Bo-eun leads the digital content team. She has covered foreign affairs, North Korea, tech, economy and gender issues at The Korea Times. She did a short stint at the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, where she obtained a new perspective on news production and life. Small sources of joy for her are lounging in the sun, having a good latte and swimming.
What do Koreans google most?
Captured from Google page
By Kim Bo-eun
Guess what the three most-Googled words are in Korea.
To the disappointment of some, they don’t include hot actresses’ names or fancy goods. Two of them are portals.
Naver is No. 1 and Daum No. 3, according to the Google Trend website, Thursday.
Data also showed that people turn to Google for free downloads and porn.
Illegal file-sharing and downloading site Torrent was second, while the largest domestic porn site, minkeynet, was fourth.
In every 100 Naver searches, minkeynet was searched 15 times.
The other most-searched words in 2014 were weather, online retailers Auction and Gmarket, secondhand automobile shopping mall Bobaedream, the animated film “Frozen,” social commerce site Coupang, part-time job portal Alba Heaven, online retailer 11st, community portal for discounted smartphones ppomppu and the largest domestic video game community, Ruliweb.
Google excludes keywords related to sex on its search rankings.
The sunken ferry Sewol, former figure skater Kim Yuna, the blockbuster “Snowpiercer,” MBC’s reality show “Infinite Challenge” and the iPhone 6 were also popular searches.
“Frozen,” the adventure game “Minecraft,” Auction, Adidas, SK’s used car shopping mall Encar and Domino’s Pizza topped the list for children, games, portal sites, brands, automobiles and restaurants.