I’ve watched it happen more times than I can count.
A foreign company enters Korea.
Strong launch event. Rooms full of people. Fast sign-ups.
Three months later – silence.
The leaders churned. The groups dissolved. The momentum that looked so promising disappeared almost overnight.
And headquarters is left asking the same question every time:
What did we do wrong?
The answer is almost never the product, never the compensation plan, never the team.
It was a pedagogical mismatch: the rigid, individualistic onboarding process effectively stunted their growth instead of integrating them into the system.
Korea is not a market of independent decision-makers. It’s a market of pre-formed, loyalty-bound groups — already organized, already led by someone else. Until you understand how to work with that structure instead of against it, the churn cycle never stops.
I wrote this down.
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