For Better or Worse, All Roads Lead to Namuwiki in South Korea, Not Wikipedia

“All roads lead to Namuwiki,” a popular saying goes. Type any search term into Google Korea. Chances are, you’ll be taken to Namuwiki, not Wikipedia. Namuwiki is South Korea’s indigenous open-source encyclopedia, which started out as a half-baked collection of pages deep in the bowels of Korean cyberspace. Today it is far more popular than Wikipedia Korea, which generally is far less substantive. Though its name borrows the distinctive “wiki” prefix, Namuwiki does not aim to abide by the same f