๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ทBest News Apps in South Korea

Top-rated news apps in South Korea on App Store and Google Play, ranked by the lowest complaint rate. Filtered to apps with 1,000+ ratings and โ˜… 4.0+ overall.

Method: Sorted by negative reviews รท total ratings (lower = users complain less). Category: News. Country: ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท South Korea. Updated weekly from live App Store and Google Play data.

#AppRatingComplaint Rate
1CNBC: Stock Market & Business
CNBC: Stock Market & BusinessVersant Media LLC
โ˜… 4.8<0.1%
2CNN: Live & Breaking News
CNN: Live & Breaking NewsCNN Interactive Group, Inc.
โ˜… 4.7<0.1%
3The Wall Street Journal. News
The Wall Street Journal. NewsDow Jones & Company, Inc., publisher of The Wall Street Journal.
โ˜… 4.7<0.1%
4Bloomberg: Business News Daily
Bloomberg: Business News DailyBloomberg Finance LP
โ˜… 4.7<0.1%
5NYTimes: US and Global News
NYTimes: US and Global NewsThe New York Times Company
โ˜… 4.8<0.1%
6ํŒŸ ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ๋ผ๋””์˜ค ์Œ์•… - Castbox
ํŒŸ ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ๋ผ๋””์˜ค ์Œ์•… - CastboxCastbox.FM - Radio & Podcast & AudioBooks
โ˜… 4.8<0.1%
7๊ฐ€ํ†จ๋ฆญ
๊ฐ€ํ†จ๋ฆญGoodnews
โ˜… 4.60.1%
8X
XX Corp.
โ˜… 4.30.1%
9ํ˜„๋Œ€์นด๋“œ DIVE
ํ˜„๋Œ€์นด๋“œ DIVEHyundai Card
โ˜… 4.20.2%
10The Economist - News, Podcasts
The Economist - News, PodcastsThe Economist Newspaper
โ˜… 4.90.3%
11์—ฐํ•ฉ๋‰ด์Šค
์—ฐํ•ฉ๋‰ด์Šค์—ฐํ•ฉ๋‰ด์Šค
โ˜… 4.40.3%
12์Šค๋งˆํŠธ ์ง€์—ญ๋‰ด์Šค
์Šค๋งˆํŠธ ์ง€์—ญ๋‰ด์ŠคEASE Group
โ˜… 4.10.4%
13Zip๋‰ด์Šค: ์†๋ณด & ์ตœ์‹  ์ •๋ณด
Zip๋‰ด์Šค: ์†๋ณด & ์ตœ์‹  ์ •๋ณดEASE Group
โ˜… 4.10.5%
14PressReader
PressReaderPressReader Inc.
โ˜… 4.60.6%
15ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ฒฝ์ œ - ํ•œ๊ฒฝ ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋ฏธ์—„9
ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ฒฝ์ œ - ํ•œ๊ฒฝ ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋ฏธ์—„9ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ฒฝ์ œ์‹ ๋ฌธ์‚ฌ
โ˜… 4.40.6%
16MBC ๋‰ด์Šค
MBC ๋‰ด์ŠคMBC (๋ฌธํ™”๋ฐฉ์†ก)
โ˜… 4.30.6%
17์ค‘์•™์ผ๋ณด
์ค‘์•™์ผ๋ณด์ค‘์•™์ผ๋ณด(์ฃผ)
โ˜… 4.10.7%
18MBN ๋งค์ผ๋ฐฉ์†ก
MBN ๋งค์ผ๋ฐฉ์†ก๋งค์ผ๊ฒฝ์ œ์‹ ๋ฌธ
โ˜… 4.50.8%
19Reddit
RedditREDDIT, INC.
โ˜… 4.80.8%
20๋ธ”๋ผ์ธ๋“œ Blind
๋ธ”๋ผ์ธ๋“œ BlindTeamblind inc
โ˜… 4.40.9%
21PressReader: ๋‰ด์Šค ๋ฐ ์žก์ง€
PressReader: ๋‰ด์Šค ๋ฐ ์žก์ง€PressReader Inc
โ˜… 4.81.0%
22์ง€์—ญ ๋‚ ์”จ ๋‰ด์Šค - ๋ ˆ์ด๋”
์ง€์—ญ ๋‚ ์”จ ๋‰ด์Šค - ๋ ˆ์ด๋”EASE Group
โ˜… 4.31.0%
23๊ธˆ์ผ ๋‰ด์Šค
๊ธˆ์ผ ๋‰ด์ŠคApps Skyline
โ˜… 4.41.4%
24์ค‘์•™์ผ๋ณด
์ค‘์•™์ผ๋ณดJoongang Ilbo
โ˜… 4.51.8%
25ํ˜„๋Œ€์นด๋“œ DIVE
ํ˜„๋Œ€์นด๋“œ DIVEHyundaiCard Co., Ltd.
โ˜… 4.24.3%

News Apps in South Korea: What to Look For

News apps that perform well in South Korea usually solve a local problem better than the global competition. Local payment methods, language support, regional integrations, and country-specific features drive ratings up faster than feature counts. The news apps on this page have the lowest complaint rate among South Korea users with at least 1,000 ratings, which means real users in South Korea are picking them over alternatives and not complaining loudly afterward.

Why combine category and country? A news app that ranks #1 globally may rank lower in South Korea due to missing local features, or vice versa. Looking only at global rankings hides these market-level differences. This page divides negative reviews by total ratings on a per-country basis for news, so apps with strong global ratings but weak South Korea performance drop down the list, and locally loved apps surface where they belong.