"Safe Guarantee and App Upgrade Drive Results"... Used Market Releases 2025 Year-End Settlement Data

Double-Digit Growth in Both Transaction Volume and Value Year-on-Year

Used Market released its "2025 Year-End Settlement" data on January 14, analyzing the company's major achievements and user trends throughout 2025.

In 2025, Used Market launched a large-scale Safe Guarantee Project in July to enhance transaction trust and undertook an upgrade of its proprietary app platform. As a result, both the number of transactions and total transaction value on Used Market increased by 78.5% and 90.5%, respectively, compared to the previous year. Notably, in December, the company achieved its highest-ever monthly transaction value, which was 3.2 times higher than the same period a year earlier.

Used Market identified the improvement of user convenience through app upgrades as the main driver for the surge in transactions. With significant enhancements to in-app transaction features such as the AI-powered product listing function, an average of about 70,000 new items were registered daily last year, equating to approximately 50 new products every minute. The total cumulative number of product posts surpassed 1.155 billion.

Used Market 2025 Year-End Settlement Data. Used Market

The implementation of the Safe Guarantee Project also led to an increase in high-value transactions. The number of transactions involving products priced over 4 million won grew by 101% year-on-year, more than doubling. The highest-priced Safe Payment transaction in 2025 was for an "agricultural transport robot," which was sold for 61 million won.

Platform user metrics also showed strong growth. In the fourth quarter of last year, the average monthly active users (MAU) of the Used Market app increased by 53% compared to the same period the previous year, while the average number of new app installations per month reached approximately 300,000.

The categories with the highest transaction volumes were fashion apparel, hobbies, sports, laptops/PCs, and home appliances, in that order. The most frequently searched keywords were "Lego" and "fountain pen," highlighting a strong trend toward hobby-focused secondhand trading.

The total number of parcel deliveries reached about 2.3 million. The most active day for transactions during the week was Tuesday, with the busiest time at 5 p.m.

Choi Inwook, CEO of Used Market, stated, "In 2025, we focused on strengthening the core value of trust in secondhand trading through the Safe Guarantee Project and enhancing competitiveness of our proprietary platform. As these efforts have been proven by tangible indicators such as increased transaction activity and service growth, we will continue to advance a trust-based trading environment to ensure sustainable growth going forward."