Clinical Research Information Service (CRIS) - Republic of Korea

The Clinical Research Information Service (CRIS) is a non-profit online registration system for clinical trials (researches) being conducted in Korea. It can also be accessed via ICTRP


As well as the main search options, it is also possible to search by topic (condition, intervention type and phase).


Some completed trials have results within the records.


The database is analysed in this publication:


Huh KY, Yu KS, Lim HS, Kim H. Trends of clinical trials from 2017 to 2019 in Korea: an integrated analysis based on the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) and the Clinical Research Information Service (CRIS) registries. Transl Clin Pharmacol 2021; 29(4):186–96. 


The database has 8332 studies (13 April 2023).

Search options

Default operator Phrase searches

Boolean operators No

Phrase searching breast cancer

Nesting No

Truncation No

Field tags Advanced search offers a range of categories and field options to be searched

Hyphens Hyphens are recognised, so search with hyphens and without

Help pages No

Example breast cancer

Saved searches No

Export tagged Excel, XML

Updated 13 April 2023