The repository contains public line list and summaries of the COVID-19 outbreak in South Korea from official sources (the Korean Centers for Disease Control, the websites of the city governments of Seoul, Busan, Daegu, Gwangju, and Ulsan, and the website of Gyeonggi Province government) translated and transcribed by Sang Woo Park. The data are available in excel file and into Google Sheets. The data contains detailed information about each case including dates of onset, dates of hospitalization, dates of recovery or death, dates of discharge, location, contacts information, demographic information, and other notes in a line list format. The data also include aggregated information about testing, total cases, and deaths at state level, by geographic region, by community and by age-group and source files in pdf format.