# Upbit & Bithumb New Listings + Kimchi Premium (`kimchidesk/korea-crypto-listings`) Actor

Every new KRW listing on Upbit and Bithumb with price 15 min to 30 days after the first trade, the kimchi premium every 5 minutes, and Upbit investment-warning designations. Clean JSON, no scraping setup.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/kimchidesk/korea-crypto-listings.md
- **Developed by:** [kimchi desk](https://apify.com/kimchidesk) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Upbit & Bithumb New Listings + Kimchi Premium

Korea's two biggest crypto exchanges, **Upbit** and **Bithumb**, move markets when they list a coin. This Actor gives you clean, ready-to-use data on it — no scraping setup, no Korean-language APIs to figure out.

### What you get

**1. New listings with post-listing returns** (`mode: listings`)
Every new KRW-market listing (about the last 12 months, updated every 2 hours):

- first trade time and opening price (KRW)
- price and % return **15 min, 1 h, 4 h, 1 day, 3 days, 7 days and 30 days** after the first trade
- for listings detected live: when the market first appeared and the **head start** before trading opened (on Upbit typically 10–20 minutes)

**2. Kimchi premium history** (`mode: kimchi_premium`)
BTC kimchi premium (Upbit vs Binance at the official USD/KRW rate), USDT premium and USD/KRW — every 5 minutes, up to 30 days.

**3. Upbit investment-warning designations** (`mode: upbit_warnings`)
When Upbit flags a coin as 투자유의 (investment warning) — historically a common step before delisting reviews. This history isn't available from Upbit's API after the fact; it's recorded as it happens.

### Use cases

- Backtest "buy the Korean listing" or "fade the listing pump" strategies
- Track how Korean retail demand (kimchi premium) moves against your positions
- Feed alerts, dashboards, or research notebooks with structured Korea data

### Example output (listings)

```json
{
  "exchange": "Upbit",
  "symbol": "NIL",
  "name": "Nillion",
  "first_trade_at": "2026-10-27T07:46:00+00:00",
  "market_appeared_at": "2026-10-27T07:36:03+00:00",
  "head_start_minutes": 10,
  "open_price_krw": 159.0,
  "return_15m_pct": -13.84,
  "return_1h_pct": -15.72,
  "return_1d_pct": -20.75
}
```

### Pricing

Pay per result — you only pay for rows returned. Use **Max results** and the filters to control cost.

### Methodology & caveats

- Listing time = first 1-minute candle; later prices = the closing price of the 1-minute candle at each checkpoint.
- Rows older than the live tracker were reconstructed from exchange candle history and include only coins **still listed today** (survivorship bias: failed listings are under-represented).
- Data comes from public exchange APIs via [kimchidesk.com](https://kimchidesk.com). **Data only — not financial advice.**

Real-time alerts: [t.me/kimchidesk](https://t.me/kimchidesk)

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

Which data to return.

## `exchange` (type: `string`):

Only listings from this exchange (listings mode).

## `since` (type: `string`):

YYYY-MM-DD. Leave empty for all (about the last 12 months).

## `minReturn1dPct` (type: `integer`):

Only listings whose price 1 day after the first trade was at least this % above the open. Leave empty for no filter.

## `days` (type: `integer`):

How many days of 5-minute kimchi premium history to return (kimchi premium mode).

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of rows to return. You pay per row, so this caps the cost of a run.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "listings",
  "exchange": "all",
  "days": 7,
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All returned rows (listings, kimchi premium points, or Upbit warnings, depending on the selected dataset).

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("kimchidesk/korea-crypto-listings").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("kimchidesk/korea-crypto-listings").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call kimchidesk/korea-crypto-listings --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,kimchidesk/korea-crypto-listings"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/KRdFNpTCaVFhDbgU3/builds/p3ZfB8fecB4Wz3OJH/openapi.json