Is JobPlanet still an independent company in 2026?

No. JobKorea acquired JobPlanet's platform, staff and operations via asset purchase, closing Dec 31, 2025. The entity was renamed Jobplanet LLC and folded into JobKorea's new parent umbrella Worksphere effective Jan 1, 2026, ending its independent status.

Is JobPlanet profitable?

No public profitability figures exist. JobPlanet last raised outside funding in 2015 and has disclosed no revenue since; its purchase price in the Dec 2025 JobKorea acquisition was not disclosed, leaving no verified financial picture as of 2026.

Who owns JobPlanet now?

JobKorea owns JobPlanet after acquiring it via asset deal, closed Dec 31, 2025. JobKorea itself is owned by Hong Kong private equity firm Affinity Equity Partners since a March 2021 deal, with both now sitting under the Worksphere group umbrella launched Jan 2026.

Could AI replace JobPlanet's core product?

JobPlanet's job is synthesizing scattered employee sentiment into reviews, something LLMs do well at scale. Its 12-year proprietary Korean review dataset is a partial defense, but an Oct 17, 2024 investigation found fabricated reviews for Kakao and POSCO E&C were approved without verification, weakening trust in that moat.

Who is JobPlanet's biggest competitor?

Blind is the sharpest competitive threat, verifying reviewers via corporate email versus JobPlanet's weaker process exposed in an Oct 17, 2024 report. JobKorea, its own parent since Dec 2025, and Wanted Lab, which rebranded its enterprise AI unit to Enoia in April 2026, are also direct rivals.

Did JobPlanet have a data integrity scandal?

Yes. An Oct 17, 2024 investigative report found a reporter could post fabricated premium reviews for companies like Kakao and POSCO E&C he never worked at, exposing weak verification compared to rivals Saramin, Incruit, and Blind, which require employment proof.

Job boards and HR platforms · subsidiary of JobKorea (operating under Worksphere parent group, owned by Affinity Equity Partners) · South Korea

JobPlanet

jobplanet.co.kr ↗

Korean employer-review and job site, like Glassdoor, now owned by JobKorea.

Losing its protection

Assessed 30 July 2026 · Evidence as of 30 July 2026

The structural protection is eroding.

On the recordSince 30 July 2026 · Checkable from H1 2026 · Every call on the record Checkpoint: Worksphere's Career Agent and Talent Agent AI rollout

The call

JobPlanet's review data still has value, but it now lives inside JobKorea's Worksphere, and whether it stays a distinct product or becomes a data feed for AI agents is unresolved.

JobPlanet collected company reviews and employee feedback since 2013 to help job seekers make decisions. In 2024 a trust problem hit when reviews were questioned, and the bigger company JobKorea bought it outright in late 2025, making it no longer independent. The reason JobPlanet could not survive alone: AI tools like ChatGPT can now generate the same kind of employer opinions from public data, and a competing app called Blind already verifies reviews more strictly. The question that matters is whether JobPlanet's old reviews become the secret ingredient inside JobKorea's new AI career advisor launching in early 2026, or whether they just become old data that gets ignored once the AI learns to make recommendations on its own.

Why

AI pressure: Worksphere's planned Career Agent/Talent Agent AI tools. AI agents built to summarize employer sentiment could replace the need to browse JobPlanet's own review pages. Could AI do the core job? Only partly.

Bigger players: JobKorea (now Worksphere). JobKorea bought JobPlanet outright in Dec 2025 and folded it into its Worksphere umbrella alongside Albamon and NineHire. Could a giant copy it? Yes, easily.

What protects it. JobPlanet's review database, built since 2013, is still the largest employer-sentiment archive in Korea, even after trust took a hit.

What would change this call

Worksphere's H1 2026 'Career Agent'/'Talent Agent' launch names JobPlanet as data backbone or omits it. Shows whether JobPlanet's review data is strategically vital or just an absorbed feed.
JobPlanet review-verification policy tightens to employment-email standard by mid-2026. Would show Worksphere is repairing the 2024 fabricated-review trust gap.
JobPlanet brand/app disappears or merges into JobKorea's core app by Q4 2026. Would confirm rapid team consolidation and loss of independent product identity.

Key numbers

Acquisition by JobKorea closed Dec 31, 2025 (2025-12-31)
JobPlanet reported 1.5M monthly users at deal time (2025-12)
JobKorea has ~30M members, ~40% market share (2019)

Named risks

Review verification remains weak, allowing fabricated content as documented Oct 17, 2024. Severity: high
AI agents synthesizing employer sentiment could undercut JobPlanet's premium subscription paywall. Severity: high
Full absorption into Worksphere/JobKorea could erase JobPlanet's distinct brand and team. Severity: medium
No disclosed revenue or profitability since 2015 funding round, financial opacity persists. Severity: medium

Rivals, as read in July 2026

Rival	Direction	Evidence
JobKorea	losing to	Acquired JobPlanet outright via asset deal, closed Dec 31, 2025, absorbing it into Worksphere
Blind	gaining on	Verifies reviewers via corporate email, contrasted with JobPlanet's weak process exposed Oct 17, 2024
Wanted (Wanted Lab)	contesting	Rebranded LaaS unit to Enoia, expanding into enterprise AI transformation market, April 2026
Saramin	gaining on	Requires employment verification for reviews, cited as stricter than JobPlanet in Oct 2024 report
Incruit	gaining on	Requires employment verification, contrasted favorably against JobPlanet's weaker checks, 2024

Questions people ask

Is JobPlanet still an independent company in 2026?: No. JobKorea acquired JobPlanet's platform, staff and operations via asset purchase, closing Dec 31, 2025. The entity was renamed Jobplanet LLC and folded into JobKorea's new parent umbrella Worksphere effective Jan 1, 2026, ending its independent status.
Is JobPlanet profitable?: No public profitability figures exist. JobPlanet last raised outside funding in 2015 and has disclosed no revenue since; its purchase price in the Dec 2025 JobKorea acquisition was not disclosed, leaving no verified financial picture as of 2026.
Who owns JobPlanet now?: JobKorea owns JobPlanet after acquiring it via asset deal, closed Dec 31, 2025. JobKorea itself is owned by Hong Kong private equity firm Affinity Equity Partners since a March 2021 deal, with both now sitting under the Worksphere group umbrella launched Jan 2026.
Could AI replace JobPlanet's core product?: JobPlanet's job is synthesizing scattered employee sentiment into reviews, something LLMs do well at scale. Its 12-year proprietary Korean review dataset is a partial defense, but an Oct 17, 2024 investigation found fabricated reviews for Kakao and POSCO E&C were approved without verification, weakening trust in that moat.
Who is JobPlanet's biggest competitor?: Blind is the sharpest competitive threat, verifying reviewers via corporate email versus JobPlanet's weaker process exposed in an Oct 17, 2024 report. JobKorea, its own parent since Dec 2025, and Wanted Lab, which rebranded its enterprise AI unit to Enoia in April 2026, are also direct rivals.
Did JobPlanet have a data integrity scandal?: Yes. An Oct 17, 2024 investigative report found a reporter could post fabricated premium reviews for companies like Kakao and POSCO E&C he never worked at, exposing weak verification compared to rivals Saramin, Incruit, and Blind, which require employment proof.

Timeline

2026-07-21JobPlanet completes UX overhaul, shifting from search to AI recommendation model
2026-06-24Launches JobPlanet Wiki, a Gen Z focused career content channel
2026-04-14Completes brand identity overhaul as career decision platform
2026-03-10Launches 2026 JobPlanet Awards naming 31 top employers
2026-01-29JobKorea rebrands parent group as Worksphere, unifying JobPlanet under it
2026-01-01JobPlanet folded into Worksphere umbrella, renamed Jobplanet LLC
2025-12-31JobKorea's asset purchase of JobPlanet closes
2025-12-17JobKorea announces agreement to acquire JobPlanet via asset deal
2024-10-17Investigation exposes fabricated reviews approved without employment verification
2021-03-04Affinity Equity Partners acquires JobKorea, JobPlanet's future parent

Revision history

30 July 2026

First assessed. Losing its protection. The text above is fixed as of this date and is not edited afterwards.

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