Korea, Republic of 53% open

Korea, Republic of is ranked #28 in the 2014 Index
Korea, Republic of's overall Index ranking is up from #33 in 2013

Rank Dataset Breakdown Location (URL) Format Info Prev. (2013) Score
6 Pollutant Emissions
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http://www.airkorea.or.kr/ Excel, ... #33  40% 90%
6 Pollutant Emissions
URL: http://www.airkorea.or.kr/
Format: Excel, XML, HTML

The Korean Ministry Of Environment (MOE) has released the air quailty level of 16 areas nearby the World Cup Stadium on a real-time basis since April 2002. The increasing public interest in air pollution and a clean and safe environment has led to raising the need for air quality information across the country.

The general public have gained access to the urban air pollution data on the website since Dec.2005. The data on the outdoor air quality nationwide has been released since Dec. 28, 2005.

  • Pollutants: PM-10 , O₃, CO , SO₂, NO₂
  • Contents · Overall grasp of the real-time air quality data across the country. · Display of the air quality level in various ways such as satellite images, environmental clocks, and calendars.

4 datasets are provided via open API services: http://bit.ly/1xysEe7


11 Transport Timetables
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http://openapi.tago.go.kr/open... JSON, XML #41  30% 90%
11 Transport Timetables
URL: http://openapi.tago.go.kr/openapi/service
Format: JSON, XML


23 Government Budget
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https://www.digitalbrain.go.kr... Excel #18  70% 70%
23 Government Budget
URL: https://www.digitalbrain.go.kr/kor/view/statis/statis01_01_01.jsp?code=DB0101
Format: Excel

Original source is from http://www.digitalbrain.go.kr/ Specific budget category (budget of each project or governmental programs.) does not exist.


14 Company Register
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http://dart.fss.or.kr/dsap001/... xml, json #16  45% 60%
14 Company Register
URL: http://dart.fss.or.kr/dsap001/guide.do
Format: xml, json

  • Name: Repository of Korea's Corporate Filings
  • Coverage: Company profiles, Changes in Capital, Major Stockholders, Main Businesses , Sales Composition, Summarised balance sheets, summarised income statements, XBRL Financial Statements
  • Terms of use: http://dart.fss.or.kr/jsp/popup/apiTermService.jsp (Freely available only for non profit use, with attribution, share-alike.)

41 National Statistics
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http://kosis.kr/openapi/index/... xls, ... #43  45% 60%
41 National Statistics
URL: http://kosis.kr/openapi/index/index.jsp
Format: xls, csv, xml, sdmx, json

Name: Korea Statistical Information Coverage: Population/Household, Employment/Labor/Wage, Price/Household Income And Expenditure, Health/Society/Welfare, Environment, Agriculture, Forestry And Fishery, Mining And Manufacturing Industry/Energy, Construction/Housing/Land, Transportation/Information And Communication, Wholesale and Retail Trade/Service Industry, National Accounts/Regional Accounts/National Wealth, Finance/Banking/Insurance, Trade/Foreign Exchange/Balance Of Payments


26 Legislation
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http://open.law.go.kr/index.js... XML, ... #46  40% 55%
26 Legislation
URL: http://open.law.go.kr/index.jsp
Format: XML, HTML, HWP

  • Name: Korean laws and policy
  • Coverage: Present and past laws and regulations of the Republic of Korea

53 Election Results
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http://info.nec.go.kr/ n/a #33  45% 45%
53 Election Results
URL: http://info.nec.go.kr/


Name: Election Statistics System

Coverage: Presidential elections and parliamentary elections, and various local elections (elections of heads of local councils and wide area) of the election of statistical data.

About license, it says that only for non profit purpose, datasets can be used without permission, otherwise we have to get permission from government.

[Reviewer comment: couldn't check the data, but if it's online it's public, so corrected that.]

Also, there are 6 open api datasets http://bit.ly/1yLL201 (License: attribution and share alike, but it's not creative commons though.)


46 National Map
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http://www.nsdi.go.kr/use/open... geojson #34  40% 40%
46 National Map
URL: http://www.nsdi.go.kr/use/openapi/ahUseOpenAPIGuide010.do
Format: geojson

National Digital Mapping data provide by ministry of land, transport and maritime affairs. they provide the open api using 'open layer 2' library. License: http://www.nsdi.go.kr/etc/etcUserGuide.do?pageNm=AhEtcUserGuide030 (Not openly licensed.)


16 Government Spending
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n/a n/a #38  0% 10%
16 Government Spending


Only high level data is available, not transaction-level https://www.digitalbrain.go.kr/kor/view/statis/statis02_01_01.jsp?code=DB0102


42 Postcodes / Zipcodes
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n/a n/a #11  70% 10%
42 Postcodes / Zipcodes


The zip code system is managed and maintained by the Government of South Korea. Korea Post is in charge of postal services and financial services by post offices.

Major Business Provide basic postal services of handling and delivering postal matters (General mails and parcels) Provide additional postal services (Registered mails, acceptance of postal matters at the customers' location, sales of local products by mail order, and postal errand service, etc.) Handling postal savings, postal money, order and postal giro Handling postal insurance

The standardized postal codes format is NNN-NNN, where N stands for any single number (0 to 9) and A stands for any single alphabet (A to Z). All the states, districts, cities and localities in South Korea are categorized based on this format with the initial digits generally indicating the state.

open API service http://www.koreapost.go.kr/kpost/sub/subpage.jsp?contId=100301000000 http://bit.ly/1uHfysT

However, the geolocation data is missing. Therefore, the database does not exist.


Contributors

Reviewers

  • Mor Rubinstein
  • 홍영택 (yeongtaek, Hong)

Submitters

  • Young-Je Lim
  • Mor Rubinstein
  • Tryggvi Björgvinsson