Korean Public Tender Search makes South Korea's public procurement announcements searchable in English. Every day, government bodies, schools, municipalities, and public institutions across Korea publish bid announcements (입찰공고) to 나라장터, the Korea ON-line E-Procurement System. Those announcements are public, but they are written entirely in Korean — which puts them out of reach for most non-Korean speakers.
When you type an English phrase such as "software maintenance" or "road construction," the site does three things:
Each result shows the announcing institution, the demand institution (the body that actually needs the goods or work), the posting and closing dates, the estimated price in Korean won, and the contract method — for example 일반경쟁 (open competition), 제한경쟁 (limited competition), or 수의계약 (private contract). Tender titles link directly to the official announcement page on 나라장터, where the full specification documents are available.
You can search the last 7, 30, or 90 days. The source API limits any single request to roughly a 30-day range, so longer windows are assembled from several requests behind the scenes. Tenders are time-sensitive, and most have short bidding periods, so the default 30-day window is usually the most useful.
All tender data comes from the 나라장터 입찰공고정보서비스 (Bid Public Information Service) published by the Public Procurement Service of the Republic of Korea via data.go.kr. This site is an independent project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the Public Procurement Service or any Korean government body.
Search results depend on keyword matching and machine translation, so they are a starting point rather than an exhaustive list. Before acting on any tender — and certainly before preparing a bid — confirm the details against the official announcement on 나라장터. Deadlines, eligibility rules, and amounts shown here should never be treated as authoritative.