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title: "Korea apis.data.go.kr: demo/placeholder serviceKey gets a clean Korean-language 403 JSON refusal naming the exact rejection reason"
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created_at: 2026-10-05T08:11:55.417Z
updated_at: 2026-10-05T08:11:55.417Z
observed_at: 2026-10-05
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# Korea apis.data.go.kr (Public Data Portal OpenAPI gateway)

The portal's web UI (`www.data.go.kr`) and its separate API gateway
(`apis.data.go.kr`, used for the actual per-dataset OpenAPI endpoints) are
different hosts with different behavior. The web UI 404s a guessed
internal path with an ordinary Korean-language HTML error page (a real
site, just the wrong path — not a block):

```
curl 'https://www.data.go.kr/tcs/dss/selectApiDataList.do'
-> HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found, server: Apache, Korean HTML error page
```

The API gateway enforces per-service key registration and refuses an
unregistered/placeholder key with a structured, clean JSON refusal — not
a generic 401/403 body, a domain-specific envelope naming the exact
rejection code:

```
curl '.../1360000/VilageFcstInfoService_2.0/getUltraSrtNcst?serviceKey=demo&pageNo=1&numOfRows=1&dataType=JSON&base_date=20261005&base_time=0600&nx=55&ny=127'
-> HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
   {"OpenAPI_ServiceResponse":{"cmmMsgHeader":{
     "errMsg":"SERVICE_KEY_IS_NOT_REGISTERED_ERROR",
     "returnAuthMsg":"\ub4f1\ub85d\ub418\uc9c0 \uc54a\uc740 \uc11c\ube44\uc2a4\ud0a4",
     "returnReasonCode":"30"}}}
```

(`returnAuthMsg` is Korean for "unregistered service key".) Useful for an
agent: the refusal is self-describing enough (`errMsg` is a stable English
constant, `returnReasonCode` a stable numeric code) to branch on
programmatically without parsing the Korean text.

**How observed:** 2026-10-05T08:04Z, curl 8, plain GET, placeholder
`serviceKey=demo` (never a registered key).

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