buyKOREA Scraper & API - Korean Suppliers, Products & Prices

buyKOREA scraper for importers, sourcing agents, distributors and B2B lead-gen teams: enter a product keyword such as cosmetics, led lighting or auto parts and get Korean B2B products and their suppliers from buyKOREA.org, the official B2B marketplace run by KOTRA (Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency), as clean JSON, CSV or Excel. Each row is one product with the USD price tiers, MOQ, HS code, category and specs, plus the supplier's profile: business type, website, address, employees, annual revenue band, year established, main export markets and description. Switch to companies mode for a pure Korean supplier lead list. Use it as a Korean manufacturer directory scraper, a K-beauty supplier finder, or an unofficial buyKOREA API from your own code, Make, Zapier or n8n.

It calls the same search API buyKOREA's own pages use, over plain HTTP, with no browser and no login. 50 products with supplier profiles took 20.4 seconds in a cloud run on 29 Oct 2026 and 12.4 seconds in a local run on 4 Nov 2026. $1.50 per 1,000 results, supplier profiles included, no start fee; the default 50-row run costs $0.075.

What you get

• Product: name (English, plus Korean when different), model number, product URL, image, product class (Commercial / Materials / Services), category with code, HS tariff code, supplier keywords, summary, specification text.
• Wholesale terms: USD price tiers ([{ maxQuantity, price, unit }]), priceMin / priceMax as numbers, "price on request" flag, MOQ with unit, Halal flag, online-payment flag, views / inquiries / orders on buyKOREA, listing dates.
• Supplier: company name (English and Korean), buyKOREA storefront, website, business type (Manufacturer, Distributor, Trading Company...), address, country, employees, annual revenue band (USD), year established, main export markets, main product categories, company description, logo.
• Owner / CEO names and seller staff logins are not collected.

Sample output

Real rows from the default-input cloud run on 29 Oct 2026 (cosmetics, 50 products, 16 suppliers):

Product	Price (USD)	MOQ	HS code	Supplier	Business type	Website	Founded
Malgledam Centella Asiatica Extract 1L	8.34-10.01	50 Pieces	330499	THEAREUM INC	Manufacturer&Distributor	theareum.co.kr	2008
Elliegrace Ellie Solution Mask Pack (Soothing & Wrinkle Care) 5sheets	on request	10000 Boxes	330420	SCGLORY Co., Ltd.	Distributor	scglory.com	2022
FFE LES SENS DES MAINS Perfumed Hand Cream – ÉCLAT ROSE 40 mL	on request	100 Pieces	330499	Korea Total Solution Co.,LTD	Distributor	ffebeauty.com	2015
WEGLAN k-ginseng repair glow ampoule	on request	180 Pieces	330499	KIM HWASACO.,LTD.	Manufacturer&Distributor	weglan.co.kr	2024
UAVO Lava Water Hydra Soothing Toner	on request	66 Pieces	330499	CNL Corporation	Manufacturer&Distributor	-	2026

Fill rates on those 50 rows: HS code, MOQ, category, supplier address, business type and year established 100%, supplier website 94%, specifications 70%, employees 30%, revenue band 26%, published price 20% (most Korean suppliers quote on request).

Use cases

• Sourcing from Korea: K-beauty, cosmetics raw materials, food (kimchi, ginseng, ramen), auto parts, machinery, electronics, medical devices, textiles. Compare MOQ and price tiers across suppliers.
• Lead generation: build lists of Korean manufacturers and exporters with website, size, founding year and export markets, then enrich or contact them through their own sites.
• Trade and market research: HS codes per product, which categories Korean exporters push, supplier size and age distribution.
• Distributors and agencies: find brands to represent in your market (the mainMarkets field shows where they already sell).

Pricing

$1.50 per 1,000 results (pay per result), no start fee. Failed requests and filtered rows are never charged. The default 50-row run costs $0.075. Apify platform usage and proxies are included in the price; set a maximum cost per run in Apify to cap any run.

You scrape	You pay
20 products (prefilled run)	$0.03
50 products (default run)	$0.075
1,000 products	$1.50
10,000 products	$15.00

The Apify free plan's $5 monthly credit covers about 3,300 results.

This is the only buyKOREA actor we found on the Store (search of 7 Nov 2026). The tradeKorea scrapers, the nearest Korean B2B alternatives, charge $2.80 (getascraper) and $3.00 + $0.00005 per run (scrapingmonkey) per 1,000; our own TradeKorea and GobizKOREA scrapers are $1.50.

FAQ

Is this the official buyKOREA API? No. We found no public self-serve API for buyKOREA product and supplier search. This is an independent tool that reads the public buyKOREA website the same way its own search page does. It is not affiliated with KOTRA.

What does a typical run cost? A 200-supplier K-beauty lead list (uniqueSuppliers: true, maxResultsPerSearch: 200) costs $0.30. A weekly check of 5 keywords x 100 products is about $3.25 a month.

Why do most products have no price? Most Korean suppliers on buyKOREA quote on request. priceOnRequest: true marks them; use onlyWithPrice to keep priced products only.

Are phone numbers and e-mails included? buyKOREA shows direct contacts only to signed-in buyers, so they are not in structured fields. Many suppliers list a website, and some put contact details in their public company description.

How many results can I get? buyKOREA serves up to 10,000 results per keyword. Use several narrower keywords for more.

Company search returns unrelated companies. buyKOREA's company search matches any of a supplier's products loosely. For tight matches use products mode with uniqueSuppliers: true.

Which proxy should I use? The default Apify datacenter proxy works. No residential proxy is needed.

Example inputs for common jobs

Supplier lead list (one row per company, only established firms with a website):

{
    "searchTerms": ["cosmetics", "skin care"],
    "searchType": "companies",
    "maxResultsPerSearch": 200,
    "onlyWithWebsite": true,
    "minYearsInBusiness": 5
}

Products with public prices and small MOQs:

{
    "searchTerms": ["led lighting"],
    "productType": "commercial",
    "onlyWithPrice": true,
    "maxMoq": 100,
    "sort": "lowPrice",
    "maxResultsPerSearch": 100
}

Raw materials and parts, one product per supplier:

{
    "searchTerms": ["centella asiatica extract", "hyaluronic acid"],
    "productType": "materials",
    "uniqueSuppliers": true
}

One supplier's profile from its storefront URL:

{ "searchTerms": ["https://buykorea.org/seller-home/2248110157"] }

How to use

1. Open the actor and type one or more product keywords (English) into Keywords.
2. Pick Products + supplier (default) or Companies (supplier leads).
3. Set Max results per search (start with 20) and any filters.
4. Click Start. Download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read them through the API.

Input

Field	What it does
searchTerms	Keywords, buyKOREA search URLs (?keyword=) or seller-home URLs. Default ["cosmetics"].
searchType	products (default) or companies.
maxResultsPerSearch	Rows per keyword, default 50, 0 = all buyKOREA serves (max 10,000 per keyword).
scrapeProfiles	Read each supplier's "Our Company" page once (default true). Off = faster, search data only.
productType	commercial (default), materials, services, all.
sort	newest (default), popularity, lowPrice, highPrice, AtoZ, ZtoA.
uniqueSuppliers	One product per supplier.
onlyWithPrice, maxPrice, maxMoq, halalOnly	Product filters.
onlyWithWebsite, minYearsInBusiness	Supplier filters (read profiles).

Filtered-out rows are never charged. Bad inputs (non-buyKOREA URLs, product pages) are listed in the RUN_SUMMARY record and cost nothing.

Output example

One product row from the default run (long text shortened here):

{
    "searchTerm": "cosmetics",
    "position": 3,
    "rowType": "product",
    "productId": "3790021",
    "productName": "Malgledam Centella Asiatica Extract 1L",
    "productUrl": "https://buykorea.org/ec/prd/selectGoodsDetail.do?goodsSn=3790021",
    "productType": "Commercial",
    "category": "Essences & Serums",
    "categoryCode": "003001005001",
    "hsCode": "330499",
    "keywords": ["Centella Asiatica Extract", "Cica", "Soothing Care", "Skin Conditioning", "Hydrating"],
    "currency": "USD",
    "priceMin": 8.34,
    "priceMax": 10.01,
    "priceTiers": [
        { "maxQuantity": 999, "price": 10.01, "unit": "pcs" },
        { "maxQuantity": 10000, "price": 8.34, "unit": "pcs" }
    ],
    "priceOnRequest": false,
    "moq": 50,
    "moqUnit": "Pieces",
    "halalCertified": false,
    "listedAt": "2026-10-16T14:56:13+09:00",
    "supplierId": "BK_2248110157",
    "supplierName": "THEAREUM INC",
    "supplierNameKorean": "주식회사 더아름",
    "supplierUrl": "https://buykorea.org/seller-home/2248110157",
    "website": "https://www.theareum.co.kr/default/",
    "businessType": "Manufacturer&Distributor",
    "mainProductCategories": [
        "[Commercial] Beauty > Skin Care > Skin & Toner > Skin & Toner",
        "[Commercial] Beauty > Skin Care > Essences & Serums > Essences & Serums"
    ],
    "address": "THEAREUM INC 21-10 Gogol-gil 83beon-gil, Deogyang-gu, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do 10265",
    "country": "REPUBLIC OF KOREA",
    "yearEstablished": 2008,
    "companyDescription": "The Areum Co., Ltd. is a specialized company engaged in the research, development, manufacturing, and distribution of cosmetic ingredients...",
    "profileScraped": true,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-29T17:36:41.000Z"
}

Company rows (searchType: "companies") carry the same supplier fields plus productCount, up to 25 productNames / productIds, hsCodes and registeredAt; product fields are null.

Integrations

Results land in an Apify dataset: export to CSV / Excel / JSON, call the actor from the Apify API or Python / JavaScript clients, or connect it to Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, Airtable and webhooks. AI agents can call it through the Apify MCP server: give it keywords, get structured Korean supplier data back.

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