⚡ Social Media Platforms in Korea

Social media is online platforms where people can create and share content, connect with others through likes, comments, and messages, and build social communities.

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

According to our data, social media platforms are detected on 41.6% of websites from Korea.

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

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Instagram with an impressive share of 69.3%, followed by Facebook with 54.9% and Naver Blog with 44.5%.

Instagram 69.3%
Facebook 54.9%
Naver Blog 44.5%
X 23%
LinkedIn 6.2%
Tistory 2.7%
Telegram 2.6%
KakaoStory 2.4%
TikTok 2.2%
Band 1.2%
Pinterest 0.7%
Threads 0.6%
Weibo 0.5%
Discord 0.5%
Linktree 0.3%

🚀 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.

1. Instagram ^(-1)
3. Naver Blog ^(-25)
6. Tistory ^(-49)
7. Telegram ^(-1)
8. KakaoStory ^(-52)
10. Band ^(-42)
12. Threads ^(-6)
13. Weibo ^(-16)
15. Linktree ^(-11)
17. Behance ^(-7)

✨ Best Social Media Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 43 social media platforms used on sites from Korea, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Instagram Menlo Park, California, United States A photo and video sharing social media platform owned by Meta Platforms. Free	69.3%
2	Facebook Menlo Park, California, United States A social media platform owned by Meta. Free	54.9%
3	Naver Blog Seongnam, Korea A free blogging platform from the Korean company Naver. Free	44.5%
4	X Bastrop, Texas, United States A social media platform that allows users to post short messages, images, and videos. Free$3+/month	23%
5	LinkedIn Mountain View, California, United States A business and employment-focused social media platform that enables professionals to network, search for jobs, share content, and engage with companies. Free$29.99+/month	6.2%
6	Tistory Jeju-si, Jeju-do, Korea A Korean blog publishing platform and social networking app. Free	2.7%
7	Telegram Dubai, United Arab Emirates A cloud-based messaging app for mobile and desktop platforms focused on security, speed, and privacy. Free$$$	2.6%
8	KakaoStory Jeju-si, Jeju-do, Korea A South Korean mobile-based social networking platform that lets users share photos, short videos, status updates, and daily moments with friends through a personal feed. Free	2.4%
9	TikTok Haidian, Beijing, China A Chinese social media platform focused on short-form videos. Free	2.2%
10	Band Seongnam, Korea A Korean social media community platform created by the Naver Corporation.	1.2%
11	Pinterest San Francisco, California, United States A visual discovery and social media platform for sharing and organizing images and videos using Pins, which are visual bookmarks linked to external content and grouped into themed boards. Free	0.7%
12	Threads Menlo Park, California, United States A microblogging and social media platform from Meta designed for sharing text updates and participating in public conversations. Free	0.6%
13	Weibo Beijing, China A Chinese microblogging website. Free	0.5%
14	Discord San Francisco, California, United States An instant messaging and VoIP social platform that allows users to communicate via text chat, voice, and video. Free$2.99+	0.5%
15	Linktree Melbourne, Victoria, Australia A freemium social media landing page service that lets users create a single customizable page of links to all their social profiles and websites from one shareable URL. Free$5+/month	0.3%
16	Flickr Mountain View, California, United States A photo-sharing social network and image hosting service with free storage for up to 1,000 photos. Free$11/month	0.3%
17	Behance San Jose, California, United States A platform for creative professionals around the world to showcase their own work and to discover the creative work of others. Free$9.99+/month	0.3%
18	Line Tokyo, Japan A Japanese instant messaging and social networking app often described as a super-app because it integrates services such as a digital wallet, news feed, digital comics, media streaming, and shopping. Free	0.3%
19	WhatsApp Menlo Park, California, United States An instant messaging and Voice over IP service owned by Meta. Free	0.2%
20	Tumblr San Francisco, California, United States A blogging and social media platform currently owned by Automattic. Free$6.99/month	0.2%
21	Medium San Francisco, California, United States An online publishing platform that allows writers to share articles, stories, and ideas with a built-in audience and content discovery system. $5+/month	0.2%
22	Reddit San Francisco, California, United States A social news aggregation, content rating, and forum social network where content is promoted by members ("redditors") through voting. Free$5.99/month	0.2%
23	SoundCloud Berlin, Germany An online music streaming and distribution platform that allows musicians upload, share, and monetize audio tracks, while listeners discover and engage with content. Free$4.99+/month	0.2%
24	Steam Bellevue, Washington, United States A video game digital distribution service and storefront developed by Valve Corporation. $100	0.1%
25	WeChat Shenzhen, China A Chinese instant messaging, social media, and mobile payment app that has evolved into a super-app combining communication, commerce, and everyday services. Free	0.07%

👉 See Also

🌎 Social Media 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 87 social media platforms across the web.
Of these, 43 were detected on websites from Korea.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.