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KOCOH: Korean Context-Dependent Hate Speech Dataset

We introduce the KOrean COntext-dependent Hate speech dataset (KOCOH) to evaluate large language models’ ability to detect context-dependent hate speech in Korean. KOCOH consists of 3,000 context-comment pairs collected from Korean online communities (Dcinside, FMkorea) with detailed annotations, including labels for hate speech and hate target groups. We assess the context-dependent hate speech detection capabilities of both humans and 11 state-of-the-art large language models, including GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 2.5 Flash. Our results show that humans outperform language models, with GPT-5 achieving the highest performance among the evaluated models. While humans demonstrate balanced recall and specificity, language models generally show significantly higher specificity compared to recall. The performance of both humans and models is affected by factors such as Honam-related vocabulary and sentiment polarity. This study contributes resources to Korean hate speech research and empirically demonstrates the performance gap between humans and language models. Through both quantitative and qualitative analyses, we explore the similarities and differences between humans and language models, offering insights for future developments in language models and AI ethics research. KOCOH is available at https://github.com/eparkatgithub/KOCOH.