| Korea.net | |
| Url: | [//www.korea.net/ korea.net] |
| Commercial: | No |
| Type: | e-Government |
| Language: | Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish and Vietnamese |
| Current Status: | Online |
Korea.net or KOREA.net is the official web portal of the South Korean government.
The predecessor to the service was called "Korea Window", which was established in 1995.[1] Korea.net was established in September 1999.[2]
Korea.net is operated by the Korean Culture and Information Service.[3] [4] As of 2021, it is available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish and Vietnamese. The website's information is sourced from honorary journalists, eight of whom won an award at the K Wave Festival 2023.[5] It had 539 honorary reporters from 73 countries in April 2019. In 2020, it had 2,154 reporters from 104 countries, its largest ever cohort.[6] The website was redesigned in 2019. It had 18.25 million visitors in 2013 and 22.78 million in 2018.
The website is meant to share information about Korea internationally, in other languages.