NAVER Corporation

NAVER Corporation is a technology company that runs South Korea's widely used internet search portal. Its shares trade on the Korea Exchange (KOSPI) under the code 035420.

The company's core income comes from advertising sold through search results and portal content. On the commerce side, it offers marketplace services that let small businesses open online stores, along with a membership program. Its fintech arm provides online and in-store payment services through Naver Pay. On the content side, the digital comics platform webtoon is to the fore; this business is run through a company that has been separately listed in the US. In the cloud unit, organizations are offered cloud infrastructure and AI services based on HyperCLOVA X, the Korean-focused large language model developed by the company.

Those following NAVER track the advertising market in Korea, competition with domestic and foreign e-commerce platforms, the cost of AI investment and its contribution to income, structural changes in its fintech affiliates and platform regulation. The NAVER page on Lzzo.com shows the price in Seoul on a US dollar basis; users can look at the Turkish lira, euro or pound sterling equivalent if they wish. A historical chart, technical indicators, the data source and the time of the last update are also provided on the page.