askTender Partners · South Korea

Tender work in South Korea. Signed by you.

Companies bidding on South Korea’s public tenders need registrations, certificates and attested documents that only a licensed professional may do, and a bid prepared to the last page. As an askTender Partner, that work comes to you as priced job offers, done under your own name and registration.

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How filing works in South Korea

The company presses submit. You do the rest. In South Korea, KONEPS lets only the company's own officers and employees submit e-bids. You don't file on the portal: you do the registrations, certificates and attested documents in your own name, prepare the bid, and can guide the client through the submission.

Foreign bidders can name an outside submission-only agent, so an askTender Partner can lodge their bid.

Guided filing sessions are paid work too: you sit with the client’s signatory, file by file, until the receipt is saved. Nobody ever uses the client’s login or signature.

Who we work with in South Korea

Ministry of the Interior and Safety

Administrative agent (행정사)

Prepare and submit documents to administrative agencies on the client's behalf (e.g. construction/service business registrations, factory registration papers); Prepare the KONEPS registration evidence pack for domestic firms (the online application itself is…

2 services on the DeskLicensed specialists

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Korean Association of Certified Public Tax Accountants

Certified tax accountant (세무사) / certified public accountant (공인회계사)

Business registration (사업자등록) and VAT filings as tax agent through Hometax; Obtain tax-payment certificates (납세증명서) and business registration certificates (사업자등록증명) for the client with authorisation; Prepare financial statements used for SME confirmation and…

2 services on the DeskAccountants

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Korean Bar Association (대한변호사협회); Ministry of Justice

Attorney (변호사) / law firm (법무법인)

Review contracts and joint-contracting (공동수급) agreements; Handle objections (이의신청) and State Contract Dispute Mediation Committee proceedings; Notarise documents where the law firm is authorised for notarial work (법무법인 공증)

Called in when a tender asksLawyers

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Ministry of Justice (Korea); home-country notarial authority

Notary (공증인) / notarising law firm; home-country notary for foreign firms

Notarise the Korean translation of a foreign firm's home-country business registration certificate for KONEPS overseas registration; Notarise non-public documents (e.g. supplier certificates, powers of attorney) where tenders ask for originals

Called in when a tender asksNotaries

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Translators

Translator (no statutory sworn-translator system; translation is notarised)

Translate the overseas registration document into Korean (name, representative and address also in English); Translate tender documents; Korean prevails over English in foreign-procurement tenders

1 service on the DeskTranslators

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Public Procurement Service (registration on KONEPS)

Korean trading company / bid-submission agent (무역대리업·수입대행 registered on KONEPS)

Act as the 'Bidder' (입찰자) in PPS foreign-procurement tenders with the foreign maker as 'Supplier' (joint and several liability); Act as an overseas bidder's submission-only bid agent (입찰서류 제출만을 위임받은 입찰대리인) for paper bids, if designated in the registration

Called in when a tender asksCustoms agents

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Financial Services Commission; sector ministries for 공제조합

Guarantee issuers: banks, SGI Seoul Guarantee (서울보증보험), construction/engineering…

Issue bid bonds (입찰보증금 보증서) where a payment undertaking is not allowed; Issue performance bonds (계약보증금, at least 10%) and advance-payment guarantees; For foreign suppliers: home-country bank guarantee or irrevocable L/C in favour of PPS

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KATS

Product and system certification bodies (KC, KS, GS, ISO bodies) and PPS-designated…

Issue product certifications a specification may require; Issue the credit evaluation report PPS can demand from overseas provisional winners and the credit grade used in qualification reviews

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Work the Desk sends Partners

Each service, with the official cost and usual lead time where they’re published (— where none is). Your own fee is set per job, on top.

Administrative agent (행정사)

Corporate registry certificate (법인등기사항증명서)

Court registry extract required for KONEPS registration of corporations; the registration must use the exact trade name on it.
Company identity

—same day (online)

Works and services business registrations (건설업, 전기공사업, 정보통신공사업, 소방시설공사업, 엔지니어링, 소프트웨어사업자 etc.)

Works registrants must hold the business registration handbook for their trade; service registrants the licence/registration under the relevant Act (e.g. Construction Technology, Engineering, Software Promotion); bids…
Sector licences and contractor registers

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Certified tax accountant (세무사) / certified public accountant (공인회계사)

Business registration (사업자등록) and business registration certificate (사업자등록증명)

Korean tax business registration with the National Tax Service; a precondition for domestic KONEPS registration (or a unique number certificate 고유번호증 for non-profits).
Tax registration

—Certificate: immediate…

Tax payment certificates (국세·지방세 납세증명서)

Certificates of no tax arrears commonly demanded before contract and for payment claims.
Tax registration

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Translator (no statutory sworn-translator system; translation is notarised)

Notarised Korean translation of foreign documents

Documents not in Korean need a notarised Korean translation; non-public documents must be notarised.
Legal documents

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Guarantee issuers: banks, SGI Seoul Guarantee (서울보증보험), construction/engineering…

Performance bond (계약보증금)

At least 10% of the contract price before contract signing, in cash or a guarantee under Enforcement Decree Art. 37(2); foreign suppliers usually post it through the advising bank after L/C notice.
Bid security

>= 10% of contract price

Product and system certification bodies (KC, KS, GS, ISO bodies) and PPS-designated…

Credit evaluation report (신용평가 / 신용조사)

PPS may require an overseas provisional winner or supplier to undergo a credit search by a PPS-designated rating company; domestic qualification reviews (적격심사) score the credit grade from approved agencies.
Accountant-attested financial certificates

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Product certifications (KC safety, KS, GS for software, excellent procurement products 우수조달물품)

Mandatory KC marks for regulated products and specification-required certifications; Korean type-approval or official inspection costs fall on the supplier in foreign procurement.
Product certifications

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Guided filing sessions

Guided filing session on KONEPS (나라장터)

The portal has no delegate seat, so your own signatory logs in and submits. askTender (or your Partner) sits with them on a call, file by file, until the submission receipt is saved.

—30–90 minutes, booked befo

How work reaches you

Offer. A client’s bid needs work only your profession may do. You get the requirement, the tender’s format, the deadline and your fee.
Accept. Accept within 4 hours and confirm you have no conflict. The client sees your firm’s name and shares what you need.
Do the work. Ask the client for anything missing, right on the job. Sign under your own name and registration, and upload.
Checked. askTender checks every deliverable against the tender before the client sees it. If something’s off, you hear exactly what.
Paid. The client approves, it goes into their bid, and your fee is released.

Who does what

Partners9 askTender Desk10 The bidding company itself8

The company keeps only what the law reserves to it: its identity checks, its own digital signature, and signing its declarations and bid. We never use a client’s signature, PIN or portal login.

Portals

KONEPS↗KONEPS (나라장터, g2b.go.kr)↗

Open tenders in South Korea

Bidding in South Korea?

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Rules we follow in South Korea

Administrative agent (행정사). Cannot do tax agency (세무사) or legal representation in disputes (변호사); statute text was not retrievable during this research, so the exact scope is from general knowledge.
Certified tax accountant (세무사) / certified public accountant (공인회계사). Tax agency for a fee is reserved to 세무사 (and lawyers/CPAs registered as tax agents); askTender must not file tax matters itself.
Attorney (변호사) / law firm (법무법인). Attorney-at-Law Act Art. 34 bars lawyers from sharing fees with or receiving case referrals from non-lawyers for consideration, and Art. 109 bars non-lawyers from handling legal matters for a fee; askTender cannot take a share of legal fees. Statute text not retrievable during this research.
Korean trading company / bid-submission agent (무역대리업·수입대행 registered…. Registrants may not induce a winner to pay part of the contract price for the bid or help it evade direct performance (PPS registration rule Art. 18-2); a Korean agent must hold Korean business registration listing trade/import agency.
Product and system certification bodies (KC, KS, GS, ISO bodies) and…. Must be the PPS-designated credit rating company where the tender says so.

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Sources law.go.kr · pps.go.kr · gov.kr · sminfo.mss.go.kr · asktender.org