⚖️ Korea FSS — Financial Supervisory Service Enforcement Actions (English)

Track Korean financial regulator (FSS + FSC) enforcement actions — fines, license revocations, sanctions, and investor warnings — via the official FSS English mirror.

The Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) and Financial Services Commission (FSC) together police every KOSPI, KOSDAQ, and KONEX issuer, plus all licensed Korean banks, securities firms, insurance companies, asset managers, and crypto exchanges. This actor scrapes the official FSS English-language press-release boards at fss.or.kr/eng so you can monitor sanctions, fines, and license actions against Korean financial-services firms and listed entities in clean JSON — no Korean reading skill required.

• ✅ Official FSS source — English mirror is the supervisor's own translation
• ✅ Covers FSS press releases (Board B0000211) + consumer warnings (B0000399)
• ✅ Heuristic action-type classification: fine / warning / license_revocation / sanction
• ✅ Fine amounts parsed in both KRW and USD with the rate used surfaced
• ✅ Bilingual fields: title / summary in English with Korean originals preserved when present
• ✅ Filter by enforcement category, target entity name (Korean or English), and date range
• ✅ Avoids www.fsc.go.kr (which rejects external TLS) — uses FSS English mirror as the resilient primary

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⚡ What you get

Each enforcement-action record contains:

Field	Description
action_id	Stable identifier {bbsId}-{nttId} matching the FSS press-release URL
target_entity_en	English target-entity name extracted from the press-release title
target_entity_kr	Korean target-entity name (한글) when present in the title/body
entity_type	firm or individual (heuristic based on title + body language)
action_type	fine, warning, license_revocation, sanction, or other
action_date	ISO publication date (YYYY-MM-DD) on the FSS English mirror
title_english	Original English-language FSS press-release title
summary_english	First ~1,000 chars of the English press-release body
summary_korean	Korean-language fragments retained from the title/body (where present)
fine_amount_KRW	Parsed fine amount in Korean won — null when the action is qualitative (e.g. license revocation)
fine_amount_USD	Same amount converted to USD using krw_per_usd_rate_used
krw_per_usd_rate_used	The KRW/USD rate used for conversion (so you can replace it with your own rate)
fss_or_fsc	FSS, FSC, or FSS+FSC based on which regulator the press release identifies
source_board	press_release (B0000211) or consumer_warning (B0000399)
source_url	Direct URL to the FSS English press-release detail page
attachments	PDFs / supplementary files linked from the press release
scraped_at	UTC timestamp when the actor pulled the record

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🎯 Use cases

• Korea-litigation defense counsel — monitor FSS sanctions and FSC corrective orders against Korean financial-services firms within minutes of public disclosure; cite the source URL in client memos
• Short-seller / activist (Korean equity) — flag KOSPI/KOSDAQ issuers with fresh FSS enforcement actions before the market fully prices them in
• Compliance officer at Korean listed entity — feed an internal enforcement-action watchlist (your own firm + competitors + counterparties) for benchmarking and audit-prep
• Korean M&A diligence partner — surface any FSS investigation, license revocation, or material fine on a target firm before the closing checklist freezes
• Cross-jurisdiction regulatory benchmarking — overlay FSS enforcement velocity against FCA, MAS, SFC, FTC, ASIC, and FINRA for Asia-Pacific regulator-trend research

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🚀 How to use

Sample input — last 30 days, all action types

{
  "action_type": "all",
  "target_filter": "",
  "date_from": "2026-05-01",
  "date_to": "2026-05-31",
  "max_actions": 50
}

Sample input — Samsung-related actions over the last quarter

{
  "action_type": "all",
  "target_filter": "삼성",
  "date_from": "2026-03-01",
  "date_to": "2026-05-31",
  "max_actions": 100
}

Sample input — fines only, last 90 days

{
  "action_type": "fine",
  "date_from": "2026-03-01",
  "date_to": "2026-05-31",
  "max_actions": 200
}

Python (apify-client)

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("nexgendata/korea-fss-english-enforcement").call(
    run_input={"action_type": "fine", "max_actions": 100}
)
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["target_entity_en"], item["action_type"], item["fine_amount_KRW"])

cURL

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/nexgendata~korea-fss-english-enforcement/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"action_type":"all","max_actions":25}'

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📊 Sample Output

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⚖️ Legal & data sources

• Source-of-record: https://www.fss.or.kr/eng/bbs/B0000211/list.do (Press Releases) + https://www.fss.or.kr/eng/bbs/B0000399/list.do (Warnings for consumers)
• Legal posture: FSS / FSC publish enforcement disclosure under FSCMA (자본시장과 금융투자업에 관한 법률) §437 — mandated public disclosure. Fully public. No commercial-use restriction on press releases.
• Why not www.fsc.go.kr? The FSC main English site rejects external TLS handshakes from non-Korean IPs (Korean-domestic CA). The FSS English mirror is the resilient public surface and republishes substantially the same enforcement content. The fss_or_fsc field surfaces which regulator the press release identifies.
• Translation lag: The FSS English mirror typically lags Korean originals by 1–3 weeks. For real-time Korean-language enforcement coverage, pair this actor with korea-dart-opendart-filings (DART filings) and korea-kind-disclosures (KIND exchange disclosures) once both are public.
• Polite UA + rate limits: This actor identifies itself as NexGenDataBot/1.0 (+https://thenextgennexus.com/bot; contact: hello@thenextgennexus.com) and waits 0.4-0.6s between requests to avoid burdening the FSS server.

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❓ FAQ

Q: Why are some fine_amount_KRW values null? A: Many enforcement actions are qualitative — license revocations, business-suspension orders, corrective orders, consumer warnings — and the FSS press release does not state a monetary number. We return null rather than guessing.

Q: How accurate is the action_type classification? A: It's a keyword-based heuristic on the English-language title and body. Items that match multiple categories (e.g. "fine + license revocation") are classified by the highest-priority signal in this order: license_revocation → fine → warning → sanction. The other bucket catches general enforcement context that doesn't clearly match a category.

Q: Why doesn't target_entity_en always populate? A: Many FSS English press releases describe the action (e.g. "Sanctions Imposed for Improper Trading") without naming the target in the title — the firm name is only in the body. We surface what we can confidently extract from the title; for body-level entity extraction, read summary_english.

Q: Can I get the original Korean text? A: When the FSS English mirror retains Korean characters in the title or body (which happens for proper nouns like firm names and quoted Korean-law clauses), we surface them via target_entity_kr and summary_korean. For full Korean-language coverage, use korea-dart-opendart-filings (DART originals) or the Korean-language FSS site at fss.or.kr/fss/main/main.do.

Q: How fresh is the data? A: The FSS publishes English-language press releases with a 1–3 week translation lag behind the Korean original. The actor pulls live each run — no caching layer.

Q: KRW/USD rate? A: We use a stable mid-2026 reference rate of 1380 KRW/USD and surface it in krw_per_usd_rate_used so you can recalculate fine_amount_USD with your own daily-spot rate if needed.

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한국어 설명

본 액터는 한국 금융감독원(FSS)의 영문 공식 사이트(fss.or.kr/eng)에서 금융 제재 정보를 수집합니다. 과징금, 인가취소, 시정명령, 투자자 경보 등 모든 영문 보도자료를 구조화된 JSON으로 제공합니다.

주요 용도

• 한국 금융감독원 제재·과징금 모니터링 (KOSPI, KOSDAQ, KONEX 상장사 + 등록 금융회사)
• 한국 금융위(FSC) 결의 사항 추적
• 외국인 투자자·해외 분석가용 한국 금융 enforcement 정보 영문 공급
• 컴플라이언스·실사 자료 자동화

입력 파라미터

• action_type — 제재 유형 (fine 과징금/과태료, warning 투자자 유의, license_revocation 인가취소, sanctions 시정명령/징계, all 전체)
• target_filter — 대상 회사명 (한글 또는 영문 부분 일치 검색, 예: 삼성, KB, Citibank)
• date_from / date_to — 조회 기간 (ISO 형식, 기본 최근 90일)
• max_actions — 최대 결과 수 (1~500)

데이터 출처 및 법적 근거

• FSS 영문 공식 보도자료 게시판 (B0000211 News/Press Releases + B0000399 Warnings for consumers)
• 자본시장과 금융투자업에 관한 법률(FSCMA) 제437조에 따른 의무 공시
• www.fsc.go.kr 영문 사이트는 외부 TLS 차단(국내 전용 CA)이 있어 사용 불가하므로, FSS 영문 미러를 주 소스로 사용합니다. 보도자료 본문에 명시된 발신처(FSS/FSC)는 fss_or_fsc 필드로 표시됩니다.

영문 미러 번역 지연

FSS 영문 미러는 한국어 원본 대비 약 1~3주 지연 게시되는 경향이 있습니다. 실시간 한국어 enforcement 모니터링이 필요한 경우 korea-dart-opendart-filings 액터와 병행 사용을 권장합니다.

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🔗 Related Actors

Pair this with other public NexGenData regulatory-enforcement actors for cross-jurisdiction Asia-Pacific compliance monitoring:

Slug	Region	What it does
sec-litigation-releases	🇺🇸 USA	SEC enforcement actions & litigation releases (Securities Act / Exchange Act)
ftc-enforcement-actions-scraper	🇺🇸 USA	FTC consumer-protection & antitrust enforcement actions
australia-asic-enforcement	🇦🇺 Australia	ASIC enforcement actions & infringement notices
singapore-mas-enforcement	🇸🇬 Singapore	MAS enforcement actions & supervisory decisions
hk-sfc-enforcement-tracker	🇭🇰 Hong Kong	Hong Kong SFC enforcement news & disciplinary actions
kospi-stock-screener	🇰🇷 Korea	KOSPI + KOSDAQ market-cap screener — join target firms by Korean name
sgx-company-announcements	🇸🇬 Singapore	SGX corporate disclosures — counterpart for cross-region trading-event alerts

Coming soon (currently private — will publish in a future wave; not linked yet to avoid dead outbound links): korea-kind-disclosures (KRX exchange-side announcements), korea-dart-opendart-filings (DART OpenDART filings — Korean originals supersede the English mirror for sub-week-fresh disclosures).

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