⚡ Payments in Korea

Online payment services allow businesses to securely accept and process transactions by supporting a variety of payment methods such as credit and debit cards, digital wallets, and Buy Now, Pay Later options.

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

According to our data, payment services are detected on 6.1% of websites from Korea.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is KG Inicis with an impressive share of 36.9%, followed by PayPal with 26.7% and NHN KCP with 16.5%.

KG Inicis 36.9%
PayPal 26.7%
NHN KCP 16.5%
Toss 6.6%
NICEPAY 4.9%
Naver Pay 3.5%
PortOne 3.3%
KSNET 2.6%
Shop Pay 1.5%
Stripe 1.3%
Payco 1.2%
Visa 0.7%
Mastercard 0.6%
PayPal Enterprise Payments 0.4%
Google Pay 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.

1. KG Inicis ^(-36)
3. NHN KCP ^(-55)
5. NICEPAY ^(-95)
6. Naver Pay ^(-108)
8. KSNET ^(-117)
11. Payco ^(-118)
17. Link ^(-5)
25. Checkout.com ^(-34)

✨ Best Payment Services

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 38 payment services used on sites from Korea, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	KG Inicis Seoul, Korea An e-commerce payment service provider based in South Korea.	36.9%
2	PayPal San Jose, California, United States An online payment service that allows users to send funds from a credit card, bank account, or PayPal balance to merchants without sharing their financial details. $$$	26.7%
3	NHN KCP Seongnam, Korea A South Korean electronic payment service.	16.5%
-	Toss Seoul, Korea A South Korean financial services platform that offers banking, payments, securities trading, and insurance services through a single mobile app.	6.6%
5	NICEPAY Seoul, Korea An online payment gateway service based in South Korea.	4.9%
6	Naver Pay Seongnam, Korea A Korean mobile payment service provided by Naver Corporation.	3.5%
-	PortOne Singapore An Asian payment orchestration platform that enables merchants to access over 100 local and global payment methods through a single API integration. $$$	3.3%
8	KSNET Seoul, Korea A Korean business-to-business (B2B) payment service provider.	2.6%
9	Shop Pay Ottawa, Ontario, Canada A Shopify-exclusive accelerated checkout and payment method that lets customers save their billing, shipping, and payment information to complete orders quickly on Shopify stores and in the Shop app. Free$$$	1.5%
10	Stripe San Francisco, California, United States A payments processing platform that helps businesses accept online, mobile, and in-store payments with a single integration. $$$	1.3%
11	Payco Seoul, Korea A Korean digital wallet and payment app.	1.2%
12	Visa San Francisco, California, United States A global payment network processor that enables banks, merchants, and cardholders to conduct debit, credit, and prepaid transactions across more than 200 countries and territories.	0.7%
13	Mastercard Purchase, New York, United States A global payment-network processor that connects merchants, banks and card-holders for debit, credit and prepaid payments.	0.6%
14	PayPal Enterprise Payments San Jose, California, United States A full-stack payments platform that makes it easy for businesses to accept payments in their apps or websites. $$$	0.4%
15	Google Pay Mountain View, California, United States A mobile payment and digital wallet service developed by Google that enables users to make contactless and online payments using supported Android phones, tablets, and wearable devices. Free	0.3%
16	Klarna Stockholm, Sweden A Swedish payment service provider and licensed bank that specializes in Buy Now, Pay Later options for online and in-store purchases. $$$	0.3%
17	Link San Francisco, California, United States A one-click checkout feature from Stripe that allows shoppers to securely save and reuse their payment and shipping information across participating online merchants. $$$	0.3%
18	Wirecard Aschheim, Bavaria, Germany A full-service provider for merchants, offering POS infrastructure, payment processing and acquiring services.	0.2%
19	Worldline La Défense, France A European provider of payment and transaction services.	0.2%
20	Discover Riverwoods, Illinois, United States A global payment network and card issuer offering credit and debit cards as well as processing services.	0.2%
21	Afterpay Melbourne, Victoria, Australia A buy-now-pay-later payment service that lets shoppers split purchases into installment plans at checkout both online and in stores without interest if payments are made on time. $$$	0.2%
22	Arcot Palo Alto, United States A payment authentication network powered by 3-D Secure (3DS).	0.2%
23	Affirm San Francisco, California, United States A Buy Now, Pay Later financial services platform that lets consumers split online and in-store purchases into scheduled installments. $$$	0.2%
24	American Express New York, United States A global payment network and card issuer that provides charge, credit, and prepaid cards.	0.2%
25	Checkout.com London, United Kingdom A global payments platform that includes a gateway, acquirer, and processor.	0.1%

👉 See Also

🌎 Payments 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.