Gyeonggi Province Publicly Discloses Business Registration Numbers for 14 Types of Public Data Including Funeral Home Status

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Park No-hun] Gyeonggi Province announced on the 14th that it will additionally disclose business registration numbers for 14 types of public data including funeral home status, disability welfare centers, and fertilizer production business status within the province.

With this, the number of corporate data types for which Gyeonggi Province has disclosed business registration numbers has increased from the existing 18 types to a total of 32 types.

Business registration numbers are unique corporate identifiers that have long been subject to confusion as personal information or corporate secrets, making the disclosure status of public data unclear.

The Presidential Committee on the Fourth Industrial Revolution ruled that there are no legal issues with this and previously selected Gyeonggi Province as a leading institution for public data disclosure of business registration numbers.

The province began opening business registration numbers for 6 types of data including expenditure and contract status in 2018, and when the nationwide expansion of business registration number disclosure was decided through the 22nd plenary session of the Fourth Industrial Revolution Committee, it additionally disclosed business registration numbers for 12 types including local currency merchant status.

The 14 types of business registration number data that the province is disclosing for the third time include ▲Techno Valley tenant company status ▲Good workplaces and excellent women-owned enterprises selection status ▲Gwanggyo Business Center tenant company status ▲Gyeonggi rural convergence and fusion industry certified business operator status ▲Book-related business status ▲Freight vehicle transport brokerage business permit business status ▲Fertilizer production business registration status ▲Food waste large-volume emission business facilities status ▲Funeral home status ▲Food resource recycling facility status ▲Knowledge industry center status ▲Facilities subject to disinfection obligations status ▲Disability welfare center operation programs ▲Administrative scrivener office status, etc.

With Gyeonggi Province's disclosure, data matching using business registration numbers has become possible, and various applications are already being implemented in service areas such as Kakao Map that provide location information for local currency merchants.

The number of views and downloads of publicly disclosed business registration number data has also increased by more than 10%.

Through this third disclosure, it is expected that various services will become possible, such as combining restaurant information with certified rural convergence and fusion industry business operator information to create regional food tourism courses.

Jeon Seung-hyeon, director of the Data Policy Division at Gyeonggi Province, stated: "With the disclosure in three phases, the public disclosure of business registration numbers for corporate data being provided through Gyeonggi Data Dream has been completed," and added, "To enhance the usability of corporate data, we will continue to supplement data for which business registration numbers have been disclosed and promote business registration number disclosure for newly disclosed data in the future."

Meanwhile, the disclosed data can be found through the Gyeonggi Provincial Government Public Data Portal Gyeonggi Data Dream (data.gg.go.kr).