Article III (1) (c) of the Antarctic Treaty calls on Parties to exchange and make freely available scientific observations and results from Antarctica. In support of this, and within certain limitations (defined in the KPDC Data Policy) KPDC data sets are available for use by bona fide non-commercial scientific or student projects.

The KPDC is a virtual data centre providing a gateway to the Korean distributed data holdings. Requests for the data sets can be made either via the KPDC Manager or directly via the relevant Scientist or Data Manager.