23 Facts About Naver

Naver is a South Korean online platform operated by the Naver Corporation.

Naver was created in June 1999 as the first South Korean portal website with a self-developed search engine.

From 2005 to 2007, Naver expanded its multimedia search services, including music and video search as well as mobile search.

In 2019, Naver reorganized its mobile version of the main screen, excluding search windows and some menus.

Naver introduced new restrictions on comments to protect celebrities from malicious comments by anonymous online audiences in March, 2020.

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Naver replaced the comment box with facial emojis after criticisms of mental health implications for celebrities.

Junior Naver, known as Juniver, is a portal website for children considered similar to Yahooligans.

Junior Naver uses a panel of experts and educators to filter out harmful content in order to ensure a safe internet environment for children.

Ever since its competitors Daum Kids and Yahoo Kids have closed down, Junior Naver is the only children's portal site operating in Korea.

Naver Webtoon, later simply WEBTOON, is a webcomic platform where users have free access to a variety of webtoons created by professional artists.

Naver has incorporated a 'Challenge' section which allows amateurs to post and promote their own works.

Naver Cafe is a service that allows Naver users to create their own internet communities.

Naver Blog started with the name 'paper' in June 2003, and evolved to 'blog' in October 2003.

Two weeks from May 1,2021, Naver held an event to pay up to 16,000 won to people who posted on Naver blog every day.

Naver announced on May 13,2021, that it would show profile pictures as well if it posts comments on Naver news articles.

Naver expected that it would be easier to recognize users and solve the problem of malicious comments by implementing such services.

Naver NOW is a video streaming and share platform which mainly provides web dramas distributed by Naver.

In May 2019, Naver started supporting oversea payment in Japan via Line Pay, allowing users to make payments in stores in Japan without exchanging currencies.

Naver helps with unauthorized publishing in order to attract users to its Knowledge iN service.

Naver Mail is an e-mail service that anyone who is a user of Naver can use.

Naver had been criticized because they abused Real-time Search Terms to create public opinion.

Therefore, Naver abolished Real-time Search Terms on 25 February 2021.

Person-related Search Terms of Naver had been criticized because of the tendency to include defamatory searches.