๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ทWorst News Apps in South Korea

The most complained-about news apps in South Korea on App Store and Google Play, ranked by total negative reviews (1-2 stars) from real users. Updated weekly.

#AppRatingNegative Reviews
1๋‹ค์Œ - Daum
๋‹ค์Œ - DaumAXZ Corp.
2.7419
2๋ธ”๋ผ์ธ๋“œ Blind
๋ธ”๋ผ์ธ๋“œ BlindTeamblind inc
4.4363
3X
XX Corp.
4.3346
4CNN: Live & Breaking News
CNN: Live & Breaking NewsCNN
4.7327
5ํŒŸ ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ๋ผ๋””์˜ค ์Œ์•… - Castbox
ํŒŸ ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ๋ผ๋””์˜ค ์Œ์•… - CastboxCastbox.FM - Radio & Podcast & AudioBooks
4.8263
6X
XX Corp.
3.6238
7PressReader
PressReaderPressReader Inc.
4.6237
8ํ•œ๊ฒจ๋ ˆ
ํ•œ๊ฒจ๋ ˆํ•œ๊ฒจ๋ ˆ์‹ ๋ฌธ
2.4211
9Bloomberg: Finance Market News
Bloomberg: Finance Market NewsBloomberg LP CM
4.6211
10The Economist - News, Podcasts
The Economist - News, PodcastsThe Economist Newspaper
4.9205
11Google ๋‰ด์Šค โ€“ ์ผ์ผ ํ—ค๋“œ๋ผ์ธ
Google ๋‰ด์Šค โ€“ ์ผ์ผ ํ—ค๋“œ๋ผ์ธGoogle LLC
3.9193
12๋งค์ผ๊ฒฝ์ œ
๋งค์ผ๊ฒฝ์ œ๋งค์ผ๊ฒฝ์ œ์‹ ๋ฌธ
3.5181
13์Šค๋งˆํŠธ ์ง€์—ญ๋‰ด์Šค
์Šค๋งˆํŠธ ์ง€์—ญ๋‰ด์ŠคEASE Group
4.1151
14๋ชจ๋ฐ”์ผํ•œ๊ฒฝ
๋ชจ๋ฐ”์ผํ•œ๊ฒฝThe Korea Economic Daily
2.6146
15๊ฒฝํ–ฅ์‹ ๋ฌธ - The Kyunghyang Shinmun
๊ฒฝํ–ฅ์‹ ๋ฌธ - The Kyunghyang ShinmunThe Kyunghyang Daily News
3.3138
16๋‰ด๋‹‰ - ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์‰ฌ์šด ๋‰ด์Šค ๋ธŒ๋ฆฌํ•‘
๋‰ด๋‹‰ - ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์‰ฌ์šด ๋‰ด์Šค ๋ธŒ๋ฆฌํ•‘๋‰ด๋‹‰
4.1126
17์ง€์—ญ ๋‚ ์”จ ๋‰ด์Šค - ๋ ˆ์ด๋”
์ง€์—ญ ๋‚ ์”จ ๋‰ด์Šค - ๋ ˆ์ด๋”EASE Group
4.3122
18ํŒŸ๋นต
ํŒŸ๋นต(์ฃผ)ํŒŸ๋นต
3.8108
19์ค‘์•™์ผ๋ณด
์ค‘์•™์ผ๋ณดJoongang Ilbo
4.597
20ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ฒฝ์ œ The Korea Economic Daily
ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ฒฝ์ œ The Korea Economic DailyThe Korea Economic Daily
3.793
21Zip๋‰ด์Šค: ์†๋ณด & ์ตœ์‹  ์ •๋ณด
Zip๋‰ด์Šค: ์†๋ณด & ์ตœ์‹  ์ •๋ณดEASE Group
4.189
22์—ฐํ•ฉ๋‰ด์Šค
์—ฐํ•ฉ๋‰ด์Šค์—ฐํ•ฉ๋‰ด์Šค
3.482
23ํ˜„๋Œ€์นด๋“œ DIVE
ํ˜„๋Œ€์นด๋“œ DIVEHyundaiCard Co., Ltd.
4.270
24Substack
SubstackSubstack Inc.
4.867
25Reddit
RedditREDDIT, INC.
4.864
26์ฝ”์ธ๋‹ˆ์Šค -  ๋น ๋ฅด๊ณ  ์ •ํ™•ํ•œ ์ฝ”์ธ ํˆฌ์ž ๋‰ด์Šค, ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ
์ฝ”์ธ๋‹ˆ์Šค - ๋น ๋ฅด๊ณ  ์ •ํ™•ํ•œ ์ฝ”์ธ ํˆฌ์ž ๋‰ด์Šค, ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐPointex LLC
3.364
27๊ธˆ์ผ ๋‰ด์Šค
๊ธˆ์ผ ๋‰ด์ŠคApps Skyline
4.454
28The White House
The White HouseExecutive Office of the President
5.047
29YTN
YTN(์ฃผ)YTN
3.639
30๋กฑ๋ธ”๋ž™ LongBlack
๋กฑ๋ธ”๋ž™ LongBlacktimenco
3.936
31์กฐ์„ ์ผ๋ณด
์กฐ์„ ์ผ๋ณดChosunilbo
4.234
32tbn
tbnKorea Road Traffic Authority
2.924
33์—ฐํ•ฉ๋‰ด์Šค
์—ฐํ•ฉ๋‰ด์Šค์—ฐํ•ฉ๋‰ด์Šค
4.420
34MBC ๋‰ด์Šค
MBC ๋‰ด์ŠคMBC (๋ฌธํ™”๋ฐฉ์†ก)
4.319
35KBS ๋‰ด์Šค
KBS ๋‰ด์ŠคKBS NEWS
3.917
36๋‰ด์Šค๋ณด์ด - ๋งค์ผ ๋ถ„์•ผ๋ณ„ TOP 10 ๋‰ด์Šค ๋ณด๊ธฐ
๋‰ด์Šค๋ณด์ด - ๋งค์ผ ๋ถ„์•ผ๋ณ„ TOP 10 ๋‰ด์Šค ๋ณด๊ธฐCurvedroad
4.815
37์š”์•ฝ ๋‰ด์Šค: ์†Œ์…œ & ๋‚ ์”จ
์š”์•ฝ ๋‰ด์Šค: ์†Œ์…œ & ๋‚ ์”จBuild4world
4.212
38ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ฒฝ์ œ - ํ•œ๊ฒฝ ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋ฏธ์—„9
ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ฒฝ์ œ - ํ•œ๊ฒฝ ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋ฏธ์—„9ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ฒฝ์ œ์‹ ๋ฌธ์‚ฌ
4.412
39์ค‘์•™์ผ๋ณด
์ค‘์•™์ผ๋ณด์ค‘์•™์ผ๋ณด(์ฃผ)
4.112
40PressReader: ๋‰ด์Šค ๋ฐ ์žก์ง€
PressReader: ๋‰ด์Šค ๋ฐ ์žก์ง€PressReader Inc
4.810
41MBN ๋งค์ผ๋ฐฉ์†ก
MBN ๋งค์ผ๋ฐฉ์†ก๋งค์ผ๊ฒฝ์ œ์‹ ๋ฌธ
4.59
42NHK WORLD-JAPAN
NHK WORLD-JAPANNHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)
3.39
43๋งค์ผ๊ฒฝ์ œ Mobile
๋งค์ผ๊ฒฝ์ œ Mobile๋งค์ผ๊ฒฝ์ œ์‹ ๋ฌธ
3.57
44ํ˜„๋Œ€์นด๋“œ DIVE
ํ˜„๋Œ€์นด๋“œ DIVEHyundai Card
4.24
45๋ชจ๋ฐ”์ผํ•œ๊ฒฝ
๋ชจ๋ฐ”์ผํ•œ๊ฒฝํ•œ๊ตญ๊ฒฝ์ œ์‹ ๋ฌธ์‚ฌ
3.14
46์†๋ณด ์ƒ์ค‘๊ณ„
์†๋ณด ์ƒ์ค‘๊ณ„Aymannn.net
4.02
47ํŒจ์…˜ & ์Šคํƒ€์ผ
ํŒจ์…˜ & ์Šคํƒ€์ผFashion & Style Company Inc.
4.02
48๊ฐ€ํ†จ๋ฆญ
๊ฐ€ํ†จ๋ฆญGoodnews
4.62
49๋ชจ์•„์ง„(Moazine)
๋ชจ์•„์ง„(Moazine)PlantyM
3.81
50์—ฐํ•ฉ๋‰ด์Šค TV
์—ฐํ•ฉ๋‰ด์Šค TVYONHAPNEWS TV
4.11

Why News Apps Fail in South Korea

News apps that earn the most complaints in South Korea usually share the same failure patterns: missing local payment methods, broken integrations with country-specific services, slow servers, missing language support, or feature parity gaps with the global version. Reviews concentrate around the moment a news feature works in the US or UK but breaks in South Korea.

This page ranks news apps in South Korea by total number of negative reviews (1-2 stars). Whether you are researching competitors before launching a news app in South Korea, benchmarking your own app against local pain points, or just curious which news apps users in South Korea complain about most: this data shows you what is actually happening on the ground, not what marketing pages claim.