Companies in Seoul, South Korea that want to employ engineering talent in India without opening a local entity can use Pitch N Hire as their Employer of Record. PNH legally employs each hire on your behalf and manages payroll, tax, benefits and statutory compliance, so a Seoul business can build a compliant offshore team quickly and focus on the work rather than the paperwork.
An Employer of Record (EOR) is a company that legally employs workers on your behalf in a country where you have no entity, taking on payroll, tax withholding, benefits, contracts and statutory compliance while the worker delivers under your day-to-day direction. Pitch N Hire's EOR strength is India: it lets a business anywhere hire and retain Indian engineering talent compliantly — with correct employment contracts, payroll and provident-fund/tax handling — without registering an Indian subsidiary. This removes the cost, delay and legal risk of setting up a foreign entity, and pairs naturally with staff augmentation when you want PNH to both source and employ your offshore team.
You identify the person you want to employ in India — either someone Pitch N Hire sourced for you, or a candidate you found yourself who you want employed compliantly.
PNH issues a locally-compliant Indian employment contract with the correct terms, benefits and statutory entitlements, so the engagement is legally sound from day one.
The employee is onboarded onto PNH's Indian payroll, with tax, provident fund and benefits configured correctly — no Indian entity or local finance function needed on your side.
The employee works under your day-to-day direction, in your tools and process, while PNH remains the legal employer of record for compliance purposes.
PNH runs monthly payroll, tax filings, statutory contributions and HR administration, and keeps everything compliant as regulations change — you get a report, not a paperwork burden.
As your Employer of Record in India, Pitch N Hire takes on the full employment burden:
Seoul concentrates the vast majority of South Korea's technology employment, from chaebol R&D and Samsung's software arms to platform giants Naver and Kakao, the Pangyo Techno Valley gaming and startup cluster, and a rising crypto-and-fintech sector. Demand runs hot for backend, mobile, AI and platform engineers, and the biggest employers pay top of market — so smaller firms and scale-ups struggle to compete head-on for senior talent.
Seoul talent is strong in mobile, gaming, large-scale platform engineering, AI and semiconductors, with graduates from SNU, KAIST and Yonsei feeding the top employers. Skills run deep in Java, Kotlin, backend systems, C++/Unreal and increasingly ML. The constraint is often language and availability: engineers comfortable operating in English-first international teams are a smaller slice, which is a common reason Seoul teams blend in offshore capacity.
Seoul carries Korea's highest developer pay, with senior software engineers often in the region of KRW 70M–130M+ per year at leading firms, before bonuses and stock. Offshore augmentation from India typically delivers comparable seniority at a materially lower blended cost, which is why budget-conscious Seoul startups often run a local core plus an offshore engineering pod.
For Seoul founders and engineering leaders, the fastest route to added capacity is often an offshore pod: PNH sources and vets India-based engineers, and because India is about 3.5 hours behind KST, the pod overlaps the morning-to-midday stretch of the Seoul workday for stand-ups and live collaboration. Employment and compliance are handled through PNH's Employer of Record, so there is no Korean entity to set up.
You can engage Pitch N Hire in whichever way fits your Seoul team's stage and workload — and mix them as you scale:
A pre-screened India talent pool means matched shortlists in days, not the months a local permanent hire can take.
You interview and choose every person; Pitch N Hire surfaces qualified candidates and handles the operational load.
Offshore hires are employed through PNH's India Employer of Record — payroll, tax and statutory compliance are taken care of.
Building part of your team offshore keeps comparable seniority on the roster at a lower total cost than local-only hiring.
Engineers work on overlapping working hours and inside your tools and sprints — collaboration, not black-box outsourcing.
Staffing, recruitment, EOR and the ATS/interview software come from one provider, so hiring stays joined-up as you scale.
Staffing and recruitment services, the applicant tracking software, and hiring resources — all in one place.
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