Korea Flood-Damaged Car Check by Plate (침수차 조회)

Check South Korean license plates against the official flood-damage insurance records and find out whether a car was a flood total loss (침수전손) or had partial flood damage (침수분손) — with the accident date. Data comes from the Financial Services Commission's flood-damaged vehicle check (금융위원회 침수차량진위확인), compiled by the Korea Insurance Development Institute (보험개발원), and is refreshed daily.

No API key or Korean account needed. Paste plate numbers, get English JSON.

Typical uses

• Used-car exporters and importers — screen Korean used cars before buying for export (Central Asia, Middle East, Africa, Latin America).
• Auction buyers, dealers and inspectors — add a flood check to every vehicle report.
• Marketplaces and lenders — flag flood-damaged cars in listings or before financing.
• AI agents — "Was the Korean car 12가3456 ever flooded?"

Input

Field	Description
plates	Korean plate numbers, e.g. 12가3456, 123가4567, 서울12가3456. Spaces and hyphens are ignored. Up to 1,000 per run.

{ "plates": ["66우3717", "12가3456"] }

Output

One item per plate:

{
  "input": "66우3717",
  "plate": "66우3717",
  "status": "flood_record_found",
  "floodRecord": true,
  "records": [
    { "damageType": "total_loss", "damageTypeKo": "침수전손", "accidentDate": "2026-08-17", "accidentDateTime": "2026-08-17 06:00:00" }
  ],
  "dataAsOf": "2026-10-05",
  "coverageNote": "Covers vehicles with an insurance claim for flood damage ...",
  "source": "Financial Services Commission (금융위원회) flood-damaged vehicle check ...",
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-06T07:00:00+00:00"
}

status	Meaning
flood_record_found	At least one flood-damage insurance record exists for this plate.
no_record	No flood insurance claim on file for this plate.
invalid_input	Not a Korean plate format (free).
lookup_failed	The official source did not answer; retry later (free).

damageType: total_loss (insurer paid the car as a total loss due to flooding) or partial_damage (insurer paid for flood repairs).

Important: what "no record" means

The records cover vehicles with an insurance claim for flood damage (own-damage cover). A car that was flooded but uninsured, or repaired without a claim, is not in the data. Records are matched by the current plate number (현재차량번호) as held by the insurers. Use this as one signal in a vehicle check, not as proof that a car was never flooded.

Pricing

Pay per plate checked: $0.002 per plate (plate-check), whether or not a record is found — a clean result is also an answer. 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-flood-car-check

Source and license

금융위원회_침수차량진위확인 (data.go.kr 15124895), 이용허락범위 제한 없음. Data is passed through unchanged except for English field names and labels.

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