Free Korea Visit Resource

Corporate Korea Visit Welcome Kit

A practical one-page Korean language and visit-prep kit for business visitors, chambers, trade missions, delegations, public programs, and teams preparing for Korea.

Important Boundary

Helpful preparation, not official advice

This welcome kit is an independent practical Korean resource from Ashley Baek Korean Studio. It is not official chamber, government, embassy, trade mission, legal, visa, job, export, tax, investment, or business-result advice.

Best use: Share this before a Korea visit so participants can review polite greetings, simple introductions, clarification phrases, meals, transportation, and respectful visit-day language.
Five Visit Basics

Five things to know before landing in Korea

Prepare a short self-introduction.

Know how to say your name, organization, role, and why you are visiting in one or two simple sentences.

Practice polite clarification.

Visitors do not need advanced Korean, but they should know how to ask someone to repeat or speak slowly.

Choose real visit situations first.

Meetings, meals, taxis, hotels, site visits, trade shows, and hosted events require different phrases.

Use Korean as a respect signal.

A short greeting or thank-you phrase can make a first meeting feel warmer, even when the meeting continues in English.

Keep practice small and usable.

For a short visit, five useful phrases practiced aloud are better than a long vocabulary list nobody uses.

Core Phrases

Safe starter phrases for business visitors

안녕하세요.
annyeonghaseyo

Hello.

처음 뵙겠습니다.
cheoeum boepgetseumnida

Pleased to meet you.

저는 ___에서 왔습니다.
jeoneun ___eseo watseumnida

I am from ___.

저는 ___ 일을 하고 있습니다.
jeoneun ___ ireul hago itseumnida

I work in ___.

천천히 말씀해 주세요.
cheoncheonhi malsseumhae juseyo

Please speak slowly.

다시 한번 말씀해 주시겠어요?
dasi hanbeon malsseumhae jusigesseoyo?

Could you say that one more time?

도와주셔서 감사합니다.
dowajusyeoseo gamsahamnida

Thank you for helping.

좋은 기회를 주셔서 감사합니다.
joeun gihoereul jusyeoseo gamsahamnida

Thank you for the good opportunity.

For Organizers

How to use this with a group

Before departure

Send this kit with the team checklist and ask each participant to choose five phrases they may actually use.

In orientation

Spend 15-30 minutes practicing greetings, introductions, clarification, and one real travel or meeting situation.

For team leads

Choose the group’s top situations: arrival, meetings, meals, site visits, hosted events, or follow-up.

For custom prep

Ask AshleyBaek about a simple Korean prep plan shaped around the group’s visit purpose and schedule.

Need a short custom prep session?

Ashley can shape practical Korean practice around a group’s Korea visit: greetings, introductions, meals, transportation, meetings, trade shows, site visits, or public programs.