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### [Hiring in Korea: What Foreign Employers Get Wrong](https://blog.pearsonp.com/hiring-in-korea-what-foreign-employers-get-wrong?hsLang=en)

Oct 7, 2026, 2:24:13 PM

Hiring in Korea looks straightforward until the first thing goes wrong. A foreign employer signs a contract that would be unremarkable in London or San Francisco, then discovers eighteen months later that they cannot let the person go, that a severance liability has been quietly accruing since day one, and that the probation clause they relied on does not do what they assumed.

![Irene Kim](https://blog.pearsonp.com/hs-fs/hubfs/%ED%94%BC%EC%96%B4%EC%8A%A8%20%EB%A1%9C%EA%B3%A0%20(1).jpg?width=45&name=%ED%94%BC%EC%96%B4%EC%8A%A8%20%EB%A1%9C%EA%B3%A0%20(1).jpg) 

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### [EOR Korea or Your Own Entity: How to Decide](https://blog.pearsonp.com/eor-korea-or-your-own-entity-how-to-decide?hsLang=en)

Oct 6, 2026, 12:19:31 PM

You want to hire someone in Korea. Maybe one engineer, maybe a small sales team. The question that follows is bigger than it looks: do you establish a Korean legal entity, or do you use an Employer of Record?

![Irene Kim](https://blog.pearsonp.com/hs-fs/hubfs/%ED%94%BC%EC%96%B4%EC%8A%A8%20%EB%A1%9C%EA%B3%A0%20(1).jpg?width=45&name=%ED%94%BC%EC%96%B4%EC%8A%A8%20%EB%A1%9C%EA%B3%A0%20(1).jpg) 

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### [D-8 Visa Korea: Requirements for Foreign Founders](https://blog.pearsonp.com/d-8-visa-korea-requirements-for-foreign-founders?hsLang=en)

Oct 1, 2026, 8:30:32 PM

You can incorporate a company in Korea without ever setting foot in the country. What you cannot do is run it from inside Korea without the right visa. That gap catches a lot of foreign founders by surprise, usually after the entity is already registered and the bank account is open.

![Irene Kim](https://blog.pearsonp.com/hs-fs/hubfs/%ED%94%BC%EC%96%B4%EC%8A%A8%20%EB%A1%9C%EA%B3%A0%20(1).jpg?width=45&name=%ED%94%BC%EC%96%B4%EC%8A%A8%20%EB%A1%9C%EA%B3%A0%20(1).jpg) 

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