About WeBring Connect

Who runs this site

This site is operated by 주식회사 위카코퍼레이션 (brand: WeBring). WeBring runs services for foreign residents in 13 languages — insurance, visa expiry calculation, hospital interpretation, Korean lessons, employability checks — and Connect is the information and community part of it.

Service

WeBring Connect (connect.webring.kr)

Operated by

주식회사 위카코퍼레이션 (brand: WeBring)

CEO

Miyoung Cho

Business registration

742-81-02381

Address

8, Gangnam-daero 53-gil, Seocho-gu, Seoul (Rm 8-178), Korea

Phone

070-8027-4391

Email

mycho@webring.kr

How the content here is made

Not everything here comes from the same place, so each kind is marked and you can tell which you are reading.

• Guides written by the operating team — bylined WeBring and reviewed by the person who runs the related service.
• Editorial persona questions — situations that came up repeatedly in consultations, written up as questions by the editorial team. Their byline carries “Editorial Persona” and the disclosure is repeated at the end of the question. Most of the questions on this site were made this way.
• Answers — answers are published under the operator's name, WeBring. Advice about visas, insurance and healthcare carries responsibility, and who answers for it matters more than whose name is on it.
• Posts from members — a question or answer written by a member appears under that member's nickname, or as Anonymous when they chose that.

Where the questions come from

WeBring runs insurance, visa and hospital-companion services itself, and the same questions come back again and again. The editorial team writes up the situations that apply to more than one person, and the colleague who runs that service writes the answer.

We do not publish what was said in a consultation as it was said, because it would identify someone. A visa type, a length of stay and a workplace in one post are enough for a reader — and for the people around them — to work out who is being described. So several people's cases are combined and rewritten as a single question.

That means a question here is not one person's story but several of them together, and an answer is not one person's experience but the company's position. Read them that way: the details of your own case will differ, and anything with a deadline or an amount attached should be confirmed with the authority that decides it.

Who reviews it

Miyoung Cho, the CEO, has supported international students and foreign workers settling in Korea on the ground together with universities and public institutions, and designs and runs WeBring's services from that experience. On insurance she advises directly as a Registered insurance agent (PA) with DB Insurance · licence no. 23065460.

That fieldwork includes the year-round cultural programme for Kwangwoon University language students, on-site operation of Seoul's STA★R in Singapore talent event, Kangwon National University's Tokyo startup expedition, and the ISF job fair for international students.

What this information cannot do

Everything here is for orientation. Visa requirements, premiums and administrative procedures change, and so does how each office reads them. Confirm anything you are about to act on with the authority that decides it — HiKorea (1345), the National Health Insurance Service (1577-1000), or your district office.

Check the date on the page you are reading, and confirm with the authority when a deadline or an amount is at stake. WeBring provides information and connects you to a consultation; it is not a party to any individual contract.

If something here is wrong

Tell us. Send the page address to mycho@webring.kr and we will check it, correct it, and show the date of the correction on the page. The report button on each post reaches us too.