Paran, Yahoo Korea and other Korean portals shared their top ten rankings for the most searched phrases and keywords in 2008. This year saw the financial crisis, celebrity suicides and the Beijing Olympics as some of the more popular searches for Korean Internet users.

More detailed results from each portal are available below:

Daum official blog (Korean)

Google Korea had their results included in the Google Zeitgeist 2008 roundup.

Naver’s search blog (Korean)

Yahoo Korea’s search blog (Korean)

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