SMS API for South Korea: bulk SMS to +82 numbers
South Korea
Calling code +82
- Per SMS segment
- $0.00277
- Messages for $100
- 36,101
- Local language
- Korean
- Encoding
- Unicode (UCS-2)
What a bulk SMS send to South Korea costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.00277 | $0.00554 |
| 1,000 | $2.77 | $5.54 |
| 10,000 | $27.70 | $55.40 |
| 100,000 | $277.00 | $554.00 |
Number format in South Korea
Mobile numbers in South Korea have 10 digits after +82. Locally they are written with a leading 0 (010-2000-0000); in the API that 0 is dropped, so the same number goes in the to field as +82 10 2000 0000.
Alphabet and segments
Text in Hangul is always Unicode, so a message to South Korea written in Korean carries 70 characters in one segment and 67 in each part of a longer one. Codes and alerts written in English or plain Latin letters fit 160 characters, which halves the cost of a long notice.
Time zone and timing
South Korea keeps UTC+9 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Seoul is always 00:00 UTC. send_at takes UTC or any ISO 8601 offset, and the console scheduler converts from your own time zone.
Send to South Korea with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (KR) and the price. A delivered or failed event follows on your webhook, and a failed message is refunded.
For a list, send the same text to up to 10,000 numbers with POST /v1/batches, or a personal text per number in messages.
curl https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $BULKSMSAPI_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"to": "+821020000000", "text": "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes."}'const res = await fetch("https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages", {
method: "POST",
headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.BULKSMSAPI_KEY}`, "Content-Type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({ to: "+821020000000", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.00277", country: "KR"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+821020000000", "text": "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes."}).encode(),
headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + os.environ["BULKSMSAPI_KEY"], "Content-Type": "application/json", "User-Agent": "northwind-app/1.0"},
method="POST",
)
with urllib.request.urlopen(req) as res:
print(json.load(res)["price"]) # "0.00277"What developers send to South Korea
Banking alerts
Banks in Seoul send SMS notifications for account transactions or fraud detection alerts.
Delivery updates
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Appointment reminders
Clinics in Incheon send reminders for medical appointments or prescription pickups.
Event notifications
Universities in Daegu alert students about exam schedules or campus events.
More countries in East Asia
SMS to South Korea: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to South Korea?
How many SMS to South Korea does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write South Korea numbers for the API?
Should messages include English translations?
Are there peak times for sending messages?
Start sending to South Korea
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to South Korea at $0.00277 per segment, from the console or with one API call.