Naver Top Mobile Searches 2017

날씨 - Weather 유튜브 - YouTube 페이스북 - Facebook 로또 - Lotto (sales apparently reached 13-year high) 구굴 - Google 전국날씨 - Nationwide weather 미세먼지 - Fine dust 다음 - Daum 길찾기 - Directions 환율 - Currency exchange rates 오늘의 운세 - Today's fortune/horoscope 그것이알고싶다 - "I Want to Know About That" but for some reason called "The Its Know" or "We Want To Know The Truth" in English. A TV show that looks at politics, society, etc. This show is amazing mainly for the dramatic format and the way nearly any topic starts to feel like a mysterious conspiracy theory. Think Dateline meets Unsolved Mysteries. It airs Saturdays at 11pm which should tell you something right there. Some of their investigations are informative and interesting, especially this year with various political and sex scandals. I'm not sure which precisely triggered this massive search ranking. Any readers, feel free to chime in on this one. 영화 - Movies 오늘날씨 - Today's weather 네이트판 - Nate Pan 이시각 전국날씨 - Current weather 네이트 - Nate 웹툰 - webtoons 지마켓 - G-Market 김주혁 - Kim Joo-hyuk (discussed above)

Naver Top Desktop/PC Searches 2017

유튜브 - YouTube 다음 - Daum 구글 - Google 페이스북 - Facebook 농협인터넷뱅킹 - Nonghyup Internet Banking 환율 - Currency exchange rate 국민은행 - Kookmin Bank 쿠팡 - Coupang (shopping site) 롤인벤 - "League of Legends Inven" (http://lol.inven.co.kr - Koreans are the best at contractions) 우리은행 - Woori Bank 신한은행 - Shinhan Bank 사람인 - Saramin (job search site) 11번가 - 11 Street (shopping site) 아프리카티비 - Afreeca TV (streaming video site, popular with BJs, mukbang, etc) 국민은행인터넷뱅킹 - Kookmin Internet Banking 멜론 - Melon (music streaming site) 옥션 - Auction (shopping site) 유투브 - YouTube 날씨 - Weather 위메프 - We Make Price (shopping site)

This list is just pure raw accurate numbers. The most searched keywords. So you'll notice the overwhelming majority are just basic queries ("weather" or "exchange rates" or "movies") which return Naver onebox results, or else just people trying to get to other sites (especially YouTube, but also, awkwardly, other portals like Google, Daum, or Nate... ouch, but to be fair I'm sure "Naver" makes up a huge portion of Korean Google searches too). Queries related to weather make up the bulk of mobile searching. Not surprising there.Like the list above, this is just raw numbers here. You'll notice most searches are just people trying to get to other sites.You may be thinking, "Why don't Koreans just type the URL? They are so lazy" in which case I would say that, for one, just typing 유튜브 into Naver (which already loaded in your new tab page anyway) is easier and faster than switching the keyboard to English and typing "youtube.com". But secondly, it also has the fringe benefit of reducing phishing, since you're more likely to make a typo or spelling mistake when typing the URL of a site that could lead you to a copycat site whereas searching it, even if you made a quick error, likely the correct legitimate site would be the top result. Hell I still Google "wells fargo" instead of trusting my browser history. Plus, you'll notice that's precisely why YouTube snagged both the #1 and #18 spots here (#18 is a common misspelling).And that rounds out another year. You can also check out the corresponding lists for this year:Or compare with Naver search results from prior years: