Seoul, South Korea
AI development for Seoul teams, handed over in writing
One shop, Vancouver, British Columbia. Seoul sits on the other side of a full day, so nothing about this engagement runs on meetings. It runs on written handoffs, logged decisions and review that happens while the other side is asleep.
- base
- vancouver, bc, canada (UTC-08:00)
- market
- Seoul, South Korea
- your clock
- UTC+09:00 (Asia/Seoul)
- overlap
- none on the same date, written handoff instead
- presence
- remote only, no office in Seoul
No shared working day, so the loop is written
Seoul is 17 hours ahead of Vancouver. When we start at 09:00 it is 02:00 on the next day for you, and when we stop at 17:00 it is 10:00 on the next day. On the same calendar date there is no hour where both sides are at work.
There is a real cost and it is worth naming: an answer to a blocking question can take a working day to reach you. We handle it by sending the proposed answer with the question, so silence means agreement rather than a lost day.
- The Vancouver day ends with a written summary: shipped, broken, blocked, and the one thing we need you to decide.
- That summary is waiting at 10:00 your time, alongside the diffs it refers to.
- The decision log lives in the repository rather than in a chat thread, so it is still readable a year later.
- Anything that would block us gets asked as a proposal you can approve in a sentence, not as an open question.
One live call a week, and it is scheduled honestly: 16:00 in Vancouver is 09:00 in Seoul on the next day. Neither side takes a bad hour for that one. The call simply lands on two different calendar dates, which is a scheduling detail rather than a hardship.
What Seoul buyers usually bring us
The record for Seoul lists two industries. Here is the part of each one that turns into an engagement, and the service line it lands under.
semiconductors
Verification and tooling repos are enormous and slow, so the first work is feedback speed and scoped rules, not a model upgrade.
The deliverable is committed to your repository. Context files, path-scoped rules, and checks an agent can run against its own output.
Closest service line: Codebase and team optimization
consumer electronics
Device telemetry, support systems and firmware release tooling all need integrating before anything smart happens, and each one has its own failure modes.
Business rules become typed tools with explicit contracts, because a rule that lives in a prompt is a rule that drifts.
Closest service line: Forward-deployed engineering
Contracts, currency and where the data sits
Invoices are in US dollars. Where the system runs is decided early, because retrofitting a deployment target after the build is the expensive way to learn.
The rest is the same everywhere: we scope it, we build a thin slice against your real data, and we hand back something your own team can maintain. No retainer you cannot cancel and no seat licences.
The five lines we sell
Same five lines everywhere, Seoul included. Most engagements are one of them, sometimes two.
- AI products, built end to end
- Knowledge bases and retrieval
- Codebase and team optimization
- Training and enablement
- Forward-deployed engineering
The languages, models and infrastructure underneath all five are listed on the Magic Ship stack page, with what each one is good for and where it is the wrong choice.
Other markets in Asia
Each one has its own page, its own overlap arithmetic and its own industries.
Start a project
Send the problem rather than a job spec. You get an answer on scope, timeline and whether we are the right shop, written by the person who would do the work.