Practical Legal Guides
Guides
What the law actually requires, what to prepare, and where people go wrong — written for foreigners dealing with Korean law.
Immigration
Korea Digital Nomad Visa (F-1-D): Requirements, Income Tiers and How to Apply (2026)
F-1-D income tiers, overseas business owners, the one-year industry requirement and changing status inside Korea, explained by a Korean attorney.
F-1-D One Year in the Same Industry: Proving It When Your Business Is New or Your Career Has Changed
How the one-year industry requirement is described in official F-1-D guidance, the four situations that cause trouble, and the evidence that connects your past work to what you will do in Korea.
Property
How to Check Family-Owned Land in Korea from Abroad
A practical sequence for finding Korean parcels, checking title and shares, and arranging authority to request records while overseas.
Korean Property Tax Notices While Living Overseas
How to organise Korean property-tax notices, identify the responsible local authority and check delivery and payment information from abroad.
Appointing a Korean Tax Manager (납세관리인) for Property You Own from Abroad
Why Korean tax law expects a non-resident owner to name a tax manager, what the appointment does to property-tax notices, how it is filed, and how it differs from a power of attorney.
Your Korean Title Still Shows Your Old Resident Registration Number: What Changes After Naturalisation
How the Korean register identifies an owner, what happens to that record when you take another citizenship or move abroad, and what to put in order before a sale or an inheritance.
How to Sell Property in Korea from Abroad: Power of Attorney, Seal Certificates and Non-Resident Tax
Selling Korean property while living overseas: signing through an agent, the seal-certificate route for your nationality, non-resident capital gains tax and withholding, permit zones and sending the proceeds abroad.
Inheritance
Commercial lease
Key Money in Korea (권리금): Is It Refundable, and How Does the Law Protect It?
What “key money” means in Korea, how commercial key money differs from a rental deposit, who pays it to whom, and how the law protects a business tenant’s chance to recover it from the next tenant.
Landlord Blocking Your Key Money in Korea: New Tenant, Refusal and Damages
Your Korean landlord is blocking the sale of your business? What counts as obstruction, the grounds a landlord can rely on, the evidence you need, the damages cap and the three-year limitation period.
Korea’s Commercial Building Lease Protection Act: 10-Year Renewal Right and 5% Rent Cap
Which commercial leases the Act covers, how to demand renewal, the grounds on which a landlord can refuse, the 5% ceiling on rent increases and its limits, and the 2026 management-fee rule.
Commercial Lease in Korea for Foreign Business Owners: What to Check Before You Sign
Before you sign for a shop, restaurant or office in Korea: business registration, protection against a new owner, the fixed date, buying an existing business, and the restoration and trade clauses.
Employment
Asked to Resign in Korea (권고사직): What to Check Before You Sign
What a recommended resignation means under Korean law, what you are owed either way, and how what you sign affects later claims, benefits and immigration.
Korean Separation Agreements: 10 Clauses to Check Before Signing
How the release, reason for leaving, payment, non-compete and confidentiality clauses in a Korean separation agreement work, and what to ask to change before signing.
Severance Pay in Korea: Calculation, Bonuses and Deadlines
How Korean statutory severance is calculated, which bonuses count after the 2026 Supreme Court rulings, the 14-day deadline, 20% interest and payment when you leave Korea.
Unfair Dismissal in Korea: Labor Relations Commission Claims and Deadlines
How to challenge a dismissal in Korea: the three-month deadline, applying to the Labor Relations Commission, what counts as just cause, remedies and appeal deadlines.
Unemployment Benefits in Korea for Foreigners (2026)
Which foreign residents are covered by Korean employment insurance, the 180-day rule, 2026 benefit amounts, how the reason for leaving is judged, and immigration considerations.
Workers' Compensation in Korea: Benefits, Deadlines and Suing Your Employer
How Korea's industrial accident compensation insurance works for employees, including foreign workers: what COMWEL pays, claim and appeal deadlines, and when you can also sue the employer.
Injured at Work in Korea? Suing Your Employer After Workers' Compensation
When an injured worker in Korea can claim damages from the employer on top of workers' compensation: fault, lost earnings, pain and suffering, the 2025 Supreme Court deduction rule and settlements.