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What Encar is, why it is only in Korean, and what actually happens between a listing in Seoul and a car on your forecourt. Written from the listing data rather than from other people's blog posts.
What is Encar?
Encar is South Korea's largest used-car marketplace, and for most of the world it is the window onto the Korean used-car market. Here is what it actually is, and what makes its inventory different from a European or American one.
Encar in English
Encar has no English edition, and running it through a browser translator produces something worse than useless: confidently wrong prices and model names. Here is what breaks, and what to do instead.
How to import a car from South Korea
The mechanics are well-trodden and the margins are real, but the sequence matters and most of the cost sits outside the listing price. This is the shape of it, honestly — including the parts that are not our business to quote on.
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What the Encar catalogue holds at this moment: {total} live listings across {brands} brands. Every figure on these pages came back from the same API you can call yourself.
Three endpoints, one header, JSON out. Everything below is the complete reference — there is no second, paid tier of documentation.
Not logos. Three live businesses importing Korean cars into three different markets, each serving its public inventory from these endpoints.