Google Play market in South Korea: which categories are open
Categories of Google Play in South Korea ranked by how easy it is to reach the top 100 free chart. Snapshot of Oct 23, 2026.
1.2Minstalls to enter a top 100 (median)
15%of the top: apps from the last 12 months
47,928local apps
4Blocal installs
397new local apps in a year
Categories, easiest first
| Category | Top 100 | New in top |
|---|---|---|
| House & Home | 7.2K | 4% |
| Dating | 8.8K | 7% |
| Video Players & Editors | 17K | 28% |
| Role Playing games | 28K | 26% |
| Casual games | 33K | 58% |
| Board games | 35K | 23% |
| Food & Drink | 36K | 14% |
| Lifestyle | 44K | 13% |
| Sports | 75K | 19% |
| Shopping | 87K | 4% |
| Books & Reference | 107K | 13% |
| Social | 183K | 12% |
| Tools | 225K | 44% |
| Finance | 275K | 3% |
| Sports games | 292K | 17% |
| Auto & Vehicles | 443K | 9% |
| Productivity | 494K | 23% |
| Education | 755K | 18% |
| Business | 891K | 10% |
| Maps & Navigation | 964K | 11% |
| Strategy games | 1.5M | 33% |
| Music games | 1.7M | 12% |
| Puzzle games | 1.8M | 44% |
| Adventure games | 1.9M | 30% |
| Photography | 2.1M | 22% |
| Medical | 2.2M | 6% |
| Communication | 2.3M | 16% |
| Music & Audio | 3.3M | 14% |
| Card games | 6.8M | 23% |
| Educational games | 6.9M | 9% |
| Racing games | 7.7M | 15% |
| Weather | 8.9M | 15% |
| Art & Design | 11M | 38% |
| Travel & Local | 13M | 8% |
| Health & Fitness | 17M | 13% |
| Entertainment | 18M | 30% |
| Simulation games | 36M | 34% |
| Action games | 105M | 24% |
| Personalization | 263M | 29% |
| Arcade games | 525M | 15% |
How to read it
- Top 100 threshold
- Installs of the app at position 100 of a category's free chart: roughly what it takes to get in. For a country, the median across its categories.
- New in top
- Share of the top 200 released in the last 12 months: do newcomers break through?
- Local in top
- Share of the top 200 offered in no more than 3 countries: do local apps win, or global giants?
- Local apps
- Live apps offered only in this country (and at most two others).