Internet conditions in Seoul, South Korea

Measured as the district of Jongro, SeoulLocal time Asia/SeoulMeasured every hour since February 2019Data to 16 Jul 2026
Sites
Grade within South Korea
Ebottom fifth of 227 districts
High confidence · the district’s own measurement
Score
Connectivity score
28/ 100
13th percentile worldwide · 197th of 227 in South Korea
Conditions
Typical week
271ms latency
Jitter 82 ms · steadier than 42% of districts worldwide
Sites
Disruptions, last 12 months
1episode · 8 days
Latest ended 16 Jul 2026
Conditions

Where this is

The district the measurement describes.

District outline, KASPR boundary layer

Conditions

The week, hour by hour

Chance of a rough hour, local time. Darker is rougher.

00061218
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Sun
Steadiest Thu 10:00 (34% chance of a rough hour)Roughest Sun 22:00 (69%)Swing 2.6 points: the hour of the week barely changes the odds here
Score

What makes the score

Five parts, each a percentile among scored districts worldwide (100 = best). The second mark is the same part ranked within South Korea.

Speed
11 · 100
Stability
37 · 100
Evening
59 · 45
Reliability
6 · 0
Trend
51 · 100
worldwide percentilewithin South KoreaWeights 30 / 25 / 20 / 20 / 5
Score

Two years of months

Monthly mean latency and jitter. The connectivity index compares responding addresses with the district’s own norm.

2718427684Jul2025Jul2026
latency, msjitter, msConnectivity index +3.2% against a year earlier
Sites

Disruptions

Falls in responding addresses against the district’s own baseline. The record says when, where and how deep, not why.

9 Jul 2026 – 16 Jul 2026Sustained fall, 8 days, 50% below baselinelatest

Worst hours of a typical week: Sun 22:00, Sun 23:00, Tue 22:00. Chance of a rough hour at the peak: 69%.

Sites

Other cities

Grades within each country. Each links to its own page.

EOsaka266 ms
EShanghai261 ms
BTianjin256 ms
CNagoya267 ms
BBeijing254 ms
BNanjing250 ms
DHangzhou253 ms
ETokyo255 ms

All 100 cities →

What to do with this

Three ways in, one per product.

Check your own locations

Paste your sites or offices and get a grade and a report for each. The first look is free.

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When to connect from Seoul

Pick the people on a call or the audience for a post and see the steadier hours, on the web or in Slack.

Open KASPR Sense →

Monitor Seoul

Alerts the moment the district breaks, the full history, and the data behind this page in the dashboard.

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Questions people ask

Is the internet in Seoul good?
By world standards Seoul sits in the 13th percentile of 15,460 scored districts, with 271 ms typical latency and 82 ms jitter. Within South Korea it ranks 197th of 227, in the bottom fifth.
When is the internet in Seoul worst?
The roughest slot of a typical week is Sun 22:00, when the chance of a rough hour peaks at 69%. The steadiest is Thu 10:00 at 34%. Between them, the hour of the week barely changes the odds here.
Were there internet outages in Seoul recently?
One episode in the last twelve months, 8 days in all. The latest ran from 9 Jul 2026 to 16 Jul 2026, with responding addresses 50% below the district’s baseline.
How is this measured?
KASPR sends round-trip requests to geolocated IPv4 addresses from the outside, every hour since February 2019, and aggregates the answers by district. No apps, no speed tests, the same method everywhere. The figures describe the district a city centre falls in, at one data vintage.

Source: KASPR Datahaus (pulse.kasprdata.com) · Data to 2026-07-16 · the measurement records timing and depth, not cause · How KASPR measures