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How to get Korean company data: directors, shareholders & financials
Every Korean listed company files with the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) through OpenDART. Here's how to pull a company's directors, major shareholders and full IFRS financial statements as clean JSON — for due diligence, KYC and supply-chain verification.
What is OpenDART?
OpenDART is the open-data API of Korea's Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) — the public gateway to the DART corporate-disclosure system. Each company has an 8-digit DART corp code, and listed firms also carry a 6-digit KRX stock code (e.g. 005930 for Samsung Electronics, 000660 for SK hynix). It's free, authoritative and allows 20,000 calls a day.
What data can you get?
- Identity — English & Korean company name, CEO, address, business registration number, KSIC industry and incorporation date.
- Directors & executives — name, position (Korean → English), registered/unregistered status, exact shares held, share change and ownership ratio.
- Major shareholders — the largest shareholders with their stake percentage; 10%+ holders flagged.
- Financials — full IFRS statements: balance sheet + income statement, 3-year comparison, both consolidated (CFS) and separate (OFS), in KRW.
The easy way (by stock code, corp code or name)
The DART portal is Korean-language and built for manual, one-at-a-time lookup. Instead, the Korean Company Data scraper on Apify takes a stock code, DART corp code or company name and returns structured OpenDART data — no Korean required, exportable to JSON / CSV / Excel.
- Paste 6-digit stock codes (e.g. 005930 for Samsung) — fastest for listed firms; or
- Paste exact 8-digit DART corp codes for guaranteed matches; or
- Type company names (Korean or English) — resolved from a 118K-company index; or
- Filter by KSIC industry sector to discover companies in a sector.
Names and addresses are Romanized (Revised Romanization), and every money figure is given three ways: raw number, compact (₩566.94T) and exact (₩566,942,110,000,000).
Use cases: KYC & supplier onboarding, M&A / investment screening, semiconductor & electronics supply-chain mapping, and lead enrichment on Korean companies.
Open the Korean Company Data scraper →Is it legal?
It reads public statutory disclosure data published by Korea's FSS through the official OpenDART API. Verify your use complies with OpenDART's terms and Korea's data-protection law (PIPA).