Korea Tour API — Multilingual Tourist Data 🇰🇷

Official Korea Tourism Organization (VisitKorea / TourAPI) data as clean JSON — tourist attractions, festivals, restaurants, shopping, and accommodation across all of South Korea, in 5 languages. No XML wrestling, no Korean-only docs, no data.go.kr headaches.

Perfect for travel apps, AI trip planners, chatbots, and K-tourism content riding the Korean-culture wave.

Why this exists

Korea's official tourism dataset is rich and free — but the raw government API returns XML, has Korean-only documentation, and a service-key flow that trips up most developers. This actor is the English bridge: you get normalized JSON with clean field names, bilingual titles, coordinates, images, and a ready-to-use Google Maps link for every place.

Four search modes

Mode	What it does	Use case
By area	List places in a region, by type	"All attractions in Seoul"
Nearby	Radius search around coordinates	"What's within 1.5 km of my hotel"
Keyword	Free-text search	"Find 'Gyeongbokgung'"
Festivals	Events by date	"Festivals happening this month"

Filter any mode by content type: Attractions, Cultural Facilities, Shopping, Accommodation, Leisure Sports, Restaurants, Festivals, Travel Courses.

Languages

English · Japanese · Chinese (Simplified) · Chinese (Traditional) · Korean — the same places, served in the language your users read.

Output

Each place includes: bilingual title, contentType, address, tel, latitude/longitude, image, mapUrl (Google Maps), plus distanceMeters (nearby mode) and eventStartDate/eventEndDate (festivals).

{
    "title": "Gyeongbokgung Palace (경복궁)",
    "contentType": "Cultural Facility",
    "address": "161, Sajik-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul",
    "latitude": 37.5796,
    "longitude": 126.9770,
    "image": "http://tong.visitkorea.or.kr/...jpg",
    "mapUrl": "https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=37.5796,126.977",
    "language": "en"
}

Zero setup — no Korean government account needed

Just run it. The actor ships with built-in access to the official API — you don't need to register at data.go.kr, read Korean documentation, or manage a service key. That's the whole point: we crossed the Korean-bureaucracy bridge so you don't have to.

Heavy user? Optionally plug in your own free data.go.kr key (apiKey input, stored as a secret) for dedicated quota.

Affiliation

Independent tool built on Korea Tourism Organization public open data. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Korea Tourism Organization.