How can I accept payments in South Korea without a business license?

Shopify Apps

Topic summary

A merchant in South Korea seeks payment solutions that don’t require a business license, as Shopify Payments and Stripe aren’t directly available in the country. PayPal is currently their only option.

Initial Challenge:

  • Most payment gateways listed for South Korea require a legal business and business license
  • The merchant has already attempted to open merchant accounts with available gateways without success

Proposed Solution:

  • Easy.Pie for Shopify app enables South Korean payment acceptance through a Stripe US account
  • Supports local wallets: Kakao Pay, Naver Pay, Samsung Pay, PayCo
  • Accepts local cards, Visa/Mastercard, Apple Pay, and Google Pay in KRW
  • Does not require a local business entity

Current Status:

  • South Korean payment methods are now available for Stripe accounts in EU, HK, UK, and US
  • At least one other merchant confirmed facing the same issue
  • The discussion remains open with merchants exploring this workaround solution
Summarized with AI on October 31. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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Hi.

In my country(SKorea), Shopify payments and stripe aren’t available. Now all i can use is Paypal. I tried to open merchant account from almost all payment gateways which shows on Shopify gateway for my country, and all of them required a legal business and business license.

What can i do to accept payments ?

Is there any method that doesn’t require legal business?

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Hi there, @Dury !

We do have a lot of payment gateways available for our merchants in South Korea, not just Paypal. You can see a full list of them here.

I also have a guide here on how to go about adding these gateways to your stores. I hope this helps!

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Thanks.

Payment gateways in this list are mostly for business that has business license. But i need once that doesn’t require license like Shopify payments and Stripe.

(I already tried to open merchant account from all of these showed on list:)

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Did you manage to fix this issue? I’m facing the same problem here

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It is now available via Stripe with Easy.Pie for Shopify, if you have a Stripe US account you can accept wallets (Kakao Pay, Naver Pay, Samsung Pay, PayCo) and all local cards in South Korea in KRW without a local entity.

In KRW, it also supports credit debit cards like Visa Matercard etc., Apple Pay and Goole Pay.

Youtube Preview Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_ex93D0N3A

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I will try this, thanks. These South Korean payment methods appear to be available in my Stripe settings. I think this solution will work, right?

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South Korean payment methods now available for Stripe EU, HK, UK and US accounts.

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