Average penis size in South Korea 🇰🇷
What the published literature reports for South Korea, which study it comes from, and how much weight that figure can carry.
The figure
Stretched length · South Korea
12.03 cm
4.74 in
That's 0.9 cm below the worldwide average of 12.93 cm.
Near the bottom here: only 17% of the 24 countries come in lower.
Source: Hwang et al., 2005 · 1,767 men · Measured by clinician.
The study behind it
The figure comes from Hwang et al., 2005, which measured 1,767 men. Method: measured by clinician.
This study did not record a bone-pressed measurement, which means it will read roughly a centimetre lower than a bone-pressed study of the same men. When you compare this row against a bone-pressed one, part of what you are seeing is the ruler.
A sample of 1,767 men puts this in the mid-range of the studies used here.
How it compares
South Korea ranks #20 of the 24 countries in the game. That is 0.74 cm below the median of this list (12.77 cm).
Both of those comparisons are against a list of two dozen countries chosen by which studies exist, not by any sampling of the world. Treat the rank as a fact about this dataset rather than a fact about the planet.
Countries with a similar published figure
| Country | Stretched | Men measured |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 12.43 cm | 582 |
| Greece | 12.18 cm | 52 |
| South Korea | 12.03 cm | 1,767 |
| Iran | 11.58 cm | 1,500 |
| Tanzania | 11.5 cm | 93 |
What this figure is not
It is not a description of any individual man from South Korea. The spread between individual men inside a single country is several times larger than the gap between any two countries on this list, which means a national average carries almost no information about a person.
It is also not medical advice or a benchmark to measure yourself against. If size is something you have been worrying about, the guide on what the pooled data actually shows is a more useful page than this one, and a doctor is more useful than either.