AI in South Korea — Which AI Do People Prefer? (updated daily)

AI in South Korea — which tools does it prefer?

South Korea’s whole AI diet, ranked and refreshed daily — every tracked tool’s share of the country’s search interest.

55.9%

ChatGPT — the leader

of South Korea’s AI searches

6.8%

Grok — runner-up

rank #2 in South Korea

6.8%

Grok

the pick beyond ChatGPT

tools with signal

of 26 tracked · this week

South Korea’s AI-tool searches go first to ChatGPT — 55.9% of the country’s AI search interest this week, versus 68.0% for ChatGPT worldwide (-12.1pp below the global figure). Grok is second at 6.8%, and beyond ChatGPT the local favourite is Grok (6.8%). 26 of the 26 tracked tools register measurable interest here. share of Google search interest — relative preference, not usage counts.

updated 2026-07-23 · refreshed daily

every tracked tool, ranked by South Korea’s preference

share of Google search interest — relative preference, not usage counts.

all 26 tools in South Korea — baked in daily

#	tool	company	share in South Korea	global
1	ChatGPT	OpenAI	55.9%	68.0%
2	Grok	xAI	6.8%	2.4%
3	Claude	Anthropic	6.6%	4.8%
4	Gemini	Google	6.0%	10.7%
5	DeepSeek	DeepSeek	3.8%	2.4%
6	NotebookLM	Google	3.1%	1.5%
7	Meta AI	Meta	3.0%	1.2%
8	Kimi	Moonshot AI	2.2%	1.6%
9	Qwen	Alibaba	2.1%	1.1%
10	Suno	Suno	1.9%	0.5%
11	Character.AI	Character	1.6%	1.5%
12	ElevenLabs	ElevenLabs	1.0%	0.5%
13	Perplexity	Perplexity	0.7%	0.5%
14	Midjourney	Midjourney	0.7%	0.5%
15	GitHub Copilot	GitHub	0.7%	0.5%
16	Microsoft Copilot	Microsoft	0.6%	0.5%
17	Cursor	Anysphere	0.6%	0.0%
18	Runway	Runway	0.5%	0.0%
19	Replit	Replit	0.4%	0.5%
20	Veo	Google	0.4%	0.5%
21	Janitor AI	JanitorAI	0.3%	0.5%
22	Luma	Luma AI	0.3%	0.0%
23	Leonardo.Ai	Canva	0.2%	0.0%
24	Sora	OpenAI	0.2%	0.0%
25	Mistral	Mistral AI	0.2%	0.0%
26	Poe	Quora	0.1%	0.0%

share of Google search interest — relative preference, not usage counts. 0.0% means the tool rounds to zero here — not that nobody searches for it. tool links open each tool’s stats page.

questions people ask about AI in South Korea

Which AI is most popular in South Korea?

ChatGPT — it takes 55.9% of South Korea's AI-tool search interest this week; Grok is second at 6.8%. Shares measure relative Google search interest — preference, not usage counts.

Which AI does South Korea prefer beyond ChatGPT?

Grok: setting ChatGPT aside, it is South Korea's strongest AI preference at 6.8% of the country's AI-tool searches — rank #2 overall.

How does South Korea compare with the rest of the world?

ChatGPT's share in South Korea is 55.9% versus 68.0% worldwide — 12.1pp below its global figure. The full 26-tool ranking above is rebuilt every day from fresh Google Trends data.