Korea, but in English.
Intelligence, not
translation.

Market, media, financial, and social listening — Seoul depth without flying staff in.

Fixed-scope brief · reply within 2 business days

// Where We Look

Beyond Google.
Beyond Bloomberg.

100₊

Korean media outlets

Mainstream press, trade press, digital outlets — real-time monitoring with Korean-native NLP.

20₊

Korea-native platforms

Naver, Kakao, DC Inside, FMKorea, theqoo, NamuWiki — communities English tools can't index.

2,500₊

DART filings indexed

Korean public company financial filings — extracted, translated, structured for English readers.

Layers of sentiment analysis

Mainstream → trade → social → community → cafe-level signals. Most foreign research stops at layer 1.

Key Korean industries tracked

K-content, mobility, fintech, e-commerce, gaming, biotech, semiconductors — rolling signal streams.

// Why This Service Exists

Korean signal,
distilled in English.

Korean industry data lives in Korean. Korean public sentiment lives on Naver, Daum cafes, KakaoTalk, and platform-specific subcommunities that English-only researchers can't reach. Korean financial filings (DART) are public but functionally inaccessible to non-Korean readers. Bloomberg's Korea coverage is decent on macro and bad on industry depth. Reuters does well on politics and badly on culture.

This service exists for clients who need actual Korean signal — distilled, contextualized, and delivered in English.

// Four Sub-Services

Four research verticals.

→ 01 / Market Research

Korean consumer markets, industries, trends

Used by foreign brands evaluating Korea entry, Korean brands evaluating segment shifts, and investors evaluating Korea exposure.

→ 02 / Media Research

Korean press monitoring and analysis

Track coverage, analyze sentiment, identify narrative arcs, and surface early-warning signals on emerging stories.

→ 03 / Financial Research

Korean public companies, IPO, M&A

From primary Korean filings, Korean analyst reports, and proprietary industry sources. English-language analysis at the depth Western analysts can't match.

→ 04 / Social Listening

Korean SNS, community, comment monitoring

Naver, Kakao, plus Korea-native platforms (DC Inside, FMKorea, theqoo, NamuWiki) that English tools can't index.

// Subscription Series · B-Sides Seoul

The Korean media you
didn't see.

The B-Sides Seoul series — curated, hand-picked, from inside Seoul. Available in monthly and quarterly editions, with tiered access for individual analysts up to enterprise teams. See all tiers and bundles.

→ B-Sides Seoul Report

Monthly · From $15/mo

Curated Korean media notes, sector-specified. Four tiers — Listener, Digger, Crate, Label — from individual to enterprise.

→ B-Sides Seoul Quarterly

Quarterly · From $299/qtr

Deep quarterly report on K-content, music, entertainment industries. Reader and Vault tiers — Vault includes 1:1 call and priority asks.

// Custom Research

For larger engagements.

Custom research projects are scoped and priced individually. Annual flagship reports, IPO due diligence, multi-month tracking studies — all discussed at discovery.

Sample outputs available on request. Recent topics include public-company financial deep-dives in the K-pop sector, market-entry analysis for foreign tech firms, and multi-year analytical theses on major Korean entertainment groups.

Korea, but in English. Intelligence, not translation.

Beyond Google. Beyond Bloomberg.

Korean signal,distilled in English.