South Korea

South Korea's WokeMeter assessment score is 60, placing it in the 92.5th percentile globally and ranking #14 out of 186 countries. This score reflects a moderate to high policy signalling intensity, consistent with its composite score and dimension averages. South Korea exhibits relatively uniform policy signalling across dimensions, with scores around 60 in most categories. The country's legislative and regulatory frameworks, particularly in areas like institutional DEI policies and corporate signalling, align it with global trends of moderate intensity. While the scores are consistent, there are no recent events or significant legislative changes to suggest a deviation from this level of intensity.

The dimension scores provide a clear picture of South Korea's social policy signalling landscape. Education and curriculum signalling and corporate/investor signalling are slightly higher, at 60.11, indicating a marginally more intense focus in these areas. In contrast, other dimensions such as media and platform moderation, speech and expression climate, and protest and activism salience register slightly below at 59.96. This suggests a balanced approach across various policy areas without any single dimension significantly leading or lagging. Overall, the scores reflect a nation with moderately comprehensive policies that align with Western-style progressive signalling but do not extend into the very high intensity range.