editor. Free$99+/month	0.06%
20	Sanity San Francisco, California, United States A cloud-based headless CMS that stores content as structured data in a hosted content lake and delivers it via APIs to any frontend. Free$15+/seat/month	0.04%
21	CoreMedia Hamburg, Germany An enterprise-class, API-driven digital experience platform that combines a headless content repository with advanced digital asset management. $20,000+/year	0.04%
22	Finalsite Glastonbury, Connecticut, United States A cloud-based community relationship management platform for K-12 schools that combines website management, communications, and enrollment tools in a single system. $6,000+/year	0.04%
23	WordPress VIP San Francisco, California, United States A fully hosted enterprise solution based on WordPress, designed to support high-traffic websites with enhanced performance, security, and scalability. $25,000+/year	0.04%
24	Z-BlogPHP A Chinese open source blogging content management system developed with PHP. FreeOpen source	0.04%
25	K2 Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles A Joomla content management extension that replaces and enhances the default article system. FreeOpen source	0.04%

👉 See Also

🌎 CMS 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.