Improving Search for Korean Content: Nori Analyser Support in Confluence Data Center

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Hi Community 

We're excited to announce native support for Korean language indexing in Confluence Data Center (10.2.14). This release improves search accuracy and relevance for Korean language users, addressing a critical gap for customers.

What's New?

Confluence Data Center now supports the Nori Korean language analyser for OpenSearch-backed search. This means:

• Better tokenisation: Korean text is now properly analysed and indexed, not treated as generic CJK characters

• Improved relevance: Search results are more accurate when searching for Korean content

• Custom dictionaries: Support for custom Korean dictionaries (similar to Japanese language support), giving you control over how specialised terms are indexed

• Easy configuration: Enable Korean indexing in minutes through Confluence General Configuration settings

Why This Matters

Many organisations with Korean-speaking teams rely on Confluence Data Center due to regulatory requirements or existing infrastructure investments. Previously, search functionality wasn't optimised for the Korean language, making it harder for teams to find relevant content quickly.

With this update, Korean customers get the same search quality, so your teams can focus on collaboration, not troubleshooting search.

How to Enable It

Getting started is straightforward:

1. Navigate to General Configuration in your Confluence Data Center instance

2. Select Korean as your indexing language

3. Rebuild your search index (Confluence will guide you through this)

4. (Optional) Configure custom Korean dictionaries for domain-specific terms

For detailed setup instructions and troubleshooting, see the Confluence search configuration guide.

Important Details

• Available in: Confluence 10.2.14+ and Confluence 11.0.0+

• Search platform: OpenSearch only (Lucene is not supported)

Support and Questions

If you have questions about implementing this feature or encounter any issues:

• Check the search configuration documentation

• Reach out to Atlassian Support with your instance details

What's Next?

This is one of several updates Atlassian is making to improve Data Center for global customers. We're committed to ensuring that teams in every region can use Confluence effectively, regardless of language.

If you have additional language support requests or feedback on this feature, we'd love to hear from you in the comments below!

[zoltanersek _outpostlabs_dev_]

Great to see continued investment in Data Center.