ChatGPT Monthly App Users in South Korea Top 18 Million for First Time
Summary
- ChatGPT’s monthly mobile app user count in South Korea rose 43.8% to 18.76 million.
- ChatGPT’s total usage time increased 113.9% to 50.98 million hours, while average monthly usage time per user also climbed to 163 minutes.
- Nine out of 10 AI app users tracked by Mobile Index used ChatGPT, while Claude users increased roughly 15-fold from a year earlier.
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ChatGPT’s monthly mobile app users in South Korea topped 18 million for the first time. Total usage time and average time spent per user also rose sharply.
Mobile Index, a big-data analytics platform, said on November 8 that ChatGPT’s monthly active users in South Korea, based on mobile app usage, reached 18.76 million last month, up 43.8% from a year earlier. Total usage time climbed 113.9% to 50.98 million hours. Average monthly time spent per user rose to 163 minutes from 110 minutes over the same period. Nine out of 10 users of AI apps tracked by Mobile Index used ChatGPT.
Anthropic’s Claude, the No. 2 app, is also growing quickly. It had about 2.1 million users last month, roughly 15 times more than a year earlier. By contrast, users of the No. 3 and No. 4 apps, A.Dot and Perplexity, fell 42.5% and 30.9%, respectively.
Lee Young-ae, Hankyung.com reporter, 0ae@hankyung.com
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