⚡ 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 79.3% of websites from Korea.

Statistics based on 28K+ 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 93.5% share.
It is followed by Swiper with 35.6% and Slick with 23.5%.

jQuery 93.5%
Swiper 35.6%
Slick 23.5%
Facebook SDK 19.4%
bxSlider 12.6%
jQuery Cookie 9.8%
Owl Carousel 8.2%
jQuery Easing 8.2%
Animate On Scroll 8.1%
Modernizr 7%
ImagesLoaded 6.9%
SystemJS 6.8%
GSAP 6%
React 6%
Clipboard.js 5.6%

🚀 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 ^(-23)
8. jQuery Easing ^(-10)
9. Animate On Scroll ^(-23)
10. Modernizr ^(-2)
12. SystemJS ^(-27)
13. GSAP ^(-23)
15. Clipboard.js ^(-54)
16. 🏩 Masonry ^(-11)

✨ Best JavaScript Libraries

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 271 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	93.5%
2	Swiper Weston, Florida, United States A modern touch slider library for building responsive sliders and carousels with hardware-accelerated transitions. FreeOpen source	35.6%
3	Slick An open-source, fully responsive and accessible carousel library. FreeOpen source	23.5%
4	Facebook SDK Menlo Park, California, United States A library that provides client-side tools for Social Plugins, Login, and Graph API calls. Free	19.4%
5	bxSlider An open-source, fully loaded, responsive jQuery content slider. FreeOpen source	12.6%
6	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	9.8%
7	Owl Carousel Germany A touch enabled jQuery plugin that lets you create a beautiful, responsive carousel slider. 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	Animate On Scroll A CSS-driven, lightweight library to animate elements on your page as you scroll. FreeOpen source	8.1%
10	Modernizr A JavaScript library that detects the availability of HTML, CSS and JavaScript features in the user's browser. FreeOpen source	7%
11	ImagesLoaded Alexandria, Virginia, United States A JavaScript library that detects when images have been loaded. FreeOpen source	6.9%
12	SystemJS Vancouver, Canada A hookable, standards-based, dynamic ES module module loader. FreeOpen source	6.8%
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%
14	React Menlo Park, California, United States A popular open-source JavaScript library for building dynamic user interfaces, created by Facebook. FreeOpen source	6%
15	Clipboard.js A modern approach to copy text to clipboard. FreeOpen source	5.6%
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	5.1%
17	Chosen A select box enhancer for jQuery and Prototype that makes long, unwieldy select boxes much more user friendly. FreeOpen source	4.8%
18	Moment.js A JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. FreeOpen source	4.8%
19	jQuery Validation Provides drop-in validation for your existing forms, while making it easy to customize to fit your application. FreeOpen source	4.4%
20	Waypoints West Linn, Oregon, United States A library that makes it easy to execute a function whenever you scroll to an element. FreeOpen source	4.1%
21	Lodash A modern JavaScript utility library that simplifies working with arrays, numbers, objects, strings, and composite functions. FreeOpen source	3.9%
22	Wow.js 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	3.6%
24	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	3.4%
25	Axios A promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. FreeOpen source	3.3%

👉 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 28,099 websites from Korea.
We currently track the presence of 311 JavaScript libraries across the web.
Of these, 271 were detected on websites from Korea.
Statistics were last calculated on June 24, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.