NAVER Corp. is South Korea’s largest web search engine, as well as a global ICT brand that provides services including LINE messenger, currently with over 200 million users from around the world, the SNOW video app, and the digital comics platform NAVER WEBTOON, the result of which NAVER stores and manages a wide array of user data. Since the advent of the internet, advances in telecommunication and smartphone technology, and other new technological developments in the IT industry have triggered explosive levels of data production and direct consumption, all of which has led to an increase in NAVER’s IT infrastructure as well.
Against this backdrop, NAVER opened a 120,000-unit data center along the outskirts of Gubong Mountain in Chuncheon on June 2013. The construction of this data center was to effectively manage NAVER’s ever-expanding IT infrastructure and guarantee safe user data storage, fueled by the creative spirit of our ancestors in creating the Korean language and building on lessons that drive home the value of data records.
