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Sora Studio

Brand and product design for startups launching in Korea and Japan

🇰🇷 Seoul · Founded 2019 · 2‚Äì10 people

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Sora Studio is a design studio of seven people in Seoul. We help startups that are entering Korea or Japan look local from day one: naming checks, brand identity, app and website design, and launch materials in Korean and Japanese. Most of our clients are founders from outside Asia.

Services

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Launch identity

A brand that works in Korean and Japanese, in four weeks.

Who it's for: Startups entering Korea or Japan

  • Name and trademark check in both languages
  • Logo, colours and type system
  • Brand guide and launch kit
From $12,000Enquire
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Product design sprint

App or website screens localised for Korean and Japanese users.

Who it's for: Product teams with a live product

  • Two-week sprint
  • Local user tests in Seoul and Tokyo
  • Figma files and hand-off
From $8,000Book a call
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Design retainer

A senior designer two days a week, for teams that need ongoing help.

Who it's for: Funded startups after launch

  • Two days a week
  • Monthly planning call
  • Cancel any month
$6,500 / monthEnquire

Customers

More than 60 startups from 14 countries, most of them launching in Korea or Japan for the first time.

Some of our customers

Loopdesk
Pinecast
Tidewell
Northwind
Mapleframe
Brightlane
Quillo
Fernhouse
“They caught that our name meant something awkward in Japanese, two weeks before launch.”
Laura Bennett · Founder, Pinecast
“Our Korean landing page converted twice as well as the English one after their sprint.”
Minji Park · Founder, Loopdesk

Partners

Referral partners

3

Send us clients, and we send them back.

Openfor
SeoulHub
TokyoLaunch

Traction

Updated Aug 2026

Since 2019 we have designed launches for more than 60 startups from 14 countries, and most new projects come from client referrals.

In the last twelve months we delivered 18 launch identities and 11 product sprints, and four clients moved on to a monthly retainer.

Funding

Bootstrapped

Funded by customers and the founders, with no outside investment.