About WorldPrice
A small editorial product about what things actually cost across the world.
Most price comparison sites are search forms over crowdsourced averages. WorldPrice is the opposite — a hand-edited reference book on the global price of everyday life, with the methodology in plain sight.
What we cover
Roughly 53 items across 25 countries — about 1,200 price cells in total. The catalogue leans toward Asia where Numbeo and Expatistan are weakest: full Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, plus the major Western anchors (US, UK, France, Germany) for benchmarking.
The items are deliberately mundane — a Big Mac, a flat white, a Seoul subway ride, an iPhone 15, a litre of milk, a kilo of rice, a haircut. The kind of thing you actually pay for, not the kind of thing that shows up in a CPI report.
For Big Macs we go deeper. We carry The Economist's 25-year history so you can see how purchasing power across countries has drifted since 2000.
How we collect
Three layers. First, manual collection — somebody actually walks into a Lotteria, takes a photo of the menu board, and types the number in. That is the only way to get correct convenience-store and transit prices.
Second, official APIs — exchange rates from exchangerate-api.com, Apple product pricing from apple.com per-region, transit fares from agency PDFs. Anything an organisation publishes in machine-readable form.
Third, careful scraping with attribution — Numbeo, OECD, Eurostat, The Economist Big Mac Index. Every row carries a source URL so you can verify it.
Who builds it
Jeon Yeong-bin (전영빈) — editor and developer, based in Seoul. WorldPrice is part of InteliView, the same lab behind several other editorial-data products.
No outside funding, no investors, no growth team. The point of the project is to be small and accurate rather than fast and large.
Newsletter
A monthly note on what changed in the dataset, which prices moved most, and what the next country added will be. Coming soon — not collecting addresses yet.
Press & contact
Tips, corrections, partnership inquiries, press: info@inteliview.kr