Korea Testing & Research Institute


The Korea Testing & Research Institute, abbreviated as KTR, is a testing and certification institute in South Korea which performs integrate testing, certification, and technical consulting for all fields of the industry.
The Institute is known as an international recognized testing body, a national recognized inspection institute for certifying ISO/IEC 17020, an international product recognition body, and a national certification body by International Commission on the Rules for the Approval of Electrical Equipment.
In addition, KTR performs not only national certifications such as KC and KS, but also the international certification works such as CE, GOST-R, EAC, JIS, IECEE-CB, FCC, NSF, PSE, and Energy Star which are issued by the abroad main exporting countries, for example Europe, Russia, Japan, and the USA, through construction of business partnership with 37 foreign countries and 170 foreign institutes. Based on this, KTR performs Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals of Europe, China, Japan, etc. Moreover, KTR does supportive business for enterprises such as KOLAS/KAS officially recognized training, enterprise product development, failure cause analysis, associate business of industry, academy, and research, etc.
As Korea’s largest testing & certification complex established in Gwacheon, KTR implements differentiated testing & certification procedures for the various industrial sectors with its specialized know-how. The seven industrial research institutions of KTR also provide comprehensive and systematic testing & certification services.

Purpose of Foundation

KTR is established to effectively perform testing, research, and certification as well as technical development for the chemical & environment, bio & nanotechnology, component & material, information & communications, and high-technology convergence.
To provide good quality of testing and certification service to companies through the conformity assessment such as testing analysis, inspection, certification, assessment, evaluation, type examination, and calibration, the technology & research development, standardization business, actions to technical barriers, diagnosis & inspection & assessment for factor of technology & administration, assessment works, conformity assessment support for green products and green technology, support for technical innovation of national industry, provide of technical information, supportive business for educational training and advertisement, international cooperation program including MOU, and to enhance Korean testing and certification bodies’ international competitiveness, KTR is combined with EMC Research Institute on July, 2010, and then enlarged KTR is launched.
  1. National Standard Regulation Article of Korea

    Location and branch

KTR comprises offices in 24 Korean major cities as geographical areas and abroad branches:

Headquarter

KTR is mainly organized by 8 divisions, 7 institutes, 60 teams and 7 foreign offices: