Facebook users in Korea dip below 10 million

• Published date: 09 March 2023
• Publication title: The Korea Times

The number of Facebook users in Korea fell to a record low last month as a growing number of young people opted to use Instagram and other social media platforms, industry data showed Thursday.

Facebook had a combined 9.79 million Korean monthly active users (MAU) on the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store as of last month, down 2.6 percent from a month ago, according to the data by Mobile Index.

It is the first time that Facebook's MAU in Korea dropped to below the 10-million threshold since Mobile Index started to compile related data in 2020. Its monthly figure has been on a steady decline since August 2021, when it hit 13.41 million.

Insiders said the decline came as the younger generation...