This article showcases our top picks for the best South Korean based Internet companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Internet industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top South Korean Internet Startups
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Coupang
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Coupang offers an e-commerce platform that is powered by innovative technology and operations.
Naver
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Naver operates as a search engine and e-commerce platform providing fintech, digital content, and cloud services.
N.THING
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N.THING is a Seoul-based agri-tech company leading innovation in the farm-to-table food value chain by combining IoT technology and data.
Kakao Corp
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Kakao is a mobile lifestyle platform offering services ranging from messaging, news, advertising, gaming, e-commerce, and music.
Spoon Radio
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Spoon operates as a real-time personal audio broadcasting platform.
KT Corp
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KT Corporation is a Korean telecommunications company which provides services to residential and business users across South Korea.
Kakao Mobility
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Kakao Mobility provides online taxi-hailing and parking services.
Pearl Abyss
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Pearl Abyss is a game developer based in Korea currently developing, the Next-Gen MMORPG ‘Black Desert Online’.
MegazoneCloud
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“We Are Digital Architects” – We empower customers with cloud-optimized technology, people and process.
Platfarm Inc. (mojitok)
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Platfarm helps messaging services to monetize or/and increase user engagement with the visual communication solution.
Ecube Labs
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Ecube Labs develops smart waste management solutions and remote monitoring tools.
Dable
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Dable, Inc. is a Leading Content Discovery Platform & Personalized Recommendation Company in Asia-Pacific Region.
Kmong
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Kmong is a Korean online talent market enabling individuals to sell and buy services in design, business, computing, music, and more.
Coinone
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Coinone provides blockchain-related financial services including cryptocurrency exchange, asset management and trading matching engines.
Energy X
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Energy X connects energy market participants from individual households to EPC contractors and investors via its online and mobile platform.
LUXROBO
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LUXROBO develops educational robots, IoT platform, and modular robotics kit.
Blocko
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Blocko offers a blockchain operating system and development platform.
GTA
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GTA is a Telecommunications provider offering wireless,Internet and Digital Television services on Guam.
Toss Lab
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Toss Lab is a SaaS enterprise software company that provides enterprise messaging and collaboration tools.
FEELWAY
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FEELWAY is the 1st largest domestic luxury products market place in korea.
Estmob
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Taking a easy, quick, and unlimited approach to file sharing.
Picky
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Picky is a fast-growing mobile-first community that enables consumers to discover the best beauty, skincare brands, and products.
Crowdworks
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Crowdworks solves the toughest problem in AI today: Delivering training data sets with next-level accuracy, quality assured.
BxB
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BxB is building KRWb, a stable bridge from Korea to anywhere. It’s a globally accessible, 1:1 stable coin backed by the Korean Won.
Wider Planet, Inc.
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The 1st largest local DSP(Demand Side Platform) and DMP(Data Management Platform) in Korea.
VITCON
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VITCON offers products and services that make it easy for anyone to configure IoT.
Bitsensing
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Bitsensing is a radar technology startup focused on developing smart city solutions to improve citizens’ quality of life.
Makestar
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Makestar was born to suggest new communication method between Hallyu star and global fan.
B2Link
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B2Link is an online B2B beauty platform that offers subscription services for branded products.
Scatter Lab
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Scatter Lab is a text-based Korean sentiment analysis service which is available as a smartphone application.
ZeroWeb
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ZeroWeb is a local network mobile platform developed for small to medium business people.
Socialinus
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Socialinus Inc. is a Korean-based independent game development company focused on creating online games for social networks.
StudioBside
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StudioBside is a mobile game developer based in Korea.
SelectStar
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SelectStar is the finest Data Platform for your AI: Mobile Crowd-sourcing based High quality data with diversity guaranteed
Coconut Silo
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Hyundai Motors’ in-house startup Coconut Silo provides a cross border logistics platform that gets customers their orders in 5 minutes.
N3N
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N3N provides IoT visualization software for large enterprises to act on their workflows, processes and very own Internet of Things.
Posture360
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SaaS & Mobile App platform that solves spinal problems through AI devices integrated into ergonomic products to relieve pain.
42Maru
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42Maru builds a question answer system that finds a single, specific, correct answer based on Deep Learning
Trevari
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Trevari is a online book club platform operator .
Seculetter
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SecuLetter is a cutting-edge solution of SecuLetter is able to detect unknown attacks with hybrid approaches,static and dynamic analysis.
Bagel Labs
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Bagel Labs creates a user-friendly and smart tape measuring device.
Tumblbug
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Tumblbug is an online Korean crowdfunding site focused on art and cultural content.
Popcorn5
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Popcorn5, Inc. is a business-to-business software platform.
KardiaChain
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KardiaChain is a blockchain platform for decentralized application.
MEDIHERE
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A telehealth platform connecting patients whose mother tongue is not English with doctors who can speak their mother tongue.
ulalaLAB
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ulalaLAB, South Korean startup company specializing in Industrial IoT, SaaS and Machine Learning technologies.
Marketit
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Marketit is an Influencer Platform where Individuals could utilize their influencing value.
Kong Liao
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Kong Liao is a web-based platform that offers daily quizzes.
Mosiler
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Mosiler is to provide safe and comfortable service to your destination with your vehicle .
Dadam Game
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Dadam Game is a Seoul-based gaming platform that provides its users with online games.
Market Designers
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Market Designers is a matching platform designed to provide effective resource sharing and distribution.
EVERY KIT
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World’s first plug & play IoT software education service.
I-ON Digital Corp
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I-ON Digital Corp is an enterprise software company based in South Korea.
Mobil Factory
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Mobil Factory is a mobile video game developer.
OWLOGUE
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OWLOGUE is a Seoul-based game studio that creates anime games.
Alt – A
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Alt – A is developing a “next-generation connected convex mirror” as a smart traffic safety solution.
Xquare
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Xquare provides a crowdfunding platform and a securitized marketplace focused on renewable energy across the globe.
Carboneyed
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Carbon is the second most important element in the human body.
SPACOSA Corp.
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Location platform based on Tracking service.
Tenfingers
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Tenfingers offer date course curation service.
Brave Company
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Brave Company is an internet publishing company.
CashFi, Inc.
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CashFi is an internet company that specializes in the fields of the internet of things.
RacoonSoft
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RacoonSoft is a group of creative minds whom craving for luxury enjoyment and fun.
Haeyoom Media
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Haeyoom media is a Korean mathematics teaching service provider.
Listly
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Listly is an innovative data extraction tool that strong algorithm instantly converts important data from Web page into a spreadsheet.
Woman’s Talk
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Woman’s Talk, Korea’s is a first online mobile beauty home shopping.
39 degrees C
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39 degrees C is a Mobile app development company.
WayWearable
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WayWearable, a ‘beauty-appliance’ company based in Seoul, has created the first total personal skincare companion that fits in your purse.
FraSen
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Lulleep is a comfortable mask that allows people have power nap, deep relaxation and deep sleep.
NANOO COMPANY Inc.
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Nanoo Company offers an official website, community, and centralized support system for mobile game developers and publishers.
MKI
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MKI is a Korean Corporate Education platform that operates as a knowledge academy.
INNOCEED
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INNOCEED is a game development company based in Seoul, Korea.
Daliworks
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DaliWorks provides stable and scalable Internet cloud services.
WishLink
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WishLink develops mobile shopping services such as Cacao Style, an advertising, brokerage and e-commerce platform for personal shopping.
Webtoon
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LINE Webtoon – A New Way To Enjoy Comics on Mobile.
HappyFactory
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HappyFactory provides mobile and web services for educational institutions and parents to communicate with one another through platforms.
askstory
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AskStory’s mission is to create the most efficient and commercially optimized collective intelligence system.
brideasmart
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Bridea Smart is a mobile game developer, making creative games with high end technology, in Korea.
MBUZZER
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Temperature/Humidity monitoring service that utilizes IoT
Soundl.ly
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Soundl.ly provides IoT manufactures & app developers with the most reliable data-over-audio technology for pairing devices instantly
Playmaroo
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Playmaroo designs and develops video and online games.
RESPACE
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RESPACE is a Korean company providing a shared space platform for people looking for extra spaces.
NOSITH
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Nosith/patplex provides online patent search and marketing platform in patent transaction.
J2C
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J2C provides iris recognition solutions with self-developed iris recognition devices and software.
FNB People
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Korea’s only franchise operation & management app. FNB People is a perfect partner to successfully manage franchise stores.
Ebates
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Ebates is an e-commerce discovery platform offering a smarter way to shop.
Abroadin
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Abroadin provides New Hak that is a service of O2O platform for overseas studying in reasonable price.
LiveRe
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Cizion is the maker of LiveRe, a social commenting solution for blogs and other websites.
Finda
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Finda is an online financial comparison platform across various financial products.
Slowhale
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Slowhale is provides Internet and wireless communication, and various communication services.
8Cups
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Eightcups develops smart cups that motivates the user to keep hydrated.
AfreecaTV
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AfreecaTV is a live streaming social media platform that anyone from anywhere can use to broadcast live.