⚡ JavaScript Libraries in Korea

JavaScript libraries are collections of prewritten code that provide reusable functions and components for building interactive features and handling common client-side tasks in web applications.

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

According to our statistics, JavaScript libraries are used on 79.6% of websites from Korea.

Statistics based on 29K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top JavaScript libraries in Korea in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is jQuery, which dominates the market with a substantial 93.3% share.
It is followed by Swiper with 35.8% and Slick with 23.8%.

jQuery 93.3%
Swiper 35.8%
Slick 23.8%
Facebook SDK 19.2%
bxSlider 12.6%
jQuery Cookie 9.8%
Animate On Scroll 8.2%
jQuery Easing 8.2%
Owl Carousel 8.2%
Modernizr 6.9%
ImagesLoaded 6.9%
React 6.2%
GSAP 6.2%
SystemJS 5.9%
Clipboard.js 5.7%

🚀 Highlights

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

3. Slick ^(-3)
5. bxSlider ^(-30)
6. jQuery Cookie ^(-24)
7. Animate On Scroll ^(-25)
8. jQuery Easing ^(-10)
10. Modernizr ^(-1)
13. GSAP ^(-23)
14. SystemJS ^(-30)
15. Clipboard.js ^(-53)
16. 🏩 Masonry ^(-11)

✨ Best JavaScript Libraries

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 273 JavaScript libraries used on sites from Korea, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	jQuery San Francisco, California, United States A fast, small, feature-rich JavaScript library designed to simplify HTML DOM tree traversal and manipulation, event handling, CSS animations, and Ajax. FreeOpen source	93.3%
2	Swiper Weston, Florida, United States A modern touch slider library for building responsive sliders and carousels with hardware-accelerated transitions. FreeOpen source	35.8%
3	Slick New York, United States An open-source jQuery carousel library for creating responsive, touch-enabled, and keyboard-accessible content sliders. FreeOpen source	23.8%
4	Facebook SDK Menlo Park, California, United States A library that provides client-side tools for Social Plugins, Login, and Graph API calls. Free	19.2%
5	bxSlider Chicago, Illinois, United States An open-source responsive jQuery content slider for displaying images, videos, and HTML content as slideshows or carousels. FreeOpen source	12.6%
6	jQuery Cookie Germany A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	9.8%
7	Animate On Scroll Poznań, Poland A lightweight JavaScript library that uses CSS3 transitions to animate webpage elements as they enter the viewport during scrolling. FreeOpen source	8.2%
8	jQuery Easing Wilberfoss, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom A jQuery plugin that adds 10+ advanced easing animations. FreeOpen source	8.2%
9	Owl Carousel Germany A deprecated open-source jQuery plugin for creating responsive, touch-enabled, and accessible carousel sliders. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	8.2%
10	Modernizr San Francisco, California, United States An open-source feature detection library that identifies browser support for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript features and allows websites to adapt accordingly. FreeOpen source	6.9%
11	ImagesLoaded Alexandria, Virginia, United States An open-source JavaScript library that detects when images and CSS background images have finished loading, allowing code to run only after loading is complete. FreeOpen source	6.9%
12	React Menlo Park, California, United States A popular open-source JavaScript library for building dynamic user interfaces through reusable and stateful UI components, originally created by Facebook. FreeOpen source	6.2%
13	GSAP San Francisco, California, United States An open-source JavaScript animation library that enables developers to create high-performance, cross-browser animations for HTML elements, CSS properties, SVG, canvas, and JavaScript objects. FreeOpen source	6.2%
14	SystemJS Vancouver, Canada A hookable, standards-based, dynamic ES module module loader. FreeOpen source	5.9%
15	Clipboard.js San Francisco, California, United States A lightweight JavaScript library for copying text to the clipboard from web pages. FreeOpen source	5.7%
16	🏩 Masonry Alexandria, Virginia, United States A JavaScript layout library that produces a Pinterest-style cascading grid where elements are organized in a compact, space-efficient layout. FreeOpen source	5.2%
17	Chosen Milan, Italy A select box enhancer for jQuery and Prototype that makes long, unwieldy select boxes more user friendly. FreeOpen source	4.9%
18	Moment.js San Francisco, California, United States An open-source JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	4.9%
19	jQuery Validation Cologne, Germany The jQuery Validation plugin provides drop-in validation for your existing forms, while making it easy to customize to fit your application. FreeOpen source	4.4%
20	Lodash San Francisco, California, United States A modern JavaScript utility library that simplifies working with arrays, numbers, objects, strings, and composite functions. FreeOpen source	4%
21	Waypoints West Linn, Oregon, United States An open-source JavaScript library that executes functions when users scroll to specific elements on a web page. FreeOpen source	4%
22	Wow.js United Kingdom A JavaScript library that reveals CSS animations when you scroll. FreeOpen source	3.7%
23	Underscore.js Boston, Massachusetts, United States A utility library for JavaScript that provides support for functional programming helpers (each, map, reduce, filter) without extending any built-in JavaScript objects. FreeOpen source	3.5%
24	jQuery LazyLoad Finland A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	3.5%
25	Axios Salt Lake City, Utah, United States A promise-based HTTP client for making HTTP requests from browsers and Node.js applications. FreeOpen source	3.4%

👉 See Also

🌎 JavaScript Libraries 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 29,335 websites from Korea.
We currently track the presence of 312 JavaScript libraries across the web.
Of these, 273 were detected on websites from Korea.
Statistics were last calculated on August 13, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.