Korea Financial Company Lookup (금융위원회 금융회사 기본정보)

Look up South Korean financial companies — banks, securities firms, insurers, card and capital companies, savings banks, asset managers, investment advisers and financial holding companies — in the Financial Services Commission's daily financial company overview (금융위원회 금융회사기본정보). Search by Korean or English name, corporate registration number (법인등록번호) or business registration number (사업자등록번호) and get an English profile:

• official Korean and English names, corporate and business numbers, DART company code
• KOSPI / KOSDAQ listing and delisting dates, stock code
• founding date, fiscal year end, industry code (KSIC), head office address, phone, website
• employees, average tenure and average salary from the latest annual report
• external auditor and audit opinion (unqualified / qualified / adverse / disclaimer / no exceptions noted)

No API key or Korean account needed. One run reads the newest daily snapshot (~1,100 companies) once and matches all your queries against it, so it is fast even for 200 names.

Typical uses

• Fintech KYB and correspondent banking — confirm the legal identity of a Korean bank, broker or insurer counterparty and get its numbers in one call.
• Compliance and vendor due diligence — audit opinion, auditor and whether the company record still looks alive (possiblyInactive).
• Data enrichment — map an English name to the Korean registered name, corporate number and DART code for further filings lookups.
• AI agents — "What is the corporate registration number and auditor of Mirae Asset Securities?"

Input

Field	Description
companies	One per line: Korean or English name (신한은행, KB Securities), 13-digit corporate registration number (110111-0012809) or 10-digit business number. Up to 200 per run.
matchMode	exact (default): the Korean or English name must equal the query, ignoring 주식회사 / (주) / Co., Ltd., spaces and punctuation. contains: every company whose name contains the text (e.g. all Shinhan group companies). Numbers always match exactly.
maxResultsPerQuery	Default 5, up to 50. Each company returned is one charged result; the most recently updated records come first.

{ "companies": ["신한은행", "Mirae Asset Securities", "110111-0002959"], "matchMode": "exact" }

Output

One item per matched company:

{
  "input": "KB Securities",
  "query": { "type": "name", "value": "KB Securities" },
  "matchMode": "exact",
  "status": "found",
  "snapshotDate": "2026-10-09",
  "nameKo": "케이비증권 주식회사",
  "nameEn": "KB SECURITIES CO.,LTD",
  "corporateRegistrationNumber": "110111-0042476",
  "businessNumber": "116-81-29539",
  "dartCorpCode": "00164876",
  "market": "unlisted/other",
  "stockCode": null,
  "establishedOn": "1962-06-01",
  "fiscalYearEndMonth": 12,
  "industryCode": "66121",
  "industryGroup": "activities auxiliary to finance (securities, asset management, advisory, exchanges)",
  "address": "서울특별시 영등포구 여의나루로 50 (여의도동, 한국교직원공제회관)",
  "phone": "1588-6611",
  "website": "www.kbsec.com",
  "employees": 2970,
  "avgTenureYears": 16.6,
  "avgAnnualSalaryKrw": 167000000,
  "auditor": "삼일회계법인",
  "auditOpinion": "no exceptions noted",
  "auditOpinionKo": "예외사항없음",
  "recordUpdatedOn": "2026-03-25",
  "possiblyInactive": false,
  "error": null,
  "coverageNote": "Covers about 1,100 companies in the FSC financial company list ...",
  "source": "Financial Services Commission (금융위원회) financial company overview (금융회사기본정보), via data.go.kr",
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T13:40:03+00:00"
}

(The listing-date fields kospiListedOn, kospiDelistedOn, kosdaqListedOn, kosdaqDelistedOn are always present and null when empty.)

status	Meaning
found	One item per matched company.
not_found	No company with this name or number in the list — free.
invalid_input	Empty line or a number with a wrong check digit or length — free.
lookup_failed	The official source did not answer; retry later — free.

Limitations — what is not included

• Not a licence register. The list is the FSC's financial company file built from DART (FSS electronic disclosure) company records. It does not say which licences a firm holds or whether a licence is currently valid — for that, check the FSS Financial Consumer Information Portal (fine.fss.or.kr).
• Old and merged firms remain. Names of merged, renamed or dissolved firms stay in the list (for example a pre-merger card company). Results are sorted newest-record first; possiblyInactive is true when no staff is reported and the record has not changed for 3+ years. A few non-financial group affiliates also appear.
• Staff, salary and audit fields are often empty. About 80% of entries — mostly small asset managers, advisers and savings banks — report no employees or salary (returned as null, not 0); audit opinions are present for about 15%.
• Representative (CEO) names are not returned, by design.
• Only ~1,100 companies. Foreign bank branches and many small firms are listed, but this is not every financial business in Korea (no money lenders, P2P or crypto exchanges registry). For general Korean companies use Korea Business Check.
• Addresses, auditor names and Korean names are returned as filed (Korean); dates are as filed by the source, including occasional obvious typos in old listing dates.

Pricing

Pay per company returned: $0.003 per company (company-record). Queries not found, invalid inputs and failed lookups are free.

Use as an MCP tool (Claude, Cursor, other AI agents)

Add the Apify MCP server with this Actor:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=kr-data/korea-financial-institution-registry

Source and license

금융위원회_금융회사기본정보 (data.go.kr 15043232), 이용허락범위 제한 없음. Data is passed through with English field names and labels; representative names are removed.

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