A Start-up Consultation involves providing guidance and support to individuals or teams who are in the process of launching a new business venture. This service is designed to help entrepreneurs navigate the complexities of starting and growing a successful business in South Korea.

If you're currently in Korea and require assistance, we're here to help! You can schedule a face-to-face consultation with one of our staff members and receive the necessary support for your issue. We highly recommend discussing only one topic per session, as a single topic may require more information than anticipated.

The 2025 Spring K-Royal Culture Festival is currently taking place in Seoul, offering a diverse array of programs that celebrate Korea’s rich royal history and culture. From April 26 to May 4, the festival occurs across Seoul’s five grand palaces—Gyeongbokgung, Changdeokgung, Deoksugung, Changgyeonggung, and Gyeonghuigung—as well as at the Jongmyo Shrine. Screen Capture from Creatrip.com **The following events are exclusively dedicated to foreign visitors and prior online reservation is a must.   “Time Travel: Sejong – A Journey Through the Night” at Gyeongbokgung Palace : A nighttime self-guided tour, focusing on the achievements of King Sejong. This program runs from April 26 to 30 and includes exclusive evening access to areas like Hyangwonjeong Pavilion and Geoncheonggung Palace. More details and reservation on this link: https://creatrip.com/en/spot/14749   “Welcome, You in Hanbok” at the East Palaces : Held at Changgyeonggung Palace from April 30 to May 4, this program invites couples to dress in traditional hanbok, explore the palace grounds, and write love letters. Admission to Changgyeonggung Palace, Changdeokgung Palace, and the Secret Garden (Huwon) is included.   More details and reservation on this link: https://creatrip.com/en/spot/14756     “The Emperor’s Dining Table” at Deoksugung : Step into the grandeur of the Korean Empire with a first-of-its-kind gourmet talk show that recreates a royal diplomatic banquet. While savoring elegant Korean dishes once served in the royal court, guests will hear fascinating stories of Emperor Gojong’s diplomacy, blending cuisine and history in an immersive cultural experience that brings the past deliciously to life.   More details and reservation on this link: https://creatrip.com/en/spot/14755     “Morning of the Quiet Palace” at Changdeokgung Palace : A serene morning tour led by guide Fabien Yoon, offering insights into the palace’s history and architecture. Participants receive a traditional Korean sweets set and a souvenir photo. This exclusive program is available to non-Korean nationals from April 30 to May 4.   More details and reservation on this link: https://creatrip.com/en/spot/14742     “Royal Ancestral Ritual Music Nighttime Performance” at the Jongmyo Shrine : Enjoy A special night performance celebrating the 30th anniversary of Jongmyo’s UNESCO World Heritage designation.   More details and reservation on this link: https://creatrip.com/en/spot/14770   Don’t miss this opportunity to immerse yourself in Korea’s royal heritage through a variety of cultural experiences and performances.

🌸 2025 Yeouido Cherry Blossom Festival: Everything You Need to Know Spring in Seoul is a magical time, and one of its most iconic seasonal events is the Yeouido Cherry Blossom Festival (여의도 봄꽃축제) . Each year, thousands flock to Yeouido Han River Park  to bask in the beauty of Seoul’s most famous cherry blossom-lined streets. This year's festival will be held from April 8 to April 12, 2025 . 🌸 Festival Highlights At the heart of the festival are 1,700 King cherry blossom trees , wrapping around the western edge of Yeouido Island, particularly behind the National Assembly Building . These beautiful blooms form a pastel-pink canopy along Yunjung-ro , which is closed off to traffic for the duration of the event, allowing pedestrians to stroll freely and soak up the springtime atmosphere. Aside from the stunning blossoms, visitors can enjoy street performances , live portraits , caricatures , and a vibrant street food scene . From Korean favorites like sweet corn, rice cakes, and corndogs to seasonal snacks, the area becomes a festival of flavors and fun. 📅 Important Update for 2025 Originally scheduled to start on April 4, this year’s festival has been postponed to April 8–12, 2025  due to the anticipated ruling in President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment trial. The Yeongdeungpo District Office , which oversees the event, announced the delay to manage expected crowds near the National Assembly  on the day of the verdict. As a result, the festival’s opening ceremony and a planned air show by the Air Force Black Eagles  have also been canceled. However, the festival itself is still open and ready to welcome spring lovers— free of charge . 🚇 How to Get There Address:  Yeouiseo-ro, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul (서울특별시 영등포구 여의서로) By Subway: The most convenient way to reach the festival is via Yeouinaru Station . Make sure your T-money card  is topped up before you go. All four exits lead toward cherry blossom-lined streets, but for the best walking route around the National Assembly building, head out from Exit 1 or 2 . By Bus: While several buses serve the area, note that many routes may be adjusted or rerouted  during the festival due to road closures. Subway is the most reliable  transportation option. Google Map 🚧 Traffic Info To accommodate the influx of visitors and ensure safety, traffic on Yunjung-ro will be restricted  from noon on Sunday, April 6  until 10 p.m. Sunday, April 13 . Visitors are encouraged to use public transport and avoid driving into the area during the festival dates. Whether you're planning a romantic spring date , a picnic under the petals , or simply want to enjoy one of Seoul’s most photogenic festivals, the Yeouido Cherry Blossom Festival 2025  is not to be missed. Be sure to bring your camera—and your appetite!

Credits: David Levene / theguardian.com Have you ever felt pulled in two different directions while reading the same literary piece that leaves you breathless while feeling like a breath of fresh air at the same time? What if a novel could be both beautiful and brutal, poetic and political or tender and terrifying, blending all these contradictions? If you are curious and intrigued, it’s time you stepped into Han Kang’s fictional universe. The renowned South Korean author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2024 was acclaimed “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”. Here are 5 reasons you should find a place for Han Kang’s novels on your bookshelf. 1.  Deep and disquieting subjects Han Kang touches the core of human existence by exploring experiences that are difficult to navigate or discuss openly in society because they often cause negative reactions and misunderstandings. Whether she talks about bodily autonomy and protest against patriarchy, or personal and historical trauma and suffering, Han Kang's writing has the power to touch the readers deeply. In “The Vegetarian”, the female protagonist Yeong-hye decides to stop eating meat after a disturbing dream. Her decision isn’t perceived as expected according to societal expectations in her country, where eating meat is an unwritten rule in the Korean diet and lifestyle. Therefore, she is perceived as rebellious and nonconformist by her family members, who force her to continue to eat meat in disturbing ways. Yeong-hye’s struggles to adhere to a different lifestyle have a profound meaning because, in fact, her vegetarianism is a statement against patriarchy and conformism, and in favour of bodily autonomy and personal freedom of choice. Credits: Shveta Shah / dailynorthwestern.com 2.  Controversial and challenging themes Han Kang challenges societal norms and pushes the ethical and cultural boundaries by exploring provocative themes such as autonomy, objectification, censorship, violence, mental illness, suffering, trauma, repression, survival, social stigma and death. In “Human Acts”, an emotionally devastating that centers around a real event in South Korea's history, the Gwangju Uprising (1980), themes such as trauma, suffering, censorship, violence and death take the central stage and challenge the readers by inviting them to reflect, understand and feel deeply and express empathic concern. The novel allows the reader to experience multiple perspectives and understand the consequences of this brutal event on the lives of different innocent people who fell victim to it. The Gwangju Uprising, which was violently suppressed by military force and ended up in a massacre, left a black stain in South Korea's history, and Han Kang managed to handle this controversial topic with grace and dignity in her novel. Credits: dakilanglaag / dakilanglaagan.com 3.  Intense and impactful emotions Han Kang focuses on intense and raw emotions that are difficult to process for both characters and readers alike. The alienation felt by the protagonist of “The Vegetarian” is painful and realistic, while the feelings of alienation, abandonment, despair and exile are overwhelming and difficult to navigate. Grief is the emotional core of “Human Acts”, a heartbreaking story about losing a loved one to political violence. The grief felt by the characters in this novel is expressed through a range of emotions or physical manifestations such as anger, sadness, silence or tears. The feelings of longing and emptiness are expressed in one of Han Kang’s less popular novels, “The White Books”, in which the protagonist reflects upon the death of a baby sister and the difficulty of expressing this pain through proper language. Credits: Thomas Moore Devlin / babbel.com 4.  Merging personal and collective history Han Kang’s novels mingle the personal experiences of her characters with the experiences lived collectively by people over the centuries. Yeong-hye’s struggle with the patriarchal system in “The Vegetarian” isn’t just a singular experience, but a collective one that women in Korean society have endured so far. The grief in “Human Acts” is a collectively felt emotion that weighs on the hearts of the victims who lost a loved one during the Gwangju Uprising. Whether it's about the fight against patriarchy or the aftermath of shocking political events, the destinies of Han Kang’s characters intertwine with different historical, political and social aspects of South Korea. 5.  Cross-cultural universality Han Kang’s stories are deeply rooted in Korean culture and history, but despite this fact, the universal themes resonate with readers across language and borders. Themes like alienation, grief, identity, suffering or trauma are universal and can touch the hearts of any readers in search of depth, profound understanding or intense and emotional literary experiences. Han Kang doesn’t write lighthearted stories that give you comfort - she crafts deeply emotional stories so complex that they have the power to haunt you long after turning the last page. Therefore, if you are ready for fiction that challenges your mind and transforms your heart, Han Kang’s novels are waiting for you. Would you give it a try? Let us know!

Going to the cinema in Korea TOP Netflix Korean dramas to watch right now Request more info

The new "face" of Korean travel is New Jeans K-Community Challenge by KOFICE Request more info

Privacy Policy Flip Korea Privacy Policy Your privacy is important to us. It is Flip Korea's policy to respect your privacy and comply with any applicable law and regulation regarding any personal information we may collect about you, including across our website, https://www.flipkorea.com/, and other sites we own and operate. This policy is effective as of 14 February 2022 and was last updated on 7 October 2022. Information We Collect Information we collect includes both information you knowingly and actively provide us when using or participating in any of our services and promotions, and any information automatically sent by your devices in the course of accessing our products and services. Log Data When you visit our website, our servers may automatically log the standard data provided by your web browser. It may include your device’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, your browser type and version, the pages you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on each page, other details about your visit, and technical details that occur in conjunction with any errors you may encounter. Please be aware that while this information may not be personally identifying by itself, it may be possible to combine it with other data to personally identify individual persons. Personal Information We may ask for personal information which may include one or more of the following: Name Email Social media profiles Date of birth Phone/mobile number Home/mailing address Legitimate Reasons for Processing Your Personal Information We only collect and use your personal information when we have a legitimate reason for doing so. In which instance, we only collect personal information that is reasonably necessary to provide our services to you. Collection and Use of Information We may collect personal information from you when you do any of the following on our website: Sign up to receive updates from us via email or social media channels Use a mobile device or web browser to access our content Contact us via email, social media, or on any similar technologies When you mention us on social media We may collect, hold, use, and disclose information for the following purposes, and personal information will not be further processed in a manner that is incompatible with these purposes: to contact and communicate with you for analytics, market research, and business development, including to operate and improve our website, associated applications, and associated social media platforms for advertising and marketing, including to send you promotional information about our products and services and information about third parties that we consider may be of interest to you Please be aware that we may combine information we collect about you with general information or research data we receive from other trusted sources. Security of Your Personal Information When we collect and process personal information, and while we retain this information, we will protect it within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification. Although we will do our best to protect the personal information you provide to us, we advise that no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure, and no one can guarantee absolute data security. We will comply with laws applicable to us in respect of any data breach. You are responsible for selecting any password and its overall security strength, ensuring the security of your own information within the bounds of our services. How Long We Keep Your Personal Information We keep your personal information only for as long as we need to. This time period may depend on what we are using your information for, in accordance with this privacy policy. If your personal information is no longer required, we will delete it or make it anonymous by removing all details that identify you. However, if necessary, we may retain your personal information for our compliance with a legal, accounting, or reporting obligation or for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific, or historical research purposes or statistical purposes. Children’s Privacy We do not aim any of our products or services directly at children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information about children under 13. Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties We may disclose personal information to: a parent, subsidiary, or affiliate of our company third party service providers for the purpose of enabling them to provide their services, for example, IT service providers, data storage, hosting and server providers, advertisers, or analytics platforms our employees, contractors, and/or related entities our existing or potential agents or business partners sponsors or promoters of any competition, sweepstakes, or promotion we run courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities, and law enforcement officers, as required by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights third parties, including agents or sub-contractors, who assist us in providing information, products, services, or direct marketing to you third parties to collect and process data International Transfers of Personal Information The personal information we collect is stored and/or processed where we or our partners, affiliates, and third-party providers maintain facilities. Please be aware that the locations to which we store, process, or transfer your personal information may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information. If we transfer your personal information to third parties in other countries: (i) we will perform those transfers in accordance with the requirements of applicable law; and (ii) we will protect the transferred personal information in accordance with this privacy policy. Your Rights and Controlling Your Personal Information You always retain the right to withhold personal information from us, with the understanding that your experience of our website may be affected. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights over your personal information. If you do provide us with personal information you understand that we will collect, hold, use and disclose it in accordance with this privacy policy. You retain the right to request details of any personal information we hold about you. If we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this privacy policy. If you are a third party providing personal information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such person’s consent to provide the personal information to us. If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time. We will provide you with the ability to unsubscribe from our email-database or opt out of communications. Please be aware we may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity. If you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant, or misleading, please contact us using the details provided in this privacy policy. We will take reasonable steps to correct any information found to be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, or out of date. If you believe that we have breached a relevant data protection law and wish to make a complaint, please contact us using the details below and provide us with full details of the alleged breach. We will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you, in writing, setting out the outcome of our investigation and the steps we will take to deal with your complaint. You also have the right to contact a regulatory body or data protection authority in relation to your complaint. Use of Cookies We use “cookies” to collect information about you and your activity across our site. A cookie is a small piece of data that our website stores on your computer, and accesses each time you visit, so we can understand how you use our site. This helps us serve you content based on preferences you have specified. Limits of Our Policy Our website may link to external sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and policies of those sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy practices. Changes to This Policy At our discretion, we may change our privacy policy to reflect updates to our business processes, current acceptable practices, or legislative or regulatory changes. If we decide to change this privacy policy, we will post the changes here at the same link by which you are accessing this privacy policy. If required by law, we will get your permission or give you the opportunity to opt in to or opt out of, as applicable, any new uses of your personal information. Contact Us For any questions or concerns regarding your privacy, you may contact us using the following details: However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods: Email: theflipkorea@gmail.com By visiting this link .