Best Travel and Hospitality Companies in South Korea
The 81 best Travel and Hospitality companies in South Korea in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: JEJU AIR.
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Ranked: Best Travel and Hospitality companies in South Korea
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | App-install YoY | Market signals (1y) | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | JEJU AIR Operator of passenger airlines | $1.3B | 45 mo ago | Public | — | 2005 | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | H2O Hospitality Provider of hotel management services | $37M | 57 mo ago | Series C | John Lee Founder & CEO | 2015 | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | Dable Personalised content discovery platform | $20M | 65 mo ago | Acquired | Seung-kook Baek Co-Founder & CSO | 2015 | — | — | 11 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 4 | Yeolmae Operator of art gallery | $14M | 50 mo ago | Series B | Jaewook Kim CEO | 2016 | — | — | 5 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 5 | Stay Folio Owns & operator hotels and resorts | $12M | 22 mo ago | Series A | — | 2014 | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | Handy's Provider of accommodation management services | $11M | 45 mo ago | Series A | Seung-Ho Jeong CEO | 2018 | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | Amo Travel Operator of adventure travel and tours | — | 26 mo ago | Seed | John Co-Founder | 2023 | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | Coffeeting Online platform offering blind dating services | — | 27 mo ago | Seed | Shin Sid Co-Founder | 2023 | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 Travel and Hospitality companies in South Korea
#1
Series A · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2014 · 62 employees$12.2Mraised▾
Owns & operator hotels and resorts
- Jul 2024Series A—
- Dec 2022Series A$7.7M
- Jul 2021Series A$4.5M
#2
Public · Jeju-si, Jeju-do · founded 2005 · 2833 employees$1.3Braised▾
Operator of passenger airlines
- Sep 2022Post IPO$230M
- Aug 2020Post IPO$1.1B
#3
Series C · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2015 · 23 employees$37Mraised▾
Provider of hotel management services
- Sep 2021Series C$30M
- Feb 2020Series B$7M
- Sep 2016Seed$1.5M
- Nov 2015Seed$1M
#4
Series A · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2018$11Mraised▾
Provider of accommodation management services
- Sep 2022Series A$8.9M
- Mar 2021Seed$1.8M
- May 2020Seed$270K
#5
Series B · Asan, Chungcheongnam-do · founded 2016$14Mraised▾
Operator of art gallery
- Mar 2022Series B$14M
#6
Acquired · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2015 · 119 employees$20.5Mraised▾
Dable is a personalized content discovery platform which offers news & product discovery services. Dable News, a news aggregator which partners with media companies and offers personalized content to users. Claims to use machine learning techniques to recommend results. Provides dashboards for partners to see the results in real-time & change settings.
- Jan 2021Series C$12M
- Feb 2019Series B$5.3M
#7
Seed · South Korea · founded 2023—raised▾
Operator of adventure travel and tours
- Mar 2024Seed—
#8
Seed · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2023—raised▾
Online platform offering blind dating services. The company offers a platform for users to like and connect with potential partners for blind dating. Users can matchmake with like-mimded people and invite for coffee dating.
- Mar 2024Seed—
#9
Seed · Busan, Busan · founded 2018—raised▾
Le Musée is an art management company specializing in contemporary Korean art, with galleries located in Busan, Seoul, and Paris. They represent over 30 Korean artists.
- Jan 2024Seed—
#10
Seed · Busan, Busan · founded 2012—raised▾
Operator of galleries
- Aug 2023Seed—
#11
Acquired · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2017 · 27 employees—raised▾
Operator of passenger airlines
- Mar 2021Series A—
#12
Public · Gangseo, Yeongnam · founded 1962 · 18330 employees—raised▾
Korean Air is a South Korean flag carrier headquartered in Seoul. Offers passenger and cargo transportation services through its own fleet of airplanes. It is the founding member of SkyTeam, an airline alliance and was also awarded the 'Asia's best airline' by Business Traveler in 2012. In 2022, the company recorded annual revenues of $10.91B and a net profit of $1.33B.
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