Check any Korean vehicle's insurance-recorded repairs, accidents, ownership changes, and leasing history through a single API call — powered by the Carhistory Korea insurance database.
1 Source
Database
Carhistory Korea Insurance
5–15 Min
Turnaround
Fully automated lookup
South Korea
Market Coverage
All brands, domestic & imported
PDF Report
Delivery Format
Stream or base64 file
The vehicle, its registration plate, and the date the record was pulled from the issuing authority.
Eight headline checks against the insurance record — total loss, theft, flood damage, special use, damage to this vehicle and to third parties, owner changes and plate changes.
Manufacturer, model year, displacement, fuel and classification, alongside twenty-one advanced safety systems each marked fitted or not fitted.
Whether the vehicle was ever registered as a hire car, a taxi or other commercial vehicle, or for government use.
Every transfer recorded against the vehicle, with the date, the plate carried at the time and the registration class.
Claims severe enough to change the vehicle's status — a total loss write-off, a theft, or flood damage. Any would normally be disclosed at sale.
Repairs paid under the owner's own policy and repairs paid to a third party, with the sums the insurer settled on each.
Every odometer reading reported by insurers and dealers, with the date recorded and the source that supplied it.
Every section comes from a Korean used-car history report — a 2019 Audi Q7 45 TFSI quattro with one owner change and 29,403 km.
The vehicle, its registration plate, and the date the record was pulled from the issuing authority.
Eight headline checks against the insurance record — total loss, theft, flood damage, special use, damage to this vehicle and to third parties, owner changes and plate changes.
No claims on recordeight checksManufacturer, model year, displacement, fuel and classification, alongside twenty-one advanced safety systems each marked fitted or not fitted.
18 of 21 systems fittedspecs + safety equipmentWhether the vehicle was ever registered as a hire car, a taxi or other commercial vehicle, or for government use.
Private use onlythree checksEvery transfer recorded against the vehicle, with the date, the plate carried at the time and the registration class.
1 owner changetransfer tableClaims severe enough to change the vehicle's status — a total loss write-off, a theft, or flood damage. Any would normally be disclosed at sale.
None recordedthree checksRepairs paid under the owner's own policy and repairs paid to a third party, with the sums the insurer settled on each.
No claim historyclaim recordEvery odometer reading reported by insurers and dealers, with the date recorded and the source that supplied it.
29,403 km · risingstitchedThe service returns a finished report file. Here's the real request-to-file pipeline, and what's typically inside the report.
1. Order
POST /api/vehicle-reports/request
Send the VIN and service key. We create a job and return a shortReportId with status "pending".
2. Lookup
Automated database lookup
Your request runs against the Korean insurance databases — typically finished in 5–15 minutes.
3. Delivery
Report is finalized
Once the lookup completes, the finished report file is attached to your job and its status flips to "ready".
4. Retrieve
GET /:shortReportId/file
Pull the finished report as a raw PDF stream, or add ?format=base64 to get it as JSON.
Illustrative — the exact fields present depend on the vehicle and what the insurance database has on file. Reports arrive as a PDF file.
South Korea — All Brands
Typically includes
One database, one service — available through the same API key you use for every other market.
Insurance-database history check for Korean vehicles: recorded repairs, accidents, ownership changes, and leasing history.
Order the report with a single POST request and poll for status. The finished report file is retrieved as a base64-encoded string or a raw binary stream ready to be integrated into your application.
# 1. Place a vehicle report order
curl -X POST 'https://api.globalvin.co/api/vehicle-reports/request' \
-H 'x-api-key: your_supplier_key_here' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"vin": "KMHXX00XXXX000000", "service": "carhistory_korea", "lang": "EN"}'
# Response:
# {
# "success": true,
# "data": {
# "vin": "KMHXX00XXXX000000",
# "service": "carhistory_korea",
# "shortReportId": "GV-3F81A2",
# "status": "pending"
# }
# }
# 2. Poll until the report is ready
curl 'https://api.globalvin.co/api/vehicle-reports/GV-3F81A2' \
-H 'x-api-key: your_supplier_key_here'
# 3. Retrieve the finished file
curl 'https://api.globalvin.co/api/vehicle-reports/GV-3F81A2/file?format=base64' \
-H 'x-api-key: your_supplier_key_here'
# Response:
# {
# "fileBase64": "JVBERi0xLjQKJ...",
# "fileFormat": "pdf"
# }Businesses that need a documented Korean insurance history before money changes hands.
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