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South Korea — South Korea D-8 Corporate Investment Visa
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D-8 (기업투자, corporate investment) is Korea's real route for someone establishing or investing in an operating Korean company — you must invest at least KRW 100 million of your own money, wired from a personal account outside Korea, and hold at least 10% of the company's voting shares. It genuinely is not a passive-investment visa: 2026 consular practice has tightened scrutiny specifically on 'paper' companies with no real activity, weighing the investor's professional background and the business's actual operations more heavily than before.
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