The job description on the company's own career page is written in English. That signal correlates strongly with English-language hiring (recruiter screen, interviews, day-to-day team comms). It is not the same as 'no Korean ever needed' — some roles still expect basic Korean for cross-team work — but it is the cleanest filter we can apply consistently.

Yes for many of these roles. Korean companies hiring on English-language postings often welcome candidates from outside Korea, and most can sponsor an E-7 specialty occupation visa for the right person. The most accessible track is foreign-invested companies (외투기업) like Coupang, Cloudflare, Palantir, Anthropic, and OpenAI — they hire on D-7/D-8 intra-company or E-7 visas with relocation support.

Almost all pay in Korean won. Compensation at large Korean tech companies is competitive (₩60M to ₩150M base for mid-to-senior engineering, plus equity at the top tier), but the median is meaningfully lower than equivalent roles in San Francisco or London. Foreign-invested company payscales tend to be higher and sometimes denominated relative to their HQ band.

Yes. We re-fetch every employer's career page every weekday and mark listings expired within 24 hours of disappearing from the source. The 'posted X days ago' and 'last refreshed' timestamps are real, not stale.

Companies like Coupang, LINE, Naver, and Krafton operate large international engineering and product teams. Even though the company is Korean, the JD is written in English when the role is on a team that runs in English — usually engineering, product, design, data, or research. We tag based on what the JD itself uses, not who owns the company.

Pulled from each employer's career page every weekday at around 17:00 UTC. Listings that disappear from the source are marked expired within 24 hours. Most other 'Korea jobs for foreigners' boards last updated in 2022; ours doesn't sit.

No to all three. /jobs is free for both candidates and employers. Apply links go to the original posting on the company's own ATS (Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, or proprietary career page). Seoulstart adds visa context and curates for English-friendliness; the hiring relationship is between you and the employer.

Each posting is classified by its language signals: JD language, explicit Korean-fluency requirements, foreign-team mentions, sponsorship language, and the company's track record of hiring foreign workers. Roles that look Korean-only fall below our threshold and don't surface here. The classification is Seoulstart's read of the public JD; always verify language requirements directly with the recruiter.

Yes. Click any role and look for the free CV tailor link. It runs three free passes per day, takes a minute, and produces an ATS-friendly English CV mapped to the role's requirements. No upload required, no signup; resets at midnight KST.