[5] The Korean Wikipedia won the Information Trust Award in the general Internet culture branch in 2005.

[1] Jimmy Wales stated that, in other countries, models like Wikipedia were first introduced during the early stages of the internet, leading to very enthusiastic responses.

In contrast, in South Korea, other collective collaboration services such as Naver's Jisik-in (지식인), a Quora style ask-and-answer website, were already available, leading to much more lackluster responses.

Hangugeo is the name for the Korean language in South Korea, and baekgwa is a clipped form of 백과사전 baekgwasajeon "encyclopedia".

The web portal Empas integrated the Korean Wikipedia database in its search tool since 11 August 2005.

[12] The feature to search Korean Wikipedia using a mobile phone with a wireless Internet connection through the web portal Nate was available to the subscribers of SK Telecom from 6 July 2007.

[16][17] Human rights groups have sent copies of the Korean Wikipedia to North Korea on USB sticks by balloon.