Gugak FM

This is one of the quieter entries in South Korea's listing, at 49 of 58. Stations at this depth are usually community, religious or single genre broadcasters rather than national networks, and the country's numbered pages are the only route to them.

The open count against Gugak FM is one, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

Gugak FM shares its leading tag, classical, with one other South Korea entry. Across every country the directory has 242 stations leading with it, so the rail below is mostly a trip abroad.

194 kbps, which puts Gugak FM above the 128 kbps that a typical entry in South Korea runs at.

Gugak FM publishes an HLS stream. That is a modern and perfectly good way to broadcast, and it is also why the button on this page may not start it: HLS needs a player that can read a playlist and fetch segments, which a browser audio tag does not do on its own.

The stream is served from mgugaklive.nowcdn.co.kr, an address two other entries in South Korea use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.