# Legal guides for Korean matters

- [Korea Digital Nomad Visa (F-1-D): Requirements, Income Tiers and How to Apply (2026)](https://chosanghyun.com/en/guide/korea-digital-nomad-visa-f-1-d): F-1-D income tiers, overseas business owners, the one-year industry requirement and changing status inside Korea, explained by a Korean attorney.
- [How to Check Family-Owned Land in Korea from Abroad](https://chosanghyun.com/en/guide/check-family-owned-land-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](https://chosanghyun.com/en/guide/korean-property-tax-notices-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](https://chosanghyun.com/en/guide/korean-tax-representative-overseas-owner): 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](https://chosanghyun.com/en/guide/korean-property-title-after-naturalization): 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.
- [F-1-D One Year in the Same Industry: Proving It When Your Business Is New or Your Career Has Changed](https://chosanghyun.com/en/guide/f-1-d-one-year-same-industry): 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.
- [How to Sell Property in Korea from Abroad: Power of Attorney, Seal Certificates and Non-Resident Tax](https://chosanghyun.com/en/guide/sell-korean-property-from-abroad): 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.
- [Inherited Debt in Korea: Renouncing or Limiting an Inheritance from Abroad and the 3-Month Rule](https://chosanghyun.com/en/guide/korean-inheritance-debt-renounce-from-abroad): Can you inherit debt in Korea? When the three-month renunciation period starts for heirs overseas, how to file from abroad, what happens to the next heirs, and what remains if the deadline has passed.
- [Key Money in Korea (권리금): Is It Refundable, and How Does the Law Protect It?](https://chosanghyun.com/en/guide/key-money-korea): 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](https://chosanghyun.com/en/guide/korea-landlord-blocks-new-tenant-key-money): 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](https://chosanghyun.com/en/guide/korea-commercial-lease-renewal-rent-increase): 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](https://chosanghyun.com/en/guide/commercial-lease-korea-foreign-business-owner): 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.
- [Asked to Resign in Korea (권고사직): What to Check Before You Sign](https://chosanghyun.com/en/guide/asked-to-resign-korea): 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](https://chosanghyun.com/en/guide/korea-separation-agreement-review): 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](https://chosanghyun.com/en/guide/korea-severance-pay): 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](https://chosanghyun.com/en/guide/unfair-dismissal-korea): 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)](https://chosanghyun.com/en/guide/korea-unemployment-benefits-foreigners): 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](https://chosanghyun.com/en/guide/workers-compensation-korea): 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](https://chosanghyun.com/en/guide/sue-employer-work-injury-korea): 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.

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