Korea.net

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Korea.net
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Type of site
 e-Government
Available inArabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish and Vietnamese
URL korea.net
CommercialNo
Current statusOnline

Korea.net or KOREA.net is an official web portal of the South Korean government. [1]

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Description

The predecessor to the service was called "Korea Window" (코리아윈도우), which was established in 1995. [2] [3] Korea.net was established in September 1999. [3]

Korea.net is operated by the Korean Culture and Information Service. [4] [5] As of 2025, it is available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Indonesian and Vietnamese. [6] [2] The website's information is sourced from honorary journalists, eight of whom won an award at the K Wave Festival 2023. [6] It had 539 honorary reporters from 73 countries in April 2019. [3] In 2020, it had 2,154 reporters from 104 countries, its largest ever cohort. [7] The website was redesigned in 2019. [3] [2] It had 18.25 million visitors in 2013 and 22.78 million in 2018. [3]

The website is meant to share information about Korea internationally, in other languages. [3] [7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "E-resources: Online Resources - General", Research Guide: Korean Studies, US: Duke University Libraries, archived from the original on 23 July 2019, retrieved 23 July 2019
  2. 1 2 3 Yoon, Min-sik (2019-04-04). "Government revamps Korea promotional website". The Korea Herald . Retrieved 2024-07-27.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 이, 종화 (2019-04-03). "코리아넷, 디자인 개선·콘텐츠 확대해 해외 독자 만난다". Field News (in Korean). Retrieved 2024-07-27.
  4. ↑ "South Korea in the Yahoo! Directory". Yahoo!. Archived from the original on 23 November 2014. Retrieved 22 November 2012.
  5. ↑ Zwetsloot, Jacco (2018-12-23). "My life at a Korean law firm (part 43)". The Korea Times . Retrieved 2024-07-27.
  6. 1 2 Hwang Joo-young (3 November 2023). "35 foreign individuals to be awarded for promoting Korean culture". The Korea Herald . Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  7. 1 2 Song, Seung-hyun (2020-03-09). "Korea.net's honorary reporters report on coronavirus in Korea". The Korea Herald . Retrieved 2024-07-27.


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