VPN & Proxy Detection — South KoreaDetect VPN, Proxy & Bot Traffic from South Korea
Sentinel scores every visitor's network in real time — flagging VPN exit nodes, residential proxies, datacenter ASNs, and headless browsers originating from South Korea. Free API. Under 40ms. No CAPTCHAs.
Why South Korea traffic needs special scrutiny
Datacenter ASN concentration
South Korea is gaming and crypto fraud particularly active, with KT and SK Broadband ranges most often abused.
Residential proxy resale
Consumer ISP ranges in South Korea are routinely sold through residential proxy networks like ShadowNode and Bright Data. These IPs look real but rotate every few minutes — a clear bot signature once you know what to look for.
VPN exit-node clustering
The same handful of hosting providers dominate VPN exit nodes in South Korea. Sentinel maintains live mappings of these ranges so a new IP from a known VPN ASN is flagged within seconds of going live.
Antidetect browser usage
Multi-accounting fraud against South Korean-targeted SaaS, fintech, and e-commerce increasingly uses Kameleo, GoLogin, or AdsPower to spoof device fingerprints. Sentinel scores these at the device layer, not the IP layer.
What Sentinel detects for South Korea traffic
- Every major VPN provider's South Korean exit nodes (NordVPN, ExpressVPN, ProtonVPN, Mullvad, Surfshark, and 40+ more)
- Residential proxy networks reselling consumer South Korean IPs (ShadowNode, Bright Data, Smartproxy, Oxylabs)
- Datacenter ASNs commonly used for automation (AWS, GCP, Azure, OVH, Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode)
- Tor exit nodes and known anonymous relays advertising South Korean geolocations
- Headless browsers (Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium) and antidetect tooling driving sessions from South Korea
- Country-spoofing — when a session claims to be in South Korea but the network telemetry says otherwise
One API call. Bearer token. Done.
const r = await fetch('https://sntlhq.com/v1/evaluate', {
method: 'POST',
headers: { 'Authorization': 'Bearer sk_live_...' },
body: JSON.stringify({ token: sentinelToken })
});
const { decision, country, network } = await r.json();
if (country === 'KR' && network.vpn) blockOrChallenge();
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