Naver is a major search portal from which country?

Naver is a major search portal from South Korea.

Naver was founded on June 2, 1999, and is headquartered in Seongnam, South Korea. Its name combines “navigate” with the suffix “-er,” suggesting someone who navigates the vast amount of information on the internet. The company developed one of Korea’s earliest homegrown search engines and became a central gateway to Korean-language web content.

Naver grew beyond ordinary web search into a broad portal offering email, news, maps, shopping, blogs, cafés, dictionaries, and video. Its Knowledge iN question-and-answer service, launched in 2002, helped make user-generated content a major part of the Korean web. Naver also launched its webtoon service in 2004 and later expanded into mobile services, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing.

A common mix-up is treating Naver as Japanese or Chinese because Japan, China, and South Korea all have major regional search platforms. Naver is specifically South Korean; Japan’s best-known portal is Yahoo! Japan, while Baidu is strongly associated with China.