Entity Setup

Branch, liaison office or subsidiary — FDI registration, capital injection and getting the company actually operating.

Korea Now Fines a Liaison Office That Skips Its 10 February Report

The Korean liaison office status report has been mandatory since 2022 and more than half of the offices required to file it never have. From this year there is a fine attached, and the first exposed filing falls due on 10 February 2027.

1 September 2026 7 min read

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Korea's KRW 100 Million FDI Threshold: What Foreign-Invested Company Status Actually Buys

Foreign-invested company status turns on two numbers — KRW 100 million per investor and 10 percent of the voting shares. Meeting them is easy. Knowing what the status is still worth after the 2019 and 2025 incentive changes is the part that decides how you structure the entry.

21 August 2026 9 min read