# Korean Exchange Prices (Upbit & Bithumb) with Kimchi Premium

> Korean Exchange Prices (Upbit & Bithumb) with Kimchi Premium is a paid API for AI agents from bess-x402.onrender.com, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-29).

Returns real-time KRW prices for a cryptocurrency on Upbit and Bithumb exchanges, including 24h change, high/low, volume, and the kimchi premium versus the global USD price.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://bess-x402.onrender.com/v1/crypto/kr-prices?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-29
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/korean-exchange-prices-upbit-bithumb-with-kimchi-premium-ea1fc759
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_0LD_5n3rxa0Fi_MF7pNzk

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability korean-exchange-prices-upbit-bithumb-with-kimchi-premium-ea1fc759
```

Example prompt: What's Bitcoin trading for in Korean won on Upbit and Bithumb right now, and what's the kimchi premium compared to the global USD price?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need Korea-specific cryptocurrency pricing from Upbit or Bithumb in KRW, especially when you need the kimchi premium calculation versus global USD prices for arbitrage analysis or local market monitoring. Prefer this over generic crypto price APIs when the Korean market premium or local KRW pricing is specifically required.

## Known failure modes

- Unknown or unsupported coin symbol returns an error or empty result
- Exchange API downtime may result in stale or missing data for one or both exchanges
- Network timeout if the upstream Korean exchange APIs are slow to respond
- Missing symbol parameter returns a validation error

## How this service works

Price of a coin in KRW on Upbit and Bithumb with 24h change, high/low and volume, plus the kimchi premium versus the global USD price. Use for Korea arbitrage signals and local pricing.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with the coin's current KRW price on Upbit and Bithumb, 24h percentage change, 24h high and low prices, trading volume on each exchange, and the kimchi premium — the percentage difference between the Korean KRW price (converted to USD) and the global USD reference price.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [],
     "properties": {
      "symbol": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Coin symbol, e.g. BTC"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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