Insights & Guides
Expert analysis, tactical guides, and market insights for brands selling in Korea.
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Korean customs won't release cargo until import duties and VAT are paid — before you have a payer. Here's how Kontactic advances those funds and reconciles them to source documents.
Korea sorts every ingestible product into general food or Health Functional Food, and the line is set by ingredients and claims — not format. Here is how to tell which import path yours falls under.
Kontactic screens every SKU against Korean certification and customs rules before it ships — catching KC, import-food, and radio conformity obligations before cargo gets stuck at the border.
Korea's KC mark splits into two separate regimes: product safety under KATS and radio/EMC conformity under the RRA. Here's which tracks your device needs.
KC certification for paint in Korea depends on the specific product and its hazard classification — not all paint sits under the same regime. Here is how to check.
A foreign-invested yuhan-hoesa takes roughly 6–10 weeks to register and requires KRW 100M in declared capital — but the entity is the cheap, fast part of going local in Korea.
A Korean limited company (yuhan-hoesa) has no statutory minimum capital — but foreign-invested status requires KRW 100M, and the real load sits elsewhere.
A localized Korean PDP is a design problem, not a translation problem — and it sits on entity, KC, and channel decisions that decide whether it converts.
LCL shipping to Korea is viable from about 1 CBM, but freight is the small part of your landed cost. KC, Coupang setup, and the Korean PDP decide payback.
KC certification typically runs 4–8 weeks and USD 2,000–6,000 in testing fees — but the certificate is only the first gate before Coupang and Korean PDP conversion.
Rocket Growth accepts one unit per SKU inbound. The real lead time is upstream—entity, KC, IoR, and PDP—not the warehouse dock.
A Korean tax representative typically costs USD 1,000–3,000/year as a standalone service. For Coupang sellers, the real expense sits in IoR and localization.
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