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What the job market in Korea looks like for foreign residents, counted from the 2,305 open Korea jobs on Seoulstart Jobs: which roles are hiring, where, who is hiring, how many postings skip Korean, and what postings that state pay offer.
Figures as of October 21, 2026. Updated after each listings refresh.
Open jobs in Korea
2,305
1,045 added in the last 30 days
Employers hiring
191
Postings in English
61%
455 more are bilingual
Korean not required
34%
of 2,187 postings we have read
Likely E-7 visa roles
70%
professional roles that usually hire on the E-7
Median stated pay
₩36M
a year, from 9 postings that state pay
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Open Korea jobs by role. Stated pay is the median of postings in that role that give a KRW salary, shown when at least 5 do. Market pay is the Ministry of Employment and Labor's occupation estimate (wagework.go.kr), a guide to the role in general, not to these employers.
| Role | Open jobs | Korean not required | Likely E-7 | Stated pay | Market pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering | 784 | 39% | 77% | - | ₩59M |
| Sales & Customer Success | 250 | 39% | 45% | - | ₩49M |
| Operations & Strategy | 189 | 22% | 67% | - | - |
| Marketing | 122 | 21% | 71% | - | ₩51M |
| Product Management | 97 | 13% | 89% | - | - |
| Design | 76 | 5% | 93% | - | ₩40M |
| Finance & Accounting | 59 | 41% | 70% | - | ₩97M |
| Hospitality | 50 | 67% | 14% | - | - |
| Research | 47 | 41% | 63% | - | - |
| HR & Recruiting | 41 | 13% | 56% | - | ₩88M |
| Legal & Compliance | 29 | 17% | 79% | - | ₩100M |
| Data & ML | 18 | 17% | 100% | - | ₩63M |
| Teaching & education | 10 | 100% | 50% | - | - |
533 more jobs are in other roles.
Most Korea postings do not state pay. Of the 2,187 we have read, 9 give a KRW salary. Their middle half runs from ₩30M to ₩40M a year, with a median of ₩36M. Postings that state pay are not a random sample, so treat this as a rough guide.
| City | Open jobs | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Seoul | 1,403 | 61% |
| Hwaseong | 96 | 4% |
| Icheon | 31 | 1% |
| Pyeongtaek | 26 | 1% |
| Bundang | 24 | 1% |
| Incheon | 15 | 1% |
| Seongnam | 14 | 1% |
| Busan | 13 | 1% |
Employers with the most open Korea jobs on Seoulstart Jobs today.
| Employer | Open jobs |
|---|---|
| Coupang | 229 |
| Applied Materials | 83 |
| Musinsa | 83 |
| DeepX | 60 |
| Marriott International | 53 |
| ASM | 51 |
| Thermo Fisher Scientific | 50 |
| Daangn | 49 |
| Krafton | 48 |
| RLWRLD | 45 |
| FuriosaAI | 44 |
| Channel Talk | 42 |
| Merck KGaA | 41 |
| Upstage | 41 |
| Rebellions | 38 |
| Type | Open jobs | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Full-time | 827 | 36% |
| Contract | 104 | 5% |
| Internship | 53 | 2% |
| Part-time | 3 | 0% |
| Not stated | 1,318 | 57% |
From the Korea job listings on Seoulstart Jobs: openings we collect from employers' own career pages and job boards, then read one by one. On 2026-10-21 we listed 2305 open jobs in Korea at 191 employers. The counts update after each listings refresh.
Of the 2187 Korea postings we have read, 734 (34%) do not ask for Korean. That share is for the jobs Seoulstart lists, which lean toward employers that hire foreign residents, so it is higher than for the Korean job market as a whole.
Our read of the posting marks a role as E-7 type when it is a professional, specialist or technical job at a company in Korea, the kind that usually hires foreign staff on the E-7 visa. It is not a promise of sponsorship. Confirm sponsorship with the employer.
Yes. Please cite "Seoulstart, Korea Jobs for Foreigners Report, Q4 2026" with a link to this page, and include the date the figures were taken.