South Korea · Half-yearly · 2012 – 2025

Korea Transparency Reports

The half-yearly transparency reports Naver and Kakao publish under South Korea's network laws — the Telecommunications Business Act and the Protection of Communications Secrets Act — covering government requests for user data: communications user information, communications confirmation data (metadata), communication-restricting measures (interception) and seizure warrants. A tidy-long dataset: each row is one measured value identified by platform × service × half-year × request type × metric. Units mix counts, percentages and averages — never sum non-count units; this page pins a single metric for each view.

Trends

Interactive views of the reported figures. Each chart has a text alternative for screen readers.

Government requests by request type

Requests received per half-year, by legal request type — Naver and Kakao combined.

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Requests received vs. processed

All request types combined: requests received vs. requests processed (complied with in full or in part), per half-year.

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Accounts affected by request type

Accounts covered by processed requests, per half-year and request type.

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Naver vs. Kakao request volumes

Requests received per half-year, by platform.

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Totals by request type

Requests received per legal request type, both platforms and all half-years combined.

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What the reports cover

The number of reported values from each platform. Kakao reports its Daum and Kakao services separately, so it carries more rows. Counts of rows, not summed quantities.

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