The Consultation · 2026
A consultation of the Irish corporate community in the Republic of Korea, opening in late June 2026. Its findings will inform the Chamber’s first white paper to the Office of the Foreign Investment Ombudsman.
What this is
KICCI convenes the Irish corporate community in Korea on the conditions of doing business in this corridor, gathers its collective view through structured consultation, and carries that view into the institutions that shape the operating environment.
This is the Chamber’s first such consultation. It opens in late June 2026 and closes in the early autumn. Its findings will inform the Chamber’s first formal white paper, Irish Business in Korea: Operating Conditions, Market Access, and Bilateral Friction, which the Chamber will submit to the Office of the Foreign Investment Ombudsman of the Republic of Korea (외국인투자 옴부즈만 사무소, Oegugin Tuja Ombudsman Samuso, OFIO), the institutional point at which foreign-invested companies in Korea raise what statute alone cannot resolve.
Who we are consulting
The consultation is addressed to Irish-affiliated companies operating in or trading with the Republic of Korea, in any mode of presence: established subsidiaries, branch and representative offices, companies trading through a Korean distributor, and direct exporters.
It reaches further than the conventional reading. Irish brands manufactured in Korea, and the Irish-origin products carried into the market by others, are within its scope. A chamber that convenes all of them represents the corridor as it runs.
What the Chamber asks
What you receive in return
Your protections
The default attribution is sector-level: “an Irish medical-device manufacturer with a Korean subsidiary established before 2020”. A company is named only with the written consent of someone authorised to give it; an individual is named only with their explicit written consent.
Where a case is distinctive enough that sector-and-role attribution would identify the company, it is composited across respondents or held back from publication. The respondent who shares with the Chamber shares with an institution bound to these protections.
Process & timeline
The consultation runs through the summer and into the early autumn, allowing for the limited availability of respondents over the holiday months. The Chamber synthesises the findings thereafter, and the white paper drafts through the closing months of the year, with its intellectual-integrity and tone audits applied before publication.
The paper in full
The full Consultation Paper sets out where the corridor stands in 2026, the corporate community the Chamber represents, and the methodology and protections that govern the consultation.
Read the paper (PDF)Companies that have not received a direct invitation by the end of June 2026, and that consider themselves Irish-affiliated within the Chamber’s working definitions, are warmly encouraged to write to the Chamber.