Guides for buyers
Plain explanations of how buying a company works in Korea, written for buyers from abroad.
- Process
Buying a Korean company: the steps for a foreign buyer
From your first criteria to the foreign investment filing and closing, in the order things usually happen.
- Tax
The 50% line: deemed acquisition tax when you buy a Korean company
Cross 50% of the shares, together with related parties, and Korean local tax may treat you as buying the company’s real estate and other taxable assets.
- Structure
Share deal or business transfer: what you take over in Korea
Buying the shares and buying the business are different deals. Here is what comes with each.