⚡ 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 20.1% of websites from Korea.

Statistics based on 26K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ 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 54.2%, followed by Gnuboard with 36.3% and XpressEngine with 3.4%.

WordPress 54.2%
Gnuboard 36.3%
XpressEngine 3.4%
Rhymix 3.1%
Adobe Experience Manager 0.7%
Drupal 0.6%
Contentful 0.2%
HubSpot CMS 0.2%
Ghost 0.1%
Strapi 0.1%
Joomla 0.1%
HCL Digital Experience 0.1%
Liferay 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 ^(-85)
4. Rhymix ^(-93)
5. Adobe Experience Manager ^(-2)
7. Contentful ^(-2)
9. Ghost ^(-20)
10. Strapi ^(-18)
12. HCL Digital Experience ^(-57)
13. Liferay ^(-10)
14. Indexhibit ^(-81)

✨ 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	54.2%
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	36.3%
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	3.4%
4	Rhymix Daejeon, Korea A PHP-based open source content management system forked from XpressEngine. FreeOpen source	3.1%
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 that serves as a publishing platform for blogs, newsletters, and membership-based websites. FreeOpen source$18+/month	0.1%
10	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%
11	Joomla New York, United States An open-source content management system written in PHP. FreeOpen source	0.1%
12	HCL Digital Experience Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India A web portal solution that provides an integration framework for enterprise information systems. Free$$$	0.1%
13	Liferay Diamond Bar, California, United States An open-source enterprise web platform for building business solutions, intranets, customer portals, and digital experiences across web and mobile channels. FreeOpen source$$$	0.1%
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	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%
18	Arc XP Washington, DC, United States A cloud-based digital experience platform developed by The Washington Post for media companies that combines a headless content management system, commerce capabilities, and front-end experience tools. $9,000+/month	0.06%
19	Z-BlogPHP A Chinese open source blogging content management system developed with PHP. FreeOpen source	0.04%
20	K2 Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles A Joomla content management extension that replaces and extends the default article system with a structured content framework. FreeOpen source	0.04%
21	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%
22	Builder.io San Francisco, California, United States A visual development platform and headless CMS that lets teams create, edit, and publish websites and applications with drag-and-drop editors, integrated with React, Vue.js, Svelte, Qwik, and other frameworks. Free$30+/user/month	0.04%
23	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%
24	Mastodon Berlin, Germany Mastodon is free, open-source software for running self-hosted, federated social networking services based on the ActivityPub protocol. FreeOpen source	0.04%
25	Storyblok Linz, Austria An enterprise-grade headless content management system with a visual editor. Free$99+/month	0.04%

👉 See Also

🌎 CMS in other countries

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 26,390 websites from Korea.
We currently track the presence of 290 CMS platforms across the web.
Of these, 42 were detected on websites from Korea.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.