ABOUT KORETAIL
Official data only, exactly as published
KORETAIL combines Korea and Retail.
01 · WHAT
What is KORETAIL?
KORETAIL brings public official data and clearly labelled reference data about Seoul’s main shopping areas and Incheon Airport into one view. Source values and KORETAIL-calculated comparisons are identified separately; historical-baseline estimates are separately labelled.
02 · WHO
Who is it for?
For visitors deciding where and when to go in Seoul, for travellers checking Incheon's departure flow before they leave, and for people running a shop in Myeongdong, Hongdae, Seongsu or Itaewon who need to decide today's preparation.
03 · SEOUL
What do you see for Seoul?
For Myeongdong, Hongdae, Seongsu and Itaewon, see current crowd conditions and the official estimated population range, the busiest hour ahead in Seoul’s official forecast, and weather implications. Nearby events are shown when their official dates include today or start later.
04 · AIRPORT
What do you see for the airport?
Incheon's official departure-hall passenger forecast and peak hour, the number of physical departing flights with the busiest gates, and the current wait time and queue size at each departure checkpoint. All terminals, T1 and T2 can be viewed separately. Forecast use of Incheon departure halls · no nationality breakdown. The current public passenger-forecast API has no separate transfer forecast. This is not a total of departing passengers including transfers. The arithmetic sum of the two forecasts is not a deduplicated total of departing passengers.
05 · DATA
Which data do you use?
Seoul real-time city data, Seoul's short-stay foreign living population, Seoul's commercial-district sales estimates, KMA short-term weather forecasts, KTO TourAPI events, and Incheon Airport's flight, departure-hall congestion and passenger forecast datasets. All are public official sources.
06 · KINDS
How do live, forecast and past differ?
"Live" is something just observed, "official forecast" is what Seoul or Incheon Airport published about the future, and "past record" is settled and will not change. These three are never merged into one number.
07 · TIME
What does "as of" mean?
It is the moment that value was actually observed or published. Different datasets update on different cycles, so not every number on screen shares one timestamp — which is why each item carries its own. All times are Korea Standard Time.
08 · LIMITS
What should you keep in mind?
These numbers are not sales or visitor counts. The departure-hall forecast is not a count of foreign visitors, and flights concentrating at a gate does not mean the departure hall is crowded. When a source publishes late, this screen is late too — and in that case we show "unavailable" instead of inventing a value.