The open lane
The EU–Korea free trade agreement — Europe’s first of the modern generation — runs goods tariff-free across most of the book and keeps services and digital trade flowing. A Dutch BV sells all 27 markets natively: one VAT cockpit, English-first administration, and the logistics coastline for anything physical: the import lever and the electronics chapter.
The founder’s sequence
The BV forms remotely in two to three weeks (the digital route), becomes recognised sponsor, and employs its own founder as highly-skilled migrant — family included with work rights: the machinery. The startup-visa lane stands beside it for idea-stage founders: the comparison. Salary numbers stay rational through the build via the growth-phase arrangement: that play.
The stack that funds the build
The Korean tech founder’s natural kit: the WBSO relieving development payroll (the credit), the 9% innovation box on the shipped product (the box), the day-one holding skeleton (the structure) — and the treaty carrying distributions home when the time comes: that corridor. Sector editions: beauty and gaming.