Korea Hiring Signals – Companies Growing Headcount Now

Find South Korean companies that are hiring right now. Every month the Korean National Pension Service publishes, for each employer, how many employees joined and left. This Actor turns that into ready-to-use hiring signals with English field names.

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

Who uses it

• Recruiters and HR tech: companies adding staff fastest, by region and industry
• B2B SaaS sales: growing companies need payroll, HR, IT, office and benefits vendors
• Investors and analysts: headcount momentum across Korean industries
• AI agents: call it as a tool through the Apify MCP server

What you get per company

companyName (Korean legal name), legalForm, province, city (romanized), addressKo, industry (English), industryKo, industryCode, employees, newHiresLastMonth, departuresLastMonth, netHiringLastMonth, hiringRatePct, registeredOn, asOf, source.

Input example

{
  "province": "Seoul",
  "industries": ["software"],
  "minEmployees": 50,
  "minNewHires": 5,
  "sortBy": "hiring_rate",
  "maxResults": 100
}

Output example (fictional values)

{
  "companyName": "예시테크(주)",
  "legalForm": "Co., Ltd.",
  "province": "Seoul",
  "city": "Gangnam-gu",
  "industry": "Application software development and supply",
  "employees": 180,
  "newHiresLastMonth": 24,
  "departuresLastMonth": 3,
  "netHiringLastMonth": 21,
  "hiringRatePct": 13.3,
  "asOf": "2026-07",
  "source": "Korea National Pension Service, workplace dataset (data.go.kr 15083277)"
}

Pricing

$0.004 per company returned ($4 per 1,000). Set maxResults to cap your spend.

Data notes

• Source: Korean National Pension Service workplace dataset, monthly, published on data.go.kr under an unrestricted-use license. asOf is the reference month (usually 1–2 months behind release).
• New hires include people resuming contributions, and departures include contribution exemptions, so figures can differ slightly from actual hires and exits (source's own note).
• Coverage: corporations with 3+ enrollees and sole proprietorships with 10+ enrollees. Personal names inside sole-proprietorship names are masked. Temporary construction worksites are excluded.
• Related Actors: Korea Company Search, Korea New Business Openings, Korea Business Status Check.

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.