WordPress & CMS Development Company in Seoul

Pricing follows the engagement, which is typically one of: a scoped WordPress build at Seoul rates, a headless WordPress or Strapi platform for a Pangyo-based platform company or a chaebol brand network, or full enterprise multi-site WordPress networks for chaebol brand portfolios with FSC disclosure-aware editorial workflows, K-ISMS or ISMS-P alignment, and multi-region failover. Scope drivers include a custom theme, three to five custom post types, a Korean and English multilingual layer through WPML or Polylang, PIPA-aware contact and signup forms, AWS ap-northeast-2 (Seoul) hosting, and a documented editorial handover. Seoul rates sit roughly at par with Tokyo and twenty percent below San Francisco. We are fixed-fee in KRW, with 3.5 hours of synchronous overlap from Dubai and Chandigarh, and procurement deliverables in Korean and English.

The Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), enforced by the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC), is one of Asia's strictest privacy laws — explicit, separate consent for collection, use, third-party sharing, and overseas transfer, mandatory data minimisation, and rapid breach notification through KISA. Our Seoul WordPress engagements ship a PIPA data inventory mapped to the CMS data model, layered consent flows (separate checkboxes for each purpose) in Korean on signup, comment, and IR mailing list forms, ROK-resident DPO contact patterns and breach playbooks aligned with PIPC notification timelines, and explicit overseas transfer consent or SCC-equivalent contracts for any AWS, GCP, or Azure region outside Korea. Where the operator already holds ISMS-P (Personal Information and Information Security Management System) certification, our WordPress build aligns with the ISMS-P control set so the next surveillance audit by KISA doesn't break. Member data export and deletion APIs are first-class endpoints, not retrofitted at audit.

Yes — these are the Korea-standard authentication paths and we ship them as a default for any Seoul-market member portal. Naver Login (OAuth 2.0 via NAVER Developers) and Kakao Login (OAuth 2.0 via Kakao Developers) cover the consumer-facing baseline used by Coupang, Toss, and most Pangyo platforms. PASS (operated by SKT, KT, and LG U+) is the mobile-carrier-based identity layer used for high-trust verification including age verification under youth protection rules. NICE Identity and KCB are the credit-bureau-backed identity verification paths used by financial institutions under FSC rules. Our WordPress integrations use the official SDKs, never store passwords directly, ship explicit PIPA consent flows for the identity provider's data sharing, and produce a documented user provisioning narrative for the operator's IT security team. For chaebol IR sites where investor identity matters, we add Capital Markets Act-aligned audit logging on top of the identity layer.

Korean web typography has specific requirements that generic WordPress themes ignore. We default to Noto Sans KR, Pretendard, or Spoqa Han Sans Neo as the body font (each has clear OFL licensing and excellent Hangul coverage), with proper line-height adjustment (Korean characters need more vertical breathing room than Latin), word-break rules tuned for Hangul (CSS word-break: keep-all for prose, normal for headings, with explicit zero-width spaces where editorial design demands), and font subsetting through Google Fonts Korean subsets or self-hosted woff2 with unicode-range. Korean editorial design also leans on specific accent fonts (Yangjin, GmarketSans, KCC for K-content brands), and we set up the WordPress theme to ship those as theme.json font families with clear fallback chains. Headlines use larger sizes than Western themes because Korean characters carry more visual weight per glyph. The block editor (Gutenberg) ships custom blocks for K-tone editorial patterns like 인터뷰 (interview) and 칼럼 (column) layouts.

AWS ap-northeast-2 (Seoul) is the natural default — it puts compute and storage inside South Korea, latency to chaebol HQ campuses in Gangnam, Pangyo, Yeouido, and Magok sits in single-digit milliseconds, and PIPA residency analysis is dramatically simpler when data stays in-country. GCP asia-northeast3 (Seoul) is the equivalent for operators standardised on Google. Azure Korea Central (Seoul) plus Azure Korea South (Busan) is the Microsoft-aligned pattern with native intra-Korea failover. Naver Cloud Platform is the domestic hyperscaler preferred by some chaebol IT groups and most public-sector operators under MOIS guidance — we ship to NCP when the operator's procurement requires it. CDN through CloudFront, Cloudflare, or Naver Cloud CDN with KRW-priced pricing. For K-content portals serving global fandoms, we layer Cloudflare or CloudFront on top of the Korea origin and pre-render heavily so US, JP, EU, and SEA fan traffic doesn't blow up origin egress on Hybe-class launches.

Yes. The Korea Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (KWCAG) 2.2, maintained by KCC and the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, are the accessibility baseline for any government, public-institution, and most chaebol IR sites in Korea (KRX-listed companies are increasingly held to KWCAG-equivalent standards by FSC and FSS guidance). Our WordPress themes ship with KWCAG 2.2 AA-aligned heading structures, ARIA roles, keyboard navigation, focus states, contrast ratios (4.5:1 for body text, 3:1 for large text), screen-reader compatibility tested against NVDA, JAWS, and the Korea-specific Sense Reader, captions for video content, and the WA-Mark certification readiness package that the National Information Society Agency (NIA) operates. Editorial workflows enforce alt-text on every image upload, and the block editor ships KWCAG-aware blocks. We coordinate with the operator's accessibility lead during user acceptance testing and produce the KWCAG audit report in the format NIA expects for the annual public-sector accessibility certification.

A typical chaebol enterprise WordPress build (Samsung, LG, Hyundai-Kia-class brand portfolio site with FSC disclosure-aware IR module) takes eighteen to thirty weeks from kickoff to production, assuming clean editorial scope and a single KR-EN-JP-CN multilingual axis. Week 1 to 4 is discovery, PIPA data inventory, ISMS-P alignment review, brand and editorial design, and KWCAG 2.2 baseline check. Week 5 to 12 is theme or headless frontend build, custom post types and editorial workflows, identity integration (Naver Login, Kakao Login, NICE Identity for IR), and Korean editorial UX with Hangul typography passes. Week 13 to 20 is multilingual rollout, content migration from the legacy CMS (often classical Sitecore, Adobe Experience Manager, Drupal 7, or an in-house ASP.NET stack), and ap-northeast-2 production environment setup with cross-region failover. Week 21 onward is user acceptance testing with chaebol comms and IR teams, accessibility certification with NIA, and staged launch coordinated around earnings cycles and KRX disclosure calendars.

Most novel CMS engineering and digital platform work may qualify for Korean R&D and digitalisation funding programs administered by the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT), the Institute for Information and Communications Technology Promotion (IITP under MSIT), and the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS). The Digital New Deal portfolio funds digital transformation projects for SMEs and mid-tier companies, the AI Voucher and Data Voucher programs cover specific R&D inputs, and KOTRA's KGSP (K-Global Startup Program) supports Korean startups expanding overseas with platform work. For chaebol-affiliated work, internal R&D budget is the dominant funding path. For K-content portals, KOCCA (Korea Creative Content Agency) operates content-export funding that sometimes covers platform engineering. We deliver bilingual narratives, time-tracked logs, and the technical-uncertainty documentation IITP and KIAT program officers expect. Final eligibility sits with the funding administrator and your Korean corporate counsel.