Naver Cafe

Naver Cafe opened on 15 December 2003. To post, comment or buy in a café you need a Naver account, and Naver only lets you sign up with a mobile phone, though the phone does not have to be in your name. Each café then sets its own membership rules.

Since 24 September 2025, cafés can offer Naver flea-market safe trading (네이버 플리마켓 안전거래): Naver Pay holds the money until the buyer confirms the purchase. Both buyer and seller need Naver Pay and a Naver certificate, which in turn requires a mobile number and a bank account in your own name, so it is hard to use without living in Korea. Posts without safe trading are still common.

Instead of searching café by café, BuyHub searches the trading posts across Naver Cafe at once. Type in English, set a price range, sort by newest or by price and keep only recent posts or those with photos. A radar keeps watching those posts day and night, and you can add Joongna, Bunjang or Daangn to the same search.

Naver Cafe is the online community service run by the South Korean web portal Naver, and one of the largest forum platforms in South Korea. Each “café” is a themed group with its own managers, and thousands of them are devoted to buying and selling second-hand goods, including the original Joonggonara café. Listings are fixed-price posts written by private individuals, and every community sets its own rules: many require joining, sometimes with a minimum level of activity, before members can post or comment.

For collectors, the appeal lies in the sheer range of communities: beyond the big general trading cafés, there are hobby cafés with their own sales boards. Listings are written in Korean and priced in South Korean won. Sellers are private individuals who usually deal within South Korea, so it is worth confirming whether they are willing to ship abroad before agreeing on a sale.