Welcome to SBA KOREA
SBA KOREA is a strategic business agency based in Seoul, Korea, that provides business development services for overseas clients. Our activities revolve around and intersect Tradeshows and the lifestyle industry, including fashion and textiles, connecting brands and manufacturers with distributors and retailers.

Thanks to our experience over two decades, we have a diversified professional network and in-depth industry knowledge from various angles.
We are passionate about always doing the right thing for our clients and communities, identifying their highest-value opportunities, addressing their most critical challenges, and transforming their businesses. 

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Our Background

The market today is changing more quickly than ever, adapting to different environments from one time to another and from one place to another. This change has created a trend, for which each economic player has no choice but to be adopted to be sustainable in the marketplace, wherever we are and whatever industry we belong to

The business environment around us is becoming increasingly complex and segmented, directly impacted by consumers who are becoming more intelligent and sophisticated. The traditional business model can not maintain a successful business, and it can not be sustainable.

Faced with this complex environment, one clear strategy for today’s business is “To do the business in globalized and localized way”, whatever their business volume and positioning and wherever their headquarters are.

Motivated by the changing environment, Geun Jik LEE founded SBA(Strategic Business Agency) KOREA in early 1999 to be the localized business agency in Korea for overseas clients. We have carried out various business development and management missions for French and European companies. Our main objective is to bring the most optimized local services to overseas clients, whether SME(Small and Medium Enterprises) or VSE(Very Small Entity), who wish to develop their market in Korea and surrounding countries.

With a diversified professional network and in-depth knowledge of industrial trade fairs, especially in fashion and textiles, we proudly work on business development, tradeshows marketing, and public relations, which are optimized together.  
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Our Organization

SBA KOREA is a professional team headed by Geun-Jik LEE and Eun-A YU, having diversified local human and professional network in Korea and surrounding countries: from brands and manufacturers to distributors and retailers, and from government bodies to professional associations. We collaborate with a diverse range of professionals from various backgrounds, which are significant assets: marketing, retail, brand management, strategy, design, category-specific sales, product development, legal, and finance.

Geun-Jik LEE 
Has over 25 years of experience in business development. Before founding SBA KOREA, he served as the Sales and Marketing Director of OTIS Korea, a company within the UTC group. He also spent nine years in France working for DAEWOO ORION / DAEWOO ELECTRONICS /  DAEWOO GROUP. He graduated in economics from the University of Paris VIII in France and from KPU in Korea.

Eun-A YU
With over 28 years of experience in the fashion and trade show business, Eun-A Yu began working as a local representative of PV (Premiere Vision) in Korea and joined SBA KOREA as a founding member. As a project manager, she has managed various projects for fashion brands and trade shows, including Paco Rabanne, Rochas, Charles Jourdan, M&O, and Who’s Next. She is a graduate in fashion from Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne in France.