Korea Company Search – B2B Leads from Official Government Data

Find South Korean companies by region, industry and headcount in seconds. Every record comes from the Korean National Pension Service (NPS) workplace registry, the most complete official list of employers in Korea, delivered with English field names, English industry names and romanized city names.

No Korean language skills, no government API key, no scraping.

What you get

• 550,000+ active employers across all 17 provinces and metropolitan cities: 510,000 corporations plus 44,000 sole proprietorships with 10+ employees
• Real headcount: employees enrolled in the national pension (a reliable proxy for company size)
• Growth signals: new hires and departures last month, and the date the company first registered
• Location: province, city/district (romanized) and the Korean street address
• Industry: English name, original Korean name and the national industry code (KSIC-based)
• asOf and source fields on every row, so you always know how fresh the data is

Typical uses

• Lead lists for sales into Korea: "software companies in Gangnam with 50–300 employees"
• Market sizing: count companies by industry and region
• New-business prospecting: companies that registered this year (registeredAfter)
• Hiring signals: sort by Most new hires last month to find companies that are growing right now
• AI agents: call it as a tool through the Apify MCP server to answer questions about Korean companies

Input example

{
  "province": "Seoul",
  "city": "Gangnam-gu",
  "industry": "software",
  "minEmployees": 50,
  "maxEmployees": 300,
  "sortBy": "employees_desc",
  "maxResults": 100
}

Output example

{
  "companyName": "예시소프트(주)",
  "legalForm": "Co., Ltd.",
  "entityType": "corporation",
  "nameMasked": false,
  "businessRegNoPrefix": "123456",
  "province": "Seoul",
  "city": "Gangnam-gu",
  "cityKo": "강남구",
  "addressKo": "서울특별시 강남구 테헤란로",
  "industry": "Application software development and supply",
  "industryKo": "응용 소프트웨어 개발 및 공급업",
  "industryCode": "722000",
  "employees": 120,
  "employeeBand": "50-299",
  "newHiresLastMonth": 4,
  "departuresLastMonth": 2,
  "netHiringLastMonth": 2,
  "registeredOn": "2001-05-01",
  "isWorksite": false,
  "asOf": "2026-07",
  "source": "Korea National Pension Service, workplace dataset (data.go.kr 15083277)"
}

(Fictional example showing the format.)

Pricing

$0.004 per company returned ($4 per 1,000). No start fee. You only pay for results you receive; set maxResults to cap your spend.

Data notes

• Source: Korean National Pension Service workplace dataset, published monthly on the Korean government open data portal (data.go.kr) under an unrestricted-use license. Data is refreshed monthly; asOf shows the reference month (usually 1–2 months behind the release date).
• Coverage: corporations with 3+ pension enrollees and sole proprietorships with 10+ enrollees. Personal names inside sole-proprietorship business names are masked (e.g. a clinic named after its doctor is returned as ○○○내과의원, nameMasked: true).
• Business registration number: only the first 6 digits are published by the source.
• Worksites: some construction and project sites are registered as separate workplaces. They are excluded by default (excludeWorksites).
• Not official statistics: the source states that this data should not be used as official statistics. It is intended for company lookup and prospecting.
• No contact data: this Actor does not provide emails or phone numbers of individuals.

Related Actors

More official Korean business data from the same publisher:

• Korea New Business Openings — businesses licensed or registered in the last days
• Korea Hiring Signals — companies growing headcount right now
• Korea Business Status Check — active / suspended / closed by business number

Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent product. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or operated by the Korean government or any of the agencies named above. Data is provided as published by the source, without warranty; English translations and romanized place names are generated automatically and may contain errors. The data is intended for business lookup and prospecting, not as official statistics. No personal contact data (phone numbers, emails) is returned.

FAQ

Can I search in English? Yes. Province, city and industry filters accept English (e.g. Gangnam-gu, software). Korean also works.

Why are company names in Korean? Korean companies register their legal names in Korean. We return the exact legal name so you can match it with other Korean sources, plus the legal form in English.

How is headcount measured? It is the number of employees enrolled in the National Pension Service at that workplace, which covers almost all full-time employees in Korea.

How fresh is the data? Rebuilt every month from the latest government release. Check asOf.