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Uses a passport number, nationality, and date of birth to check with the Ministry of Justice whether a foreign national is currently staying in Korea and when their stay expires.
  • This is a stay status lookup, not an ID check. So MATCH in this API means “currently staying in Korea”, not “the ID is genuine” as in the other authenticity checks.
  • Once the source answers, the call is billed whatever the verdict. Calls that do not produce a verdict return 4xx or 5xx and are not billed.
Values can be added to verdict and verdictReason. Reading verdicts

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Billing

The billing unit is response, and each call has a count of 1. MISMATCH is also billed.

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Specification

GC-KOR-FPS specification

Check the endpoint, request and response fields with examples, and errors.
For errors that apply to all APIs, see Error Codes.