Best dating apps in South Korea

Which apps have a South Korea App Store listing

An iTunes lookup of the South Korea App Store on November 5, 2026 returned listings for twenty-one reviewed apps. Tinder, Bumble, Feeld, Grindr and HER are among them, along with the smaller Taimi, 3Fun, Hily and The League. Eleven came back empty: Hinge, OkCupid, Plenty of Fish, Coffee Meets Bagel, Match, eharmony, Zoosk, Fling, OurTime, Hornet and Doublelist.

The lookup reads the iPhone App Store only. Google Play and web availability by country cannot be checked this way, so a service missing above may still serve South Korea through Android or a browser. AdultFriendFinder, BeNaughty and Sniffies are web-first and have no iPhone app to look up, which leaves their South Korea status open; web-first dating sites are covered on their own page.

Best dating apps in South Korea on English-language results

The first Google South Korea results page for "best dating apps in south korea" holds eight results, four of them ranking lists, and none sits on a Korean domain. Tinder is named five times and Bumble twice. No other app covered here appears. Two of the results are dated 2025 or 2026, one is an App Store page and one is a forum page.

Only English was searched; local-language queries were not run, so Korean-language lists are not in this count. Rankings without a country filter are on overall dating app rankings, city pages are under city-by-city dating app pages, and the other markets are listed in country pages.

Fines on dating and matchmaking services in South Korea

Three enforcement actions are on record for South Korea. None of them concerns an age check, and no Korean statute or regulation written for dating apps is on record here.

South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission fined Techlabs about KRW 220 million (about 165,712 US dollars) over the dating app Amanda, the Korea Times reported on September 26, 2024. The article says Techlabs runs three dating apps in Korea and Taiwan and allegedly created 276 fake accounts using members' photos without their knowledge, matching them automatically with real users.

The Korea Fair Trade Commission then sanctioned Techlabs under the Electronic Commerce Act, with a fine of KRW 52 million over deceptive practices on Amanda and Neorang Narang. The date is May 29, 2025, and the source is Digital Policy Alert, a tracker that cites the commission as its official source but hides the link behind a sign-in, so this item rests on a secondary source. The tracker's summary mentions fake female accounts; it was truncated, and no further detail is stated here.

On April 23, 2026, Reuters via The Star reported that the Personal Information Protection Commission fined the matchmaking service Duo KRW 1.21 billion (about 815,400 US dollars) and ordered it to improve data handling and disclose the incident. A January 2025 hack had exposed the data of more than 420,000 current and former members. The regulator also cited improper collection and storage of citizen ID numbers and passwords, and failure to delete data of nearly 300,000 members held for over five years. Reuters describes Duo as a "matchmaking agency" and does not call it a dating app, so whether the case applies to dating apps is not stated. How apps handle member data in general is covered under our privacy guide.

Prices on the South Korea App Store

No South Korea App Store price row is on record for any reviewed app, so this page gives no KRW subscription price. The only KRW amounts here are the fines above. Price pages for each app give the other countries, each with its own store and currency. Google Play and web prices are not covered.

Local apps on the South Korea App Store

Two of the twelve apps in the South Korea local list are marked local: "브릿지 - 마음을 이어주는 다리, 소개팅" (Bridge), with 50,125 ratings on its South Korea listing, and "글램 : 탈퇴하세요, 함께 - 소개팅 데이트 만남" (GLAM), with 24,165. The other ten are marked international. Bumpy - International Dating has the most ratings among them at 1,097, followed by Instinct: Casual Dating App at 116 and Flava: Casual Dating & Chat at 45; the remaining seven show no count. A rating count is the number of ratings on one listing, not a number of users.

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