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They gave you a street address in Korea because the law made them print it. Here's how to read it before you look it up, which government page opens in English, and the three things a perfect address still doesn't prove.
You ran the Korean business registration number and it came back active. That answers one question and leaves three open — including what to do when they sent a photo of a certificate instead of a number.
If you paid and nothing arrived, the routes that can actually return your money run through your own card issuer or payment platform — and they expire. What works, what doesn't, in order.
Verifying a Korean employer from overseas is harder than verifying a shop — most official registries are locked behind a Korean phone number. What opens, what doesn't, and the red flags that matter.
Every legitimate Korean online business leaves a paper trail in public registries — free to read from anywhere, no Korean phone number, no login. Four lookups, in the order I run them.
The seller said it shipped. That's where act two starts. Fake courier tracking sites, customs fee demands, borrowed tracking numbers, and the fee escalation ladder.
Used car in Korea, seller you can't meet? Five checks — the government registry, insurance history, the free flood-car lookup, the dealer inspection record, and name matching.
An anonymous service can burn its own records — not the bank's, not the tax ledger's. What confidentiality really covers when you hire a fixer in Korea, stated plainly.
Buying from a Korean seller you can't meet? Five practical checks — account age, timestamped photos, name matching, safe payment, real-world verification.