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In 1999, NAVER launched South Korea's first search engine, and quickly established itself as the nation's leading search portal. Earlier services such as NAVER Blog, NAVER Cafe and NAVER Post built on NAVER’s strengths as a search engine. NAVER later introduced a diverse menu of themed, curated categories of content optimized for mobile devices, including categories such as: News, Sports, Entertainment, Shopping, and Video, with 28 in total. NAVER Dictionary is offered in 33 languages, including Korean, English, Chinese, Japanese, German, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Swahili. And finally, the NAVER Search-powered NAVER Encyclopedia pairs reliable search results with a comprehensive database of knowledge.

LINE is one of the fastest growing mobile messenger apps in the world, poised to become a global center of communication—bringing people and businesses closer together. LINE also brings offline conveniences online, with its games, music, payment, delivery and call services. LINE users have access to free messaging, voice call, and video chat services anytime and anywhere. LINE is available for smart phones and laptops, for both iOS and Android, Windows and Mac operating systems.

Clova is an AI platform that incorporates speech, image recognition and artificial neural network translation into one interactive engine. Clova will be built into various NAVER and LINE products, NAVER's smart speaker WAVE, Friends, and other third-party devices and services.

Papago is an automated interpretation application that is effective when traveling overseas and meeting foreigners. It was developed with NAVER's own technology, which integrates speech recognition, speech synthesis, machine translation, and character recognition. The underlying core NMT (Neural Machine Translation) technology has been uniquely applied to translate sentences as a whole instead of splitting into phrases in order to provide more accurate and contextualized translation services.

Whale is a web browser that was launched by NAVER after five years of development with the aim of 'Easy browser for anyone'. Based on a variety of high technologies and attractive designs, it offers a new experience beyond traditional ordinary web surfing. In particular, 'Omni-tasking' that allows you to work from one window at a time without having to open multiple windows and has unique and convenient features such as Quick search, Space and Sidebar. We also have a wide range of extension apps and great design background themes available in our Whale store.

Navigate your way with NAVER Maps, regardless of whether you’re walking or cycling, driving or taking public transportation. A good map service should change to reflect the changing geographies of a space, and NAVER Maps aims to bring its users the most relevant and up-to-date info for navigating their spaces, through diverse mashups with other space- and location-based services.

V LIVE allows celebrities to broadcast themselves live, engaging with fans in new ways. Viewers can see what they see, in real time, from anywhere in the world. V LIVE integrates K-Pop, beauty, fashion, musicals and TV drama content, and with features like “Channel Guide,” “V LIVE+”, “Multicam”, “V STORE,” “V Fansubs,” and various video features, V LIVE provides a unique platform for both celebrities and their fans worldwide.

Since its launch in 2004, NAVER Webtoon has produced a number of best-selling authors, primarily through its unique competition-based system for promoting webtoons. Over the years, NAVER Webtoon has expanded its mobile comics platform overseas to the U.S., China, Taiwan, Thailand, and Indonesia, going by LINE Webtoon globally. LINE Webtoon attracted a following of over 18 million monthly active users just two years after its initial launch. Buoyed by a loyal user base, NAVER Webtoon is also expanding its intellectual property business into publishing, movies and games.

SNOW is a photo and video messenger for mobile with camera, photo and video editing and chat rolled into one. Users can bedazzle their selfies with SNOW’s face-recognition-based stickers or drop visual pins with the location-based stickers, then share it as a Story. Fun and easy to use, SNOW currently has more than 130 downloads worldwide and continues to grow.

A group-oriented social network service, BAND has been downloaded 70 million times in 226 countries around the world. BAND provides families, couples, and friend groups, as well as study and work groups, with a variety of features that make communication easy, on mobile and desktop. BAND has also grown into a service for interest-based communities, with services for users who want to meet fellow users common interests, and also has a feed feature that incorporates an algorithm based on the user’s activities and usage patterns.

Explore a new world of sound and a diversity of audio content, created with NAVER’s audio-editing tools. AudioClip aspires to provide users with a tool and a platform for creating, experience and sharing audio content more easily. When life is this busy, it’s hard to find the time for a quiet walk or meditative moment. But you might have the time to give AudioClip a listen—in the car during your commute, in the kitchen while preparing dinner, or as you fall asleep.