Combine the official 2026 confirmation fee with internal preparation and optional costs, then test verified tax, finance, and commercial benefits over the 36-month validity.
The published VAT-inclusive fee is selected from the route and new or reconfirmation status.
Add only planned internal time and optional spending to the official company burden.
Include document preparation, interviews, and on-site assessment support.
Use the employer opportunity cost rather than take-home pay.
This is separate from the confirmation fee and is not mandatory.
Confirmation does not create benefits automatically. Enter only separately verified eligibility and amounts.
Enter only amounts whose eligibility has been verified by a tax adviser.
Use contribution after variable costs, not gross revenue.
Reduce this conservatively when the entered benefit is not certain.
0 starts immediately; 6 starts from month 7.
Total company cost
KRW 455,000
Official burden + internal time + optional direct cost
Expected benefit over 36 months
KRW 0
100% realization applied
Net benefit over 36 months
-KRW 455,000
ROI -100%
Simple payback
Not recovered
Not recovered within validity
| Item | Amount |
|---|---|
| Total confirmation fee | KRW 605,000 |
| Government support | -KRW 150,000 |
| Official company burden | KRW 455,000 |
| Internal preparation time | KRW 0 |
| Optional direct cost | KRW 0 |
| Total company cost | KRW 455,000 |
These are route-comparison summaries. The professional assessment body decides eligibility from submitted evidence.
| Type | Key requirement | Result notice |
|---|---|---|
| Venture investment | At least KRW 50 million invested and 10% of capital, or 7% for cultural-content producers | 30 days |
| Research and development | At least KRW 50 million annual R&D plus the industry revenue ratio; ratio exception for startups under three years | 45 days |
| Innovation growth | Professional assessment of technology innovation and business growth potential | 45 days |
| Preliminary venture | Technology innovation and business-plan assessment before company or business registration | 45 days |
The status commonly called venture business certification is legally operated as venture business confirmation in South Korea.
An applicant pays a published confirmation fee for the selected route, while its founders and employees also spend time assembling evidence, preparing interviews, and supporting an on-site assessment.
Optional consulting, document systems, travel, and remedial work can add cash spending, so the published company burden is only the beginning of a realistic budget.
This calculator selects the current VAT-inclusive fee for the venture-investment, research-and-development, innovation-growth, or preliminary-venture route.
It adds internal opportunity cost and optional direct spending, then applies a user-entered realization rate to separately verified tax, financing, commercial, and other benefits over the 36-month confirmation validity.
It never assumes that confirmation automatically creates a tax saving, loan approval, procurement award, or new sale.
The current Act changed its English-relevant short description and Korean title through legislation effective July 1, 2026, and the calculator uses the law and decree in force on August 2, 2026.
Fee support budgets, system notices, tax rules, and individual support programmes can change after that verification date.
Recheck every amount and eligibility condition on the actual application and tax filing dates.
The Venture Confirmation System publishes a total assessment fee, a government-supported portion, and the amount borne by the applicant.
The calculator treats the company burden as the official cash cost because the support is already netted from the total fee.
Do not enter that supported portion again as a benefit, or the model will count the same support twice.
| Confirmation route | Application | Total fee | Support | Company burden |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture investment | New | KRW 275,000 | KRW 100,000 | KRW 175,000 |
| Venture investment | Reconfirmation | KRW 275,000 | KRW 50,000 | KRW 225,000 |
| Research and development | New | KRW 495,000 | KRW 150,000 | KRW 345,000 |
| Research and development | Reconfirmation | KRW 495,000 | KRW 50,000 | KRW 445,000 |
| Innovation growth, standard | New | KRW 605,000 | KRW 150,000 | KRW 455,000 |
| Innovation growth, standard | Reconfirmation | KRW 605,000 | KRW 50,000 | KRW 555,000 |
| Inno-Biz-linked innovation growth | New | KRW 440,000 | KRW 150,000 | KRW 290,000 |
| Inno-Biz-linked innovation growth | Reconfirmation | KRW 440,000 | KRW 50,000 | KRW 390,000 |
| Preliminary venture | New | KRW 495,000 | KRW 150,000 | KRW 345,000 |
| Preliminary venture | Reconfirmation | KRW 495,000 | KRW 50,000 | KRW 445,000 |
| Preliminary-to-innovation within one year | Reconfirmation | KRW 330,000 | KRW 50,000 | KRW 280,000 |
A discounted route is not available merely because it is selected in the calculator.
Verify current Inno-Biz linkage and preliminary-venture timing conditions before relying on the lower fee.
Article 22 of the Venture Business Confirmation Guidelines places the fee ceiling at KRW 700,000 and provides the framework for payment, reductions, and refunds, while the live system notice supplies the route-specific amount.
The Enforcement Decree generally requires qualifying investment of at least KRW 50 million and at least 10% of stated capital.
The capital ratio can be 7% for a qualifying cultural-content producer.
Confirm that the investor and instrument qualify, the investment has been paid, and the capital denominator is measured correctly rather than relying on the contract label alone.
The official system gives a 30-day result-notice period for this route.
This route combines research-organization conditions with at least KRW 50 million of qualifying annual research and development expenditure.
It also applies an industry-specific revenue ratio whose general reference is 5%, so the detailed industry table matters.
A business less than three years from startup can fall within an exception to the revenue-ratio requirement, but other requirements remain.
The official system gives a 45-day result-notice period.
This route is useful when a technology business does not rely on the investment or R&D quantitative path.
A professional body assesses technology innovation and business growth potential using the business plan, differentiation, market evidence, growth strategy, and management capability.
The Inno-Biz-linked fee can apply only when the current linkage conditions are met.
The official system gives a 45-day result-notice period.
This route assesses the technology innovation and plan of a founder preparing to start before company or business registration.
Incorporation, business registration, and later conversion to innovation-growth confirmation have their own steps and timing requirements.
A separate reconfirmation fee is published for conversion within one year after preliminary confirmation.
The official system gives a 45-day result-notice period.
Article 25 of the Special Act on the Promotion of Venture Businesses governs the confirmation application and permits the confirmation body to charge a fee.
Article 18-4 of the Enforcement Decree sets the confirmation validity at three years, which is why the calculator uses 36 months as its analysis window.
The calculator does not score eligibility, assess submitted evidence, or predict the professional assessment result.
Internal time cost equals total preparation hours multiplied by internal hourly cost.
Additional cash cost equals optional consulting, document and system preparation, travel, and other direct cost.
Total company cost equals the published company burden plus internal time cost plus additional cash cost.
Government support is not subtracted again because the company burden is already the net official fee.
Entered annual benefit is the sum of verified annual tax savings, financing savings, commercial contribution, and other annual benefit.
Expected annual benefit multiplies that total by the realization rate.
Active benefit time equals 36 months minus the selected start month, and recurring benefit uses that fractional number of years.
The same realization rate is applied to the one-time verified benefit before recurring and one-time amounts are combined.
Net 36-month benefit equals expected benefit minus total company cost.
ROI divides that net benefit by total company cost, while the benefit-cost ratio divides gross expected benefit by total company cost.
Simple payback first applies expected one-time benefit, then divides the remaining cost by monthly expected recurring benefit and adds the benefit start delay.
It is an undiscounted planning model and does not reproduce tax payment dates, lending disbursements, or monthly sales volatility.
The confirmation body does not invoice internal preparation hours, but those hours still consume scarce founder and employee capacity.
Include time for selecting the route, checking legal requirements, reconciling investment or R&D records, drafting the business plan, organizing intellectual-property and sales evidence, preparing interviews, and responding to assessment requests.
If several employees participate, sum person-hours rather than elapsed calendar hours.
An hourly cost can combine salary, employer payroll burden, benefits, and the value of displaced work.
A rough internal rate is better than treating all employee time as free, but document how it was derived.
Keep this economic cost separate from cash spending when the application budget is also used for liquidity planning.
When a consultant performs document drafting, do not also assign the full drafting time to employees unless both genuinely work those hours.
When a system purchase includes implementation support, separate only the employee effort that remains internal.
A clear work breakdown makes competing internal and external preparation approaches comparable.
Article 6 of the Restriction of Special Taxation Act contains income-tax or corporate-tax relief for a qualifying startup venture small or medium enterprise.
The current provision includes timing such as startup by December 31, 2027 and venture confirmation within three years after startup, along with industry, location, exclusion, and qualifying-income rules.
A qualifying case can use a 50% relief structure for specified tax years, but confirmation alone does not establish the deduction or the amount.
Article 58-3 of the Restriction of Special Local Taxation Act contains a 75% acquisition-tax reduction for qualifying business property of an eligible startup venture.
Its property-tax structure can provide exemption for the first three years and a 50% reduction for the following two years when every condition is satisfied.
Startup date, confirmation deadline, qualifying industry, location, direct use, disposal, and recapture conditions all need review with the local authority or adviser.
Enter only the expected annual amount remaining after a tax professional has reviewed the taxpayer, income, asset, period, and interaction with other relief.
Do not enter the full pre-relief tax bill, a marketing headline, or the value of years that fall outside the 36-month analysis window.
If eligibility is unresolved, leave tax savings at zero and retain a separate upside scenario.
A programme can give a venture business priority, a higher limit, a lower interest rate, or a guarantee-fee preference.
These terms differ by institution, product, budget year, credit assessment, collateral, use of proceeds, and application window.
Estimate financing savings from the approved or quoted rate difference and expected outstanding balance, not from the entire loan principal.
Confirmation may be an eligibility condition, an evaluation preference, or a credibility signal in a public or private opportunity.
It does not replace price, performance, references, delivery capability, or other tender conditions.
Count only accessible opportunities supported by a tender clause, customer requirement, or documented sales evidence, then use contribution rather than revenue.
The Venture Business Act contains special provisions relevant to leave or concurrent work by professors and researchers and to stock options.
Corporate approvals, eligible recipients, grant terms, tax treatment, and employment rules still require separate professional review.
Do not convert a recruiting narrative into a cash benefit unless the business can identify an evidenced saving or contribution.
Article 9 of the Enforcement Decree of the Patent Act can place a patent application by a venture-confirmed business within a priority-examination category.
The applicant must still follow the applicable request and evidence process, and priority does not guarantee grant or validity.
Enter a financial benefit only when faster examination has a documented commercial value that is not already counted elsewhere.
Check whether the investor and security are qualifying and whether KRW 50 million and the capital ratio are both satisfied.
Use the venture-investment fee and 30-day notice period only after that review.
Model tax or financing value separately so an ineligible benefit does not distort the low confirmation cost.
Reconcile accounting research expense with the expenditure recognized for the confirmation route and check the industry revenue ratio.
Include finance and technical staff time needed to trace payroll, materials, outsourced research, and research-organization records.
Use zero for tax benefits until the startup-relief requirements have been reviewed independently.
Budget sufficient internal time for a clear business plan, technology evidence, customer validation, and growth logic.
Compare internal preparation with an itemised consultant proposal rather than assuming that consulting guarantees a positive assessment.
Test a zero-benefit case to determine whether confirmation remains affordable when commercial upside is delayed.
Use the preliminary route for the immediate budget, then model incorporation and later innovation-growth conversion as a separate decision.
Confirm the one-year conversion window before selecting the KRW 330,000 reconfirmation total fee.
Avoid entering corporate tax or property benefits before the future entity, activity, asset, and timing requirements are known.
Certification is a common informal English description, while the Korean legal and system terminology is venture business confirmation.
The fees, routes, and three-year validity in this calculator refer to that official confirmation regime.
No.
The fee supports the confirmation and assessment process, while the applicant still needs to satisfy the legal route and professional assessment.
It does not insure against an unsuccessful application or evidence request.
No.
Consulting is not a statutory prerequisite, and a consultant cannot guarantee the assessment outcome.
Leave the input at zero when the team prepares internally, or enter only a selected itemised proposal.
The table describes the supported portion of the confirmation fee rather than a general cash grant for the applicant.
The calculator already starts from the net company burden, so entering the same support as a benefit would double count it.
No.
Article 6 relief depends on startup timing, confirmation timing, industry, location, qualifying income, exclusions, and other conditions.
Keep the tax input at zero until an adviser has estimated the amount applicable to the particular taxpayer and year.
The confirmation validity is three years under the current Enforcement Decree.
Some benefits can have their own longer or shorter statutory period, but the model avoids assuming status or benefit continuation beyond the current confirmation.
Analyse post-reconfirmation periods separately with the rules and fee then in force.
A potential amount can be explored as a scenario, but label it clearly and lower the realization rate to reflect uncertainty.
The primary decision case should use benefits supported by a tax review, lender indication, programme notice, customer clause, or other evidence.
Never present the calculator output as an approval, entitlement, or guarantee.
Sources were checked on August 2, 2026 in Korea Standard Time.
This page is an educational budgeting and sensitivity tool, not legal, tax, accounting, financing, patent, or application advice.
The confirmation body, tax authority, local authority, programme operator, lender, customer, and professional adviser remain responsible for their respective decisions.
Start with the official company burden, add defensible internal hours and selected direct spending, and enter only benefits supported by current eligibility and amount evidence.
Save the inputs with their sources, compare a zero-benefit case, and recheck the live system notice, law, tax year, and programme terms before making the decision.