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Country Surveillance Brief | National infectious disease profile

South Korea KR

South Korea

South Korea page consolidates infectious disease surveillance records from Korea KDCA EID. It combines source metadata, time-series charts, and downloadable machine-readable datasets.

Coverage window
2005-01-01 → 2026-06-01
Tracked diseases
64
Open report archive

Country Brief

How to interpret this surveillance profile.

Sources: Korea KDCA EID
Surveillance system

The dataset is built from configured official feeds for South Korea; current primary sources include Korea KDCA EID.

Current interpretation

Coverage currently spans 2005-01-01 to 2026-06-01 across 64 tracked diseases.

Reporting cadence

Source reporting frequency is inferred as MONTHLY; charts use weekly-equivalent normalization where applicable.

Data limitations

Counts reflect reported surveillance records and may be affected by case definitions, reporting lag, source cadence, and missing population denominators.

Snapshot | Core surveillance indicators for this country.

Total Cases
2.8M
Current snapshot
Diseases Tracked
64
Current snapshot
Reports
0
Current snapshot

Figure 1 | Epidemic curve for the top 10 diseases (weekly-equivalent normalized cases).

Figure 2 | Disease-month heatmap across the full coverage period (log-scaled case intensity).

Table 1 | Disease burden comparison with reported totals and latest observations.

Dataset Archive

Supplementary Data | Country surveillance dataset

Machine-readable country surveillance dataset (JSON/CSV) with source metadata.

Rows
16,512
Data Version
2026-06-20
Coverage
2005-01-01 → 2026-06-01
Included metadata
Source links, scope, cadence

Source Register

Official sources and update cadences used to construct the downloadable dataset.

KR
Korea KDCA EIDmonthlyopen_api_or_portal_download

Korea KDCA notifiable infectious disease OpenAPI or portal/KOSIS downloads aggregated to national monthly notification counts.

Official source
Suggested presentation pattern: cite the data version and coverage window when exporting charts or tables for publication.