Korea (KOR)

This section defines the supported geocoding datasets, operations, and input and output field information for South Korea.

Supported Geocoding Datasets

The following table lists the supported geocoding dataset(s) with the available geocoding levels for South Korea.

Note: Custom User Dictionaries are not supported.
Geocoding Dataset City Centroid Suburb/Village Centroid Postal Centroid Street Centroid Interpolated Street Address Point-level Address Point of Interest
TomTom South Korean, latinized Korean Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No

Supported Operations

The following operations are supported for Korea:
  • Geocoding—Takes one or more addresses as input and returns latitude/longitude coordinates and other information.
  • Reverse Geocoding—Takes one or more latitude and longitude coordinates as input and returns the address of the location.
  • Interactive Geocoding— Returns potential match candidates as the adddress is typed in.
  • Global Key Lookup—Returns geocode candidates when given a unique key as input. USA MLD and AUS GNAF data only.

Input Fields

The input address may contain some or all of the following address elements.

Parameter Type Description
placeName String Specifies the building name, place name, Point of Interest (POI), company or firm name associated with the input address. Optional.
mainAddress String Single Line Input—If no other address field is populated, then the mainAddress entry will be treated as a single line input. Single line input can consist of multiple input address fields ; these should be entered in the typical address order for the country. For more details, refer to the section "Single Line Input" below.

Street Address—If the post address components (city, postalCode, etc.) are provided separately or in the lastLine field, then the contents of mainAddress will be treated as the street address part and can include company name, house number, building names and street names. Optional.

Street Intersection Input—To enter an intersection, specify the two street names separated by a double ampersand (&&).
lastLine String The last line of the address. Optional. For example:

서울특별시 종로구 사직로3길 23,
                  102동 304호 30174
areaName1 String Not used.
areaName2 String Province, Metropoliton area
areaName3 String District, city or town. Optional.
areaName4 String Not used.
postalCode String Postcode
country String The three-letter ISO 3166-1 Alpha-3 country code. For Korea, the country code is KOR. Required for forward geocoding.

There are two supported address formats for KOR: Land Lot and road name with address number. Either address format can be entered as an input address. Land Lot addressing system that takes a Land Lot number and location information. The Land Lot number can be either a single number or two numbers separated by a hyphen. For example: 202 - 4 SANHO-DONG, MASANHAPPO-GU CHANGWON. The Road Name with address takes a house number, street with location information such as a town and\or postcode. For example: 217 Haeundaehaebyeon-ro, U 1(il)-dong, Haeundae, Busan.

Single Line Input

Instead of entering each address component in separate fields, you can enter the entire address in the mainAddress input field with the address elements ordered as follows:

[address_number][street_info][area]

Where:
  • [address_number] is optional.
  • [street_info] consists of the street name, street type and any pre- or post-directional information (e.g. East, West, etc.). Optional.
  • [area] is the city only, or city plus supporting information, such as state, province, locality. Required.

For best results, put a comma between the street information and the area information.

Custom Options

There are no options specific to Korea.

Output Fields

The following table lists the address fields returned for a candidate located in Korea.

Note: The placeName, addressNumber, unitType and unitValue field values are only returned when a geocoding dataset that supports street address interpolation is installed.
Field Name Description
mainAddressLine The street address which may include company name, house number, building names and street names.
addressLastLine The last line of the address.
placeName The building name, place name, Point of Interest (POI), company or firm name associated with the address.
areaName1 Not used.
areaName2 District
areaName3 City or town
areaName4 Locality
postCode1 Not used.
postCode2 Not used.
country The three-letter ISO 3166-1 Alpha-3 country code. For Korea, the country code is KOR.
addressNumber The address number.
streetName The street or road name.
unitType The unit type such as APT, STE, etc.
unitValue The unit value/number, such as "3B".
customFields LANDLOT_CODE returns the Land lot code for this address.