Awesome Korean FOSS

A curated list of awesome open source projects created by Korean developers or Korean companies.

Inspired by awesome-tw-foss.

Contents

• Conditions for Listing
• Python
• Java
• JavaScript
• Ruby
• Rust
• Swift
• Objective-C
• PHP
• Tools
• Fonts

Conditions for Listing

• One of the main authors must be Korean, or the project must be maintained by a Korean company.
• The code must have CI, enough testing, and documentation.
• If the platform supports a package manager, it can be installed via a package manager.

Python

• Wand — ctypes-based simple ImageMagick binding for Python.
• libsass-python — Straightforward binding of libsass for Python. Compile Sass/SCSS with no Ruby stack at all.
• Hangulize — Korean alphabet transcription library.
• KoNLPy — Python package for Korean natural language processing.
• khaiii — Kakao Hangul Analyzer III: a Korean morphological analyzer based on CNN. (Kakao)
• buffalo — Scalable library for matrix factorization and approximate nearest neighbor search for recommender systems. (Kakao)
• n2 — Lightweight approximate nearest neighbor library with Python bindings. (Kakao)
• plate — API documentation tool based on Markdown using Python.

Java

• Netty — Event-driven asynchronous network application framework.
• Haeinsa — Linearly scalable multi-row, multi-table transaction library for HBase.
• Pinpoint — APM (Application Performance Management) tool for large-scale distributed systems. (NAVER)
• line-bot-sdk-java — LINE Messaging API SDK for Java. (LINE)

JavaScript

• Summernote — Super simple WYSIWYG editor built on Bootstrap.
• tui.editor — Markdown WYSIWYG editor with GFM support and extensible plugins. (NHN)
• tui.grid — Powerful Grid component with virtual scrolling and extensive features. (NHN)
• tui.calendar — Fully featured JavaScript calendar with extensive customization options. (NHN)
• egjs-flicking — Infinitely flexible, customizable carousel component. (NAVER)
• egjs-infinitegrid — Module for arranging card elements in an infinite grid layout. (NAVER)
• egjs-view360 — 360° panorama image and video viewer component. (NAVER)
• es-toolkit — Modern, performant utility library for JavaScript — a lodash alternative. (Toss)
• line-bot-sdk-nodejs — LINE Messaging API SDK for Node.js. (LINE)
• jews — Refine Korean news sites.
• yaksok.js — Yaksok Korean programming language toolkit.

Ruby

• CocoaSeeds — Git submodule alternative for Cocoa projects.

Rust

• rust-chrono — Date and time library for Rust.
• rust-encoding — Character encoding support for Rust.

Swift

• Then — ✨ Super sweet syntactic sugar for Swift initializers.
• URLNavigator — ⛵ Elegant URL routing for Swift.

Objective-C

• FoundationExtension — Foundation/Cocoa/UIKit extension kit.

PHP

• php-jira-rest-client — PHP client library for integrating with JIRA issue & bug tracker software.

Tools

• fzf — ⚡ A command-line fuzzy finder. (junegunn Choi)
• vim-plug — Minimalist Vim plugin manager. (junegunn Choi)
• fzf.vim — fzf-based fuzzy-search commands and mappings for Vim. (junegunn Choi)
• goyo.vim — Distraction-free writing in Vim. (junegunn Choi)

Fonts

• Spoqa Han Sans — Multilingual font supporting Roman, Hangul, Hiragana, Katakana, and Chinese characters. (Spoqa)
• D2Coding — Developer-friendly monospace font optimized for Korean. (NAVER)

License

To the extent possible under law, the contributors have waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.