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Incheon Data Portal

Incheon Metropolitan City's open-data portal consolidates city-generated public datasets and statistics in one place. Originally launched in 2020, it was rebuilt under a roughly ₩4.15 billion 'Incheon Data Hub' project and relaunched in January 2024 with new storage infrastructure, a big-data platform and citizen data-request tools. Still active, hosting a 2025 public-data competition.

Live 📅 since 2020 ✔ Editor-reviewed

✔ Reviewed by the 1001 Smart Cities editorial desk · 🔎 Last verified

📡 Data & IoTOpen data

🎓 Lesson

A years-old "open data portal" can mean very different things depending on the era — Incheon's original 2020 portal offered mostly static statistics with no real-time updates; the 2023–2024 rebuild was explicitly framed as a shift toward raw, analysis-ready data for universities and researchers.

Evidence📰 Media
Scale🏙️ City-wide
Cost≈₩4.15 billion (≈$3.1M) for the 2023–2024 data-hub rebuild
FundingIncheon Metropolitan City budget

Sources

↗ Incheon Metropolitan City — Data PortalOperator's own site.
↗ Incheon In — Incheon Data Hub project budgetMaster plan and 2023–2024 build-out cost (₩4.15bn).
↗ Bizwnews — portal relaunch, January 2024Infrastructure completed Dec 2023, relaunched Jan 2024, promo event Apr–May 2024.
↗ MediaIC — portal naming contest, Oct 2023Rebuild context ahead of relaunch.
📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Incheon Data Portal” — Incheon, South Korea. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/incheon-data-portal/ (last verified 2026-07-27). Data: CC BY 4.0.

The underlying data is free to reuse with attribution — see the open data page.

🔗 Related projects

🇨🇳 Shanghai Public Data Open Platform & SODA Contest · Shanghai Both portals publish datasets with no clear open license — Incheon's terms are undocumented, Shanghai's platform has none stated at all. 🇰🇷 IFEZ Smart City Integrated Operations Center · Incheon Another verified project from Incheon. 🇰🇷 Incheon Smart Remote Water Metering & Leak Detection · Incheon Another verified project from Incheon. 🇰🇷 Songdo International Business District · Incheon Another verified project from Incheon.

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