Published October 20, 2026 | Version 20261018
Dataset Open

35k South Korean Automotive Companies from Official Registry

Authors/Creators

  • 1. companies.directory

Description

35k South Korean Automotive Companies from Official Registry

35,178 South Korean Automotive companies — one slice of the South Korea company universe.

Industry slice — the companies.directory industry classification Automotive (83 taxonomy categories, e.g. auto_body_shop, auto_broker, auto_company, auto_customization).

Part of the companies.directory database of 300M+ companies worldwide.
This snapshot is refreshed quarterly (matching how often the
underlying register changes); the companies.directory app & API are refreshed
monthly — usually fresher than this file.
Records35,178
CountrySouth Korea (KR)
FormatCSV, UTF-8, gzip-compressed
Columns12 (basic fields)
Snapshot2026-10-18
Next snapshot2027-01-01 (quarterly)

Links

  • Browse on companies.directory — https://companies.directory/south-korea/automotive
  • API documentation — https://companies.directory/docs
  • South Korea — all industries — https://companies.directory/south-korea (country dataset on this publisher page)

    • Files

  • kr-automotive-companies.csv.gz — 35,178 rows, 1.3 MB

    • Columns

    ColumnDescription
    row_keyStable identifier of the record in the companies.directory collection.
    nameCompany / establishment name as classified.
    countryISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.
    cityCity / locality.
    regionRegion / state / province.
    zipPostal code.
    websiteWebsite, where classified.
    domainRegistered domain of the website.
    facebookFacebook page, where classified.
    instagramInstagram handle, where classified.
    twitterTwitter / X handle, where classified.
    sourceOrigin dataset inside the companies.directory collection.

    More fields on companies.directory

    This file carries the basic fields only. The full records on

    companies.directory additionally have — refreshed monthly, often

    fresher than this snapshot:

  • standardized industry labels (human-readable, mapped across sources) and

    • the complete industry taxonomy behind each slice,

  • standardized English legal form and status (e.g. GmbH / Osaühing

    • → "Private limited liability company"),

  • contact details (email, phone) and full street addresses where known,
  • enrichment: officers & owners, revenue and employee estimates, opening

    • hours, ratings and more.

    Browse https://companies.directory or use the API (docs).

    Provenance / sources

    Records are classified by companies.directory from open location datasets

    (Overture Maps via BrightQuery, Foursquare, OpenStreetMap POIs) and, where

    available, official registers. Names, categories, cities and online presence

    come from those sources; contact details and street addresses are withheld

    from this snapshot and live on companies.directory.

    Origin datasetRecords
    foursquare1,553,281
    overture480,674

    What you can build

    Company search and lookups · KYC / KYB & onboarding · sales and lead

    enrichment · market and industry research · risk and credit signals ·

    entity-resolution and deduplication · academic and economic research.

    Go beyond a single country

    This file is one slice of the companies.directory global company database.

  • 300M+ companies in one place. Every country we cover, normalized to one

    • schema — not 50 incompatible register exports.

  • API access. Query, filter and enrich programmatically over the full

    • database (name, registration number, country, city, industry, status and

    more). Start at https://companies.directory/docs.

  • Additional fields not in this file. Where a source publishes them:

    • normalized registration numbers, trade names, standardized legal form and

    status, industry codes (ISIC Rev. 5), officers & directors, revenue,

    employee counts, geocoding, websites, emails and phones — see

    companies.directory.

  • Bulk download. The complete multi-country dataset is available as a

    • single bulk download.

  • Dedicated infrastructure. A hosted, indexed PostgreSQL deployment with

    • sub-second search across hundreds of millions of rows.

    Commercial use, volume licensing and custom extracts: luka@companies.directory.

    Update schedule

  • This platform snapshot — refreshed quarterly, matching

    • how often the underlying register changes. Generated 2026-10-20; next

    snapshot 2027-01-01.

  • companies.directory (app & API) — refreshed monthly, usually

    • fresher than this file: https://companies.directory/south-korea/automotive

    Citation

    @misc{companies_directory_kr_automotive_20261018,
  title  = {35k South Korean Automotive Companies from Official Registry},
  author = {companies.directory},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {Snapshot of the companies.directory database},
  url    = {https://companies.directory/south-korea/automotive}
}

    License & attribution

    The processed, standardized compilation is published by

    companies.directory under CC BY 4.0; the upstream sources keep their own licenses.

    These attributions and licenses must be preserved unchanged in any further use or redistribution of this data:

    Data attribution:

  • Overture Maps Foundation — open location data (overturemaps.org), licensed under the Apache License 2.0.
  • Foursquare — place data (foursquare.com), licensed under the Apache License 2.0.
  • OpenStreetMap — map & POI data (openstreetmap.org), licensed under the ODbL.

    • Questions or commercial licensing: luka@companies.directory

    Notes

    Automated quarterly snapshot. Release 20261018. Browse & API: https://companies.directory/south-korea/automotive

    Files

    Files (1.4 MB)

    Name Size
    md5:49641baf26901e698f3a735f9062aafd
    		1.4 MB Download

    Additional details

    Related works

    Is documented by
    https://companies.directory/docs (URL)
    Is supplement to
    https://companies.directory/south-korea/automotive (URL)