Korean Judicial Precedents from the National Law Information Center, June 2023

A full collection of judicial precedent data provided by the Korean Ministry of Government Legislation's National Law Information Center as of June 2023. The dataset is maintained by joonhok-exo-ai and was last updated on the platform in November 2025. It includes approximately 200 duplicate records with identical case numbers but different serial identifiers, as noted by the creator.

Use Cases

• Training legal question-answering models based on the collection of judicial precedents.
• Analyzing trends in Korean court rulings based on the full set of case data.
• Developing tools for legal information retrieval based on case numbers and other metadata fields.
• Identifying and deduplicating legal records based on the described duplicate case number issue.

Strengths

• Contains the full set of precedent data from an official government source (National Law Information Center) as of a specific date (June 2023).
• The creator acknowledges a known data quality issue (approximately 200 duplicate records) and provides a reason for it.
• The dataset page indicates plans for regular updates with new precedents.

Limitations

• The exact number of rows, columns, and file formats are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data freshness is uncertain as the base snapshot is from June 2023, though updates are planned.

Provenance

Source

Korean Ministry of Government Legislation National Law Information Center API

Collection Method

Aggregated via the center's public API.

Time Range

Coverage up to June 2023.

Freshness

Last updated on the platform 2025-11-18; base data snapshot is from June 2023.

Geography

South Korea