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Who is KOREN?
KOREN (Korea Advanced Research Network) is a national research and education network platform operated in South Korea that provides high-capacity networking infrastructure for research, development, and testbed use by academia, industry, and public institutions.
- High-speed research and education backbone network services for domestic institutions.
- Testbed environment for next-generation networking, 5G/6G, cloud, and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) convergence experiments.
- International research network interconnection and support for global collaborative projects.
- Support for application-level trials in areas such as Internet of Things (IoT), smart city, media, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) over the KOREN infrastructure.
- Operation, management, and technical support services for participating organizations using the KOREN network.
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More About KOREN
KOREN (Korea Advanced Research Network) operates as a dedicated research and education network in South Korea, providing a backbone environment for experiments and service trials that are separate from commercial telecommunications networks used for general traffic.
The platform targets universities, research institutes, government agencies, and enterprises that require a controlled environment for testing emerging information and communication technologies before deployment into production settings.
The KOREN infrastructure typically uses high-capacity optical backbone links and supports IP-based networking (networking infrastructure), including IPv4 and IPv6 routing, MPLS-based services, and various Virtual Private Network (VPN) configurations that allow multi-tenant research projects to coexist on shared physical links.
On top of this backbone, KOREN provides a testbed for technologies such as Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) (network architecture and virtualization), enabling researchers and enterprises to prototype new network control planes, Traffic Engineering (TE) approaches, and virtualized network services.
KOREN is also used for experimentation with mobile and wireless communication technologies, including 5G and preparatory work for 6G research (mobile and wireless Research and Development (R&D) testbed), as well as integrated trials that combine wireless access networks with optical and IP/MPLS cores.
The organization supports application-focused domains such as IoT (IoT platforms), smart city services, high-definition and ultra-high-definition media distribution, and AI workloads that require predictable bandwidth, low latency, or special routing policies across multiple sites.
Many activities on KOREN involve collaboration with international research and education networks (REN interconnection), using standard Internet protocols and interconnect architectures, to support cross-border experiments and data sharing in areas such as scientific computing, large-scale data transfer, and collaborative platforms for joint R&D projects.
From an enterprise and institutional perspective, KOREN can be categorized as a specialized networking infrastructure and testbed provider (research and education network services), rather than a mass-market telecom carrier, and is used to validate architectures, interoperability, and performance of solutions across cloud, edge, and on-premises (on-prem) environments under realistic but controllable conditions.
Within a directory or marketplace taxonomy, KOREN aligns with categories such as research and education network backbone services, network testbeds and experimental platforms, SDN/NFV and next-generation network R&D infrastructure, and collaborative international research connectivity.
Our description of KOREN. Updated December 2025.
