Joowon Law · Insights
Clear notes for companies entering Korea and overseas Koreans managing matters here. Read the context, then decide the next move.
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A foreign app, game, or online platform can serve Korean users without any office in Korea. Korean regulators, however, increasingly require large overseas services to appoint a domestic…
Foreign brands often enter Korea through a local distributor and later want to change course. They may want to appoint a new distributor, open a Korean subsidiary, or…
For foreign companies operating in Korea, one of the most damaging events is a key employee resigning and joining a competitor, or starting one, with the company’s customer…
When a Korean customer stops paying invoices, foreign companies often face an unfamiliar choice of tools. A Korean lawyer may suggest a certified demand letter, a court payment…
A Korean complaint can arrive at a foreign company in several ways: through a Korean branch, through its home country’s central authority under the Hague Service Convention, or…
For a foreign parent company, discovering that the representative director of its Korean subsidiary, or the Korean representative of its branch, has been diverting money is one of…
Influencers on Instagram, YouTube, Naver Blog, and TikTok are central to how foreign brands launch in Korea, especially in beauty, food, fashion, and consumer electronics. Korea regulates this…
When a harassment complaint is filed at a Korean subsidiary, many foreign companies reach for the global playbook: escalate to headquarters HR, bring in an investigator, and apply…
Since January 2022, Korea’s Serious Accidents Punishment Act (“SAPA”) has made senior executives personally and criminally liable when a worker dies or is seriously injured because safety systems…
For a foreign creditor, getting an enforceable title in Korea is often the easy part. The harder part is finding something to enforce against, because debtors who expect…
