Asia Game License Check (Korea, China, Taiwan)

Asia Game License Check answers one question in one call: is this game rated or licensed in South Korea, China and Taiwan? Give it a game title and get one clean JSON row per country with the latest official status, date, platforms, similar registered titles and the details you need to verify it.

▶️ Try it in one click: the input form is prefilled with Monster Hunter / 怪物猎人. Just press Start to see the result for each country ($0.02). No subscription or setup: $0.02 only when at least one country has a matching record, otherwise $0.

• AI agents and chatbots: "Can this game be sold in China? What is it rated in Korea and Taiwan?" in one tool call.
• Publishing and licensing due diligence: check a title's status before a deal, a port or a launch plan.
• Name-mismatch hunting: similar registered titles with a similarity score show when a game is registered under a different local name.
• Monitoring: schedule a daily check of your titles and get notified when a new rating or approval appears.

Country	Official system	Source
🇰🇷 South Korea	Age rating (ALL / 12+ / 15+ / 18+)	GRAC / GCRB
🇨🇳 China (mainland)	Publishing license (版号 / banhao)	NPPA
🇹🇼 Taiwan	Age rating (G / P / PG12 / PG15 / R)	Ministry of Digital Affairs

Sample output

One row per country:

{
  "countryCode": "CN",
  "lookupStatus": "found",
  "gameTitle": "怪物猎人：旅人",
  "company": "重庆华龙网集团股份有限公司",
  "date": "2024-12-23",
  "dateType": "approved",
  "recordStatus": "APPROVED",
  "platformTypes": ["Mobile", "PC", "Console"],
  "candidates": [
    { "title": "怪物猎人世界", "similarity": 0.8, "latestDate": "2019-10-25", "matchedSearch": true },
    { "title": "宝物猎人", "similarity": 0.75, "latestDate": "2011-07-12", "matchedSearch": false }
  ],
  "country": "CN",
  "countryName": "China (mainland)",
  "systemType": "publishing license (版号 / banhao)",
  "searchedTitles": ["怪物猎人"],
  "found": true,
  "matchCount": 4,
  "status": "APPROVED",
  "latest": { "title": "怪物猎人：旅人", "date": "2024-12-23", "approvalNumber": "…", "isbn": "…", "operator": "…" },
  "dataRefreshedAt": "2026-10-08T20:00:12+00:00",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-09T15:03:56+00:00"
}

countryCode, gameTitle, company, date, dateType, recordStatus and platformTypes use the same names and values as our single-country Actors, so results can be combined directly.

Pricing

$0.02 per check, only when at least one country has a matching record. No platform usage fee on top.

Paid Apify plans pay less per check: Starter $0.018, Scale $0.015, Business and above $0.012. The examples below use the Free plan price.

Example	Cost
One game, Korea + China + Taiwan	$0.02
A list of 50 games, one check each	$1.00 (at most; titles not found anywhere are free)
Not found in any country	$0
Invalid input or data unavailable	$0

Need every rating of a month or every license of one company? Use our single-country Actors (Korea Game Rating Lookup, China Game Approval Tracker, Taiwan Game Rating Lookup), which search by company and date.

Update schedule

Each country's data is synced from the official source once a day at 05:00 Korea time (20:00 UTC). Every row shows when its country was last synced in dataRefreshedAt.

Coverage and limits

not_found does not mean "not approved" or "not rated". It only means no official record matched the title as you searched it. Games are often registered under a different local name (Korean, Simplified Chinese), a subtitle or an edition name. Check candidates for similar registered titles, and pass the local titles (titleKorean, titleSimplifiedChinese, titleTraditionalChinese) when you know them.

lookupStatus	Meaning	Charged
found	At least one official record matched	Yes, once per check if any country is found
not_found	No record matched the searched title(s). Not proof that the game is unrated or unlicensed	No (when no country is found)
error	This country's data could not be loaded right now	No
unavailable	Country temporarily not offered	No

Country notes:

• Korea: most mobile games are rated by app stores (IARC self-classification) and are not in government data, so not_found for a mobile game in Korea does not mean it is unavailable there.
• China: NPPA publishes titles in Simplified Chinese only. Set titleSimplifiedChinese (e.g. 原神 for Genshin Impact) for reliable results. Approvals not yet announced by NPPA are not included.
• Taiwan: titles are often registered under a Traditional Chinese name (Overwatch is 鬥陣特攻); set titleTraditionalChinese. Taiwan dates are release dates, not rating dates.

This is an unofficial tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by GRAC, GCRB, the NPPA, Taiwan's Ministry of Digital Affairs, the Digital Game Self-regulation Committee, or any government body.

Output fields

Every field also has an English description in the dataset schema (Output tab and API).

Field	Description
countryCode, country	KR, CN or TW
lookupStatus	found, not_found, error or unavailable (see table above)
gameTitle, company, date, dateType, recordStatus	The latest matching record, in the shared format of our country Actors. company is the applicant (Korea), the operator 运营单位 (China) or the registered company (Taiwan), never machine-translated. dateType is rated, approved or released (Taiwan)
platformTypes	Platforms across all matches: Mobile, PC, Console, Arcade, Web, Other
candidates	Up to 5 similar registered titles: title, similarity (0–1), latestDate, matchedSearch
found, matchCount, status	Legacy summary fields (found is true / false / null)
latest	Details of the latest matching record
platforms	Platform labels as published by each country
approvalCount, revocationCount	China only
matches	With includeMatches: true: up to 5 full matching records per country
dataRefreshedAt, fetchedAt	When the country data was synced, and when this check ran

How to use it

Input	Example	Notes
gameTitle	"Monster Hunter"	English or any language. Used for every country without a country-specific title
titleKorean	"엘든 링"	Optional, Korean registered title (searched together with gameTitle)
titleSimplifiedChinese	"怪物猎人"	Recommended for China
titleTraditionalChinese	"魔物獵人"	Optional, for Taiwan (searched together with gameTitle)
countries	["KR", "TW"]	Default: all three
includeMatches	false	Add up to 5 full records per country (price unchanged)

For AI agents

Example questions this Actor answers in one call:

• "Did Monster Hunter Wilds receive a China publishing license?"
• "What is Elden Ring rated in South Korea and Taiwan?"
• "Is this game approved in China and rated in Korea, and when?"
• "Is there a Korean rating for this game under a different title?"

Treat not_found as "no matching record for this spelling", never as "not approved". Look at candidates before concluding.

FAQ

Why two status fields? lookupStatus is the clear, recommended field. found and status are kept unchanged for existing integrations.

Found a problem or need another country? Please open an issue in the Issues tab.

Data sources and attribution

• South Korea: Game Rating and Administration Committee (GRAC) Open API (grac.or.kr), including decisions by the Game Content Rating Board (GCRB)
• China: National Press and Publication Administration (国家新闻出版署, NPPA) official website (nppa.gov.cn), game approval results
• Taiwan: Taiwan Entertainment Software Rating Information (數位娛樂軟體分級查詢網) (gamerating.org.tw), a program of the Ministry of Digital Affairs operated by the Digital Game Self-regulation Committee
• This Actor is an independent, unofficial tool and is not affiliated with any of these bodies. Always check critical decisions against the official websites.