Autonomous system
AS9638 NH-AS National Agricultural Cooperative federation
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
National Agricultural Cooperative Federation (Nonghyup / NH)
enterprise legacy
AS9638 (NH-AS-KR) is held by the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation (농업협동조합중앙회), the umbrella body of South Korea's Nonghyup movement, branded NH. Nonghyup is far more than a farmers' association: the federation sits over a banking and insurance group, agricultural marketing and supply businesses, and retail operations, with a presence in essentially every county in the country.
What it's used for
RIS shows 44 IPv4 prefixes covering 11,264 addresses, no IPv6, and 3 observed neighbours. Three neighbours is the number that fixes the role: the federation buys transit from a small set of Korean carriers and carries nothing for anyone else. No peering fabric, no downstream customers, no wholesale function. Eleven thousand addresses is a corporate estate, not a provider's pool.
The composition of those 44 prefixes is the informative part. Every one is a /24, drawn from a wide spread of unrelated Korean blocks — 1.214.x, 1.230.x, 1.241.x, 1.255.x, 14.52.x, 61.42.x, 110.9.x, 121.157.x, 175.212.x, 210.108.x, 210.178.x, 211.38.x, 211.41.x, 222.98.x — with no aggregation anywhere. That is not how a single data centre is addressed. It is what you get when a nationally distributed organisation takes a small assignment from whichever carrier serves each region or site. For a federation whose member co-operatives, bank branches and depots blanket rural Korea, that fragmentation is what you would expect.
Notable
- Forty-four
/24s with no aggregation is an unusually fragmented inventory, consistent with a distributed branch network rather than a centralised one. - Nonghyup's banking arm (NH Bank) makes this one of the larger financial-sector organisations in the low-AS Korean range, though the AS carries only the federation's own edge.
- No IPv6 is announced.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-18, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 34 prefixes · 11.26K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| KR | Korea, Republic of | 34 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS9638- Registry name
- NH-AS-KR
- Abuse contact
- hostmaster@nic.or.kr
- Registered
- 1999-08-18
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 48 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS9638
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 75% registered · 36 of 48 announcements
- Route objects
- 45 naming AS9638
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 443 networks and 1,784 prefixes, as published 2026-10-19. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere