Postcodes / Zipcodes 10% open

What data is expected?

A database of postcodes/zipcodes and the corresponding geospatial locations in terms of a latitude and a longitude (or similar co-ordinates in an openly published national co-ordinate system). A database which gives a location in terms of the name of a town or a street without lat/long co-ordinates is not considered acceptable unless the name of the town or street can be further converted to a latitude and longitude by means of other open data (eg an open gazetteer with latitude and longitude attributes).

What data is available

•   Does the data exist? Yes
•   Is data in digital form? Yes
•   Publicly available? No
•   Is the data available for free? No
•   Is the data available online? No (No URL given)
•   Is the data machine readable? No (n/a)
•   Available in bulk? No
•   Openly licensed? No (No URL given)
•   Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? No

Details

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.