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Koreans look for reviews before they buy. Right now you have none.

You launched in Korea. The site is in Korean. But type your brand name into Naver and nothing comes up. Koreans do not buy in that state. They look first for who has tried it and what they said. No reviews means "a product nobody has bought yet".

This project creates the first reviews. Not people with the most followers — five to eight Korean creators your category actually trusts. We pick them, approach them, get product to them, brief them on what needs saying, make sure the advertising disclosure is done by the book, and after publishing measure who brought how many people. Six weeks later you have reviews, numbers, and a list of who to use again.

Who this is for

Three situations we see most.

Just launched in Korea

You started selling in Korea, and a search shows nothing.

Type the brand into Naver and there is not one blog review. Run ads and people look you up and leave. Without the first few reviews there is no next step.

Beauty · food · home

A product you have to try, and no Korean has tried it.

It sells on Instagram and YouTube. But you do not know where to find Korean creators, how to contact them, or what is reasonable to offer. DMs go unanswered.

Tried it once

You paid someone with a big following, and nothing happened.

Chosen by follower count, sent the product with no brief, no disclosure, and the comments turned hostile. There were views but no visits and no purchases. What was missing was a selection standard, a brief and measurement.

Not for you ifKoreans cannot yet buy from you — no delivery or seller — because reviews then have nowhere to send people. Or you already have plenty of Korean reviews and a social team managing creators, in which case the Social Media retainer fits better than this project. The free website audit says which.

Why not just send free product

Sponsoring is easy. Sponsoring that works is not.

Follower count is not a result

A creator with 20,000 followers who covers only your category sells more than a lifestyle influencer with 300,000. The people watching have to be the people buying. Korean viewers spot "paid to say this" very fast.

Skip disclosure and the comments punish you before the law does

Under Fair Trade Commission guidelines, content made for money or product must say so up front. Miss it and, before any fine, the comments call it "back advertising" and the creator and the brand get it together.

Instagram#광고 or #협찬 at the very start of the caption
YouTube"Includes paid promotion" label plus a line in the description
Naver BlogFirst line: "This post was written after receiving the product"

No brief, and all you get is an unboxing

Send only the product and the creator opens the box, says it is pretty, and stops. They need to know what is different, who it is for and where to buy it before those words appear. But do not hand them a script. We supply the facts; the creator supplies the words.

Measure nothing and there is no next time

Each creator needs a different link and coupon code, or you never know who brought whom. Judge by views alone and next time you pay the same person again. What was measured becomes the next campaign's list.

What you get

Eight things, from outreach to report.

01 · Campaign brief

One goal for this campaign (first reviews, visits or sales — pick one), who it should reach, three things that must be said, and what must not be said. Settled on one page before anything starts.

02 · Creator shortlist

15 to 20 people on Naver Blog, Instagram and YouTube who cover your category. Judged by the response to their recent content and the quality of the comments, not by follower count. Expected terms listed beside each; you choose five to eight.

03 · Outreach and contracts

Proposals and negotiation in Korean. A short contract that states the number of posts, timing, advertising disclosure and how far we may reuse the content. Creator fees are separate from our work: you approve the terms and pay the creators directly. We take nothing on top.

04 · Product handling and creator brief

Product comes to our address in Korea and goes out to each creator. Digital products get accounts. The creator brief is in Korean, with the facts and must-haves filled in and the wording left open.

05 · One content review

One look before publishing. We correct wrong facts, missing disclosure and misspelled brand names, nothing else. The creator's tone and opinions stay. That is what makes a review look like a review.

06 · Publishing schedule and amplification

Five to eight posts spread over two to three weeks rather than one day. Published content is shared on the brand's own channels, and the strong ones are flagged for paid boosting (ad spend separate, through Paid Advertising).

07 · Measurement

A different link and coupon code per creator. Who brought how many people, and how many of them enquired or bought, read in GA4. Whether searches for the brand name on Naver rose after publishing.

08 · Report and next list

Results per creator, who to use again and who not, the content you may reuse in your ads or on your site (rights confirmed only), and a step-by-step for running the next campaign yourselves.

What lands in the folderThe campaign brief, the candidate list with terms, copies of the contracts, the creator brief, links to every published post, the per-creator results table, the reusable content list and the next-campaign playbook. The creator contacts are yours too. Nothing sits in an account of ours.

How it is built

Choosing well is half the result.

01

Chosen by category, not by followers

We look at a creator's last ten posts. Do they cover your category consistently, do the comments say "pretty" or "where do I buy this", and how much of their content is sponsored. Follower count is the last thing we look at.

  • Mid-size first — someone trusted inside the category over someone famous. Cost and response are both better there.
  • Sponsored ratio checked — an account where half the posts are sponsored has already lost its viewers' trust.
  • Chosen by Koreans — which accounts Korean viewers trust is something Koreans know.
02

Approached the Korean way

An English DM to a Korean creator mostly goes unanswered. We propose in Korean, in the expected form, with the terms clear from the first message. Reply time is built into the plan. That is why it is six weeks, not four.

  • Terms up front — number of posts, timing, disclosure and reuse rights all in the first proposal.
  • Fees in the open — you see and approve creator fees and pay them directly. We add nothing on top.
  • Refusals recorded — no reply or wrong terms still goes on the next list.
03

A brief, not a script

We write what the creator has to know: what is different, who it is for, where to buy, what not to say. We do not write how to say it. A review read from a script is not a review, and viewers know first.

  • The facts are ours — product details, price, where to buy, cautions.
  • The words are theirs — the good and the disappointing. One line of honest disappointment is what makes the rest believable.
04

Disclosure goes in the contract

Not a request — a contract term. Which wording goes where on which platform is written into the contract and checked at review. It protects the brand and it protects the creator.

  • Platform-specific wording — Instagram, YouTube and Naver Blog each differ. As in the table above.
  • A review item — no disclosure, no publishing until it is there.
05

Measured one creator at a time

Each creator gets a different link and coupon code. That is how you see who actually brought people, not just who got views. The result becomes the list for the next campaign.

  • Links and codes — a UTM link per creator, and a coupon code where possible.
  • Naver search volume — whether searches for the brand name rose after publishing, from Naver DataLab.
  • Views for reference only — in the report, but not counted as a result.

Process

Four steps, about six weeks.

Week 1

Brief and shortlist

The campaign brief is settled. We find 15 to 20 candidates and send them with expected terms. You pick five to eight.

Weeks 2–3

Outreach and product

Proposals in Korean, terms agreed, contracts signed. Product received and forwarded, creator brief sent.

Weeks 4–5

Production and publishing

Creators make the content. One review before publishing. Posts go out staggered over two to three weeks and are shared on brand channels.

Week 6

Measure and hand over

Per-creator results from links, codes, GA4 and Naver search volume. The report, the next list and the reusable content list, in an hour together.

What we measureVisits and enquiries or purchases that came through each creator's link and coupon code, and the change in Naver searches for the brand name before and after publishing. Views and likes are in the report but are not counted as results.

Honest limits

What this project will not do.

01

Creator fees are separate. They are not part of our work. We list expected terms beside each candidate; you approve and pay the creators directly. We take nothing on top.

02

No guarantee of views, followers or sales. Choose well and brief well, and the content is still made by the creator and the response is still decided by viewers. What we promise is to choose by a standard, disclose by the law, and measure one creator at a time.

03

Korea only. Korean creators on Naver Blog, Instagram and YouTube. Creators in other countries are not this project.

04

Five to eight creators, once. Managing dozens of creators on an ongoing basis is the Social Media retainer's job. This project runs the first campaign properly, once, and leaves you the steps to run the next one yourself.

05

Customs are yours. We receive product at a Korean address and forward it, but customs, duties and import requirements for goods such as food or cosmetics are your responsibility. If a product cannot come in, we say so before starting.

FAQ

Creator campaigns, answered.

Which creators do you use?+
Creators on Naver Blog, Instagram or YouTube — whichever is where your product actually sells. Not celebrities: people who cover your category consistently and whose comments say "where can I buy this". We give you 15 to 20 candidates with terms, and you pick five to eight.
How are creator fees handled?+
They are separate from our work and vary by creator, channel and number of posts. We list expected terms next to each candidate; you approve; we negotiate and contract at those terms; and you pay the creators directly. We take nothing on top.
How do we get product to the creators?+
Ship to our address in Korea and we forward it to each creator. For software or services we set up accounts. Customs, duties and import requirements for goods such as food or cosmetics are your responsibility, and we confirm before starting whether the product can come in.
Can we control what creators say?+
You can fix the facts, not the wording. Three things that must be said, and anything that must not be said, go into the brief and the contract. How they say it — and what they call good or disappointing — is theirs. Before publishing we check only factual errors and disclosure. A review read from a script is spotted by viewers first, and then the money is wasted.
Is advertising disclosure required?+
Yes. Under Korea Fair Trade Commission guidelines, content made for money or free product must disclose that up front. We make it a contract condition and check it before publishing; without it, publishing waits. It is not only the law: Korean viewers call undisclosed sponsorship "back advertising" and turn on the creator and the brand together.
How long does it take?+
About six weeks: brief and shortlist in week one, outreach and product in weeks two and three, production and publishing in weeks four and five, measurement and handover in week six. Not four, because creators take time to reply and to produce. If creator approval or product arrival runs late it stretches by that much, and we say so in advance.
Can we reuse creator content in our own ads?+
Only within what the contract says. Where (ads, website, social) and for how long goes into the first proposal and is negotiated. At handover you get a list of content cleared for reuse, and you use only what is on it. Taking content without a contract causes trouble with the creator, and in Korea that story travels fast.

Also

Korea Market Entry →Once the reviews exist: Naver Blog, Cafe and advertising to bring Korean traffic. Social Media →After the first campaign: the retainer that runs creators on an ongoing basis. Korean Localization →Making the site convert the people who arrive from the reviews. In order, this comes first.

If you have read this far, the website audit is free.

The free audit is a website audit: how you show up in search and in AI search, whether basic tracking is alive, and the first three things we would fix, in writing. It is the same audit whichever page you came from, and it costs nothing. If it is a creator campaign you want, tell us the product and where Koreans can buy it in the same form. We will look at what Naver shows for you today, and answer first whether you need this project at all.

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