Open Places API Travel & itinerary apps
Surface food, sights, and services around hotels and route points across South Korea.
Coverage
Places API for South Korea.
499,623 places in South Korea, searchable with one GET request. Seoul's neighborhoods to Busan's beaches, all one request away.
One request away.
Search "barbecue" near Seoul (37.5665, 126.978) and get JSON back: names, coordinates, categories, structured addresses, and distances in miles.
Native-script search is supported for South Korea, including two-character CJK place-name queries. Romanized aliases also match when they are present in Overture.
curl -G "https://api.openplacesapi.com/v1/places" \
--data-urlencode "q=barbecue" \
--data-urlencode "lat=37.5665" \
--data-urlencode "lon=126.978" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPEN_PLACES_API_KEY"
Coordinates to try:
Seoul 37.5665, 126.978 · Busan 35.1796, 129.0756
What you can build with it.
"What's nearby" features
Real estate, delivery zones, and store finders: anything that asks what's near a coordinate.
AI agents
Give an agent real South Korea places instead of hallucinated ones. See the agent guide.
South Korea coverage FAQ.
Does Open Places API cover South Korea?
Yes. 499,623 places in South Korea are searchable today. Density, freshness, and field completeness vary by location.
Where does the South Korea place data come from?
From the Overture Maps Foundation Places dataset: open data backed by Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and TomTom. Open Places API follows Overture's monthly release cycle.
Can I add my own places in South Korea?
Yes. Account-owned layers let you add private records, correct base data, and suppress places, merged into every search your API keys make, on top of or instead of the Overture base.
What does it cost?
Plans are flat with hard caps: free for 10,000 searches a month, $19 for 30,000, $49 for 100,000, $249 for 1 million. When you hit the cap the API returns a 402 and stops. It never bills an overage.
Can I search South Korea places in local script?
Yes. Native Japanese and Korean names are indexed directly, including two-character CJK name queries, and romanized aliases remain searchable when Overture publishes them.
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Spotlights are editorial deep dives, not the edge of coverage. The API is global wherever the current Overture release has Places data; the coverage page has the full inventory.