Best Freight Forwarders Companies in South Korea
The 31 best Freight Forwarders companies in South Korea in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Hanjin Kal.
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Our analysis of 100 Freight Forwarders companies
$9.9b in tracked funding; 81% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2021.
Ranked: Best Freight Forwarders companies in South Korea
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hanjin Kal Aviation services provider | $951M | 50 mo ago | Public | Cho Choong-hoon Founder | 2013 | JavaNginxjQuery Migrate+3 | — | — |
| 2 | ARGO Provider of eCommerce delivery management solutions | $18M | 15 mo ago | Series B | — | 2019 | Envoystyled-componentsReact+9 | 14 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 3 | HOWSER App-based platform for booking furniture forwarding and storage services | $822K | 80 mo ago | Seed | — | 2015 | — | 2 patents Furniture logistics buffering and remote execution services for delivery and assembly | — |
| 4 | Hyundai Merchant Marine An integrated logistics company | — | 78 mo ago | Acquired | Kyung Kim CEO | 1976 | YouTubeAmazon ALBAmazon Web Services+14 | — | — |
| 5 | Intergis Intergis Co Ltd is total solutions logistic company in South Korea. | — | 134 mo ago | Public | Jung Won Woo CEO | 1956 | — | — | — |
| 6 | bag station Bag Station provides travel luggage storage and shipping services. | — | — | Private | — | 2018 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Busan International Distribution Company Provider of logistics services catering for regions such as Asia, Americas, Europe, and Africa. | — | — | Acquired | — | 2006 | — | — | — |
| 8 | CJ Logistics Provider of sea, air & road transportation and logistics services | — | — | Public | Shin Kang Co-CEO | 1930 | WordPressZohoMySQL+24 | 260 patents Automated logistics robotics and AI-driven supply chain management systems | — |
Top 5 Freight Forwarders companies in South Korea
#1
Series B · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2019 · 71 employees$18Mraised▾
Provider of eCommerce delivery management solutions. It offers solutions for eCommerce order management, warehouse management, transportation management, supply chain management, delivery management, real-time tracking, and more.
- Jul 2025Series B—
- Feb 2024Series B$9.5M
- 2021Series A—
- Dec 2020Seed—
#2
Public · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2013 · 27 employees$950.8Mraised▾
Hanjin Kal is a provider of aviation services. Through its own fleet, the company offers services for passenger and freight transportation.
- Aug 2022Post IPO$22.8M
- Mar 2022Post IPO$460.1M
- Dec 2020Post IPO$451.2M
- Mar 2020Post IPO—
#3
Seed · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2015 · 85 employees$822.4Kraised▾
Provider of logistics services intended to solve the logistic problems faced by small and medium-sized households. The company's services include construction and installation services, furniture pick-up services, forwarding services, storage services, sales agency services, and other related services, helping clients to solve the difficulties in the value chain while providing optimal construction and delivery services.
- Feb 2020Seed$822.4K
#4
Acquired · Seoul, Seoul · founded 1976 · 293 employees—raised▾
hyundai Merchant Marine is an integrated logistics company. It operates around 130 state-of-the-art vessels all over the world. It began with three VLCCs in 1976, since which it has strengthened its competiveness to new services such as bulk carrier, tramper, container carrier, LNG carrier and special product carrier. It has four international head-quarters, 27 subsidiaries, 76 branches, five overseas offices and 10 liaison offices. In 2022, the company recorded annual revenues of $14.38B and a net profit of $7.78B.
#5
Public · Busan, Busan · founded 1956—raised▾
Intergis is a provider of logistics and transportation services. The company offers services for stevedoring, container shipping & logistics, bulk export-import, multi-modal freight forwarding, inland transportation, customs clearance, warehousing, and more. Additionally, the company also offers ship management & fueling services to the marine industry.
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Freight Forwarders coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Logistics & Supply Chain Tech is moving in South Korea
A read on the academic research around Logistics & Supply Chain Tech — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 42 South Korea-affiliated papers.
- Chang'an University7
- Dongguk University5
- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology3
- Dong-A University3
- Seoul National University2
- Fleet management3
- Reinforcement learning1
- Purchasing1
- Energy (signal processing)1
- Energy management1
- Fleet management3→5
- Biofuel1
- Supply chain optimization1
- Supply chain management1
- Waste management1
- Transport engineering1
Where logistics supply chain is researched across South Korea
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing logistics supply chain patents in South Korea
South Korea logistics supply chain patent filing is accelerating — 500 filings from 561 assignees (2016–2025), led by KRRI, Hyundai, CJ Logistics; annual filings 46→63.
- KRRI28
- Hyundai17
- CJ Logistics12
- Bumchang Engineering9
- Samsung8
- VTOV7
- KIA6
- Korea Electronics Telecomm6
Common questions
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