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Why should foreign employees in Korea stop assuming the 19% flat tax and the foreign-engineer reduction are the same kind of perk?
Expats in Korea often hear recruiter talk about special tax treatment and then mentally merge every foreign-worker preference into one bucket. Please explain why the 19% flat-tax election and the foreign-engineer style reduction are different policy tools, and why job function and eligibility facts matter more than broad expat identity.
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