The Korean public data sources Search Funds Korea plans to use
Korea has official data on company profiles, summary financials of some private companies, filings, workforce, factories, establishments, permits, procurement and certifications. These are the sources planned, and what each one does not say.
This is a list of planned sources. It does not mean integration or loading is complete; responses, available fields and recent-date coverage are checked when each connector is built. No exhaustive free Korean equivalent of Japan's national legal-entity register has been established, so the corpus is a combination of source populations and makes no census claim.
Company and financial foundation
FSC enterprise basic information
Company overview, representatives, establishment date, industry, employees, principal business and affiliates. It includes some corporations that are not externally audited, but it is not a complete legal register. Published on business days.
FSC enterprise financial information
Reported sales, operating profit, assets, liabilities, capital and summaries. Companies that are not externally audited appear through summary financials; detailed statements or recent figures cannot be assumed for every company.
DART disclosures (FSS)
Filer master, English names, corporate registration numbers, representatives, addresses, industries and websites, plus original reports, structured accounts, officers, major shareholders and investments in other corporations. It lists DART filers, not all businesses.
NTS business registration status
Operating, suspended or closed status and tax category for a business registration number you already hold. It validates known numbers and cannot enumerate businesses.
Establishments and operating signals
National Pension Service establishments
Establishment name, address, industry, insured subscribers, assessed contributions and subscriber movements. Subscribers are not total employees, movements are not exact hires and departures, and contributions are not payroll. Identifier completeness is checked before use.
KICOX FactoryOn registered factories
Company name, industrial estate, products and factory address. Business registration numbers are not included, and one company can run several factories.
SEMAS store data
Establishment identifiers, trading names, industries, road and parcel addresses and coordinates. It describes operating establishments in scope, not a universal company master.
Permit data
Sector permit registers from the Ministry of the Interior and Safety and local governments, now on data.go.kr: business names, addresses, permit dates and administrative status. Current endpoints and coordinate systems are checked, and only datasets that allow commercial use are chosen.
Public Procurement Service (KONEPS)
Bids, awards, contracts, agencies and change history. Procurement shows public-sector activity, not annual revenue or a current private customer, and amended values are never summed with the original.
NHIS long-term care facilities
Facility addresses, service types, designation dates and staff. A facility record does not establish legal ownership, and older capacity and resident fields are not carried forward as current occupancy.
Certification, intellectual property and statistics
MSS venture confirmation
Company name, confirmation category, dates and validity. It is an application-based service with its own access review, so anonymous bulk lookup is not assumed.
KIPRIS Plus
Patent and other intellectual property data. The free call allowance is limited, so it is used for targeted enrichment of target companies.
KOSIS national statistics
Statistical tables, regional indicators, classifications and metadata. Aggregate market and regional context rather than individual companies, used with attribution.
Company websites and industry sources
Official sites, published reports, association pages and adviser directories. They are self-reported, so they are kept with their publication dates and collected at bounded rates under each source's terms.
Financial information in three layers
- FSC reported summaries: for screening the companies they cover.
- DART structured statements and original documents: for deeper research, where structured data is limited to listed companies and some major unlisted filers.
- Seller-authorized accounts and diligence: for normalized EBITDA, cash conversion, debt, working capital, customer concentration and other transaction-specific adjustments.
Currency, original unit and multiplier, reporting period, consolidated or standalone basis, publication date, source and corrections are kept together, and repeated snapshots of the same period are never summed. How these sources fit the product is in the platform overview.