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🇰🇷South Korea VPN speed by city and region
See quality-checked VPN results by city or region, including the VPN servers actually observed during the selected time window. Use the filters to match the same test location, provider and protocol shown on the heatmap.
South Korea benchmark coverage that is visible without JavaScript
The live tables below can be filtered by source, provider and protocol. This published snapshot stays in the server-rendered HTML so the country page still carries real benchmark context before the live feed updates.
| Provider | Samples | Protocols | Median retention | Published benchmark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ExpressVPN | 60 | 3 | 24.0% | Open provider data |
City / location breakdown
Live metrics update in the browser; published coverage is shown above.
| City / location | Provider | Protocol | Observed endpoint(s) | Samples | Median speed | Retention | Latency | Loss | Last test |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live city-level metrics update after the page opens. Published coverage remains visible above. | |||||||||
At a glance
What stands out in South Korea
These highlights follow the filters above, so you can compare the same slice of data without reading the whole table.
Published coverage is shown above; live highlights update with the selected filters.
Protocol performance in South Korea
P10 shows the slower end of normal results, P50 is the median, and P90 shows the stronger end. Groups need at least three quality-checked samples to appear.
| Provider | Protocol | Median speed | P10 retention | P50 retention | P90 retention | Samples |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live protocol metrics update with the selected filters; published provider snapshots remain visible above. | ||||||
What the data shows
South Korea VPN performance, in plain English
The published snapshot above shows current 30-day coverage. Live analysis updates when the selected filters return enough quality-checked measurements.
Results can change as providers rotate servers and network conditions shift. We keep the wording tied to the measurements on this page rather than making claims that the data cannot support.
How to read these results
We only use measurements that pass Secure-VPN's quality checks and still belong to an active or suspect catalog target. Changing a filter simply narrows the benchmark you see here, so you can compare one source, provider or protocol without losing the wider country context.
City names come from the target metadata when they are available. If a target has no city, we fall back to the detected exit city, then the region, and finally a country-level label. We would rather show a broader location than guess a city that was never recorded.
For observed endpoints, NordVPN may expose a vendor hostname directly. ExpressVPN does not always do that, so we show a validated reverse-DNS hostname when one is available and otherwise show the measured exit IP. A technical target ID is never passed off as a real observed server.