How to Report an Instant Sale Manufacturing and Processing Business — Requirements for Opening a Side-Dish Shop or Using a Shared Kitchen

Procedure

1. 1. Decide how you will sell

   If you sell directly to consumers at the shop or by parcel delivery, it is an instant sale manufacturing and processing business. If you also supply distributors or sell on consignment through a platform, it is subject to registration as a food manufacturing and processing business. If you already run a general restaurant and want to package and sell side dishes separately, add an instant sale manufacturing and processing business report.

2. 2. Check the use of the premises

   Check that the use shown in the building register is one in which the business is allowed, such as a neighborhood living facility. As a rule, a report cannot be filed for a residential home. Check this before the lease contract and interior work to avoid redoing the construction.

3. 3. Sanitation education and health examination

   A new business operator takes food sanitation education (6 hours) and attaches the certificate of completion to the report form. Workers who cook or sell must have a health examination before the business starts.

4. 4. Submit the report form

   Submit the report form together with the manufacturing method statement, the facility layout plan and other documents to the sanitation department of the competent city, county or district office. After the facility standards are checked, the business report certificate is issued.

5. 5. Prepare for online sales

   To sell online, file a separate mail-order business report and label the packaging with the product name, date of manufacture, use-by date and other required items.

Required documents

• Business report form
• Certificate of completion of food sanitation education
• Manufacturing method statement, facility layout plan
• Lease contract or documents showing the right to use the building
• When using a shared kitchen: the use contract with the shared kitchen operator

Fees

The business report fee is 28,000 won for an in-person filing and 25,200 won for an electronic filing, regardless of the type of business. At Hwang Yunsang Administrative Office, the service fee for a food business report starts from 300,000 won (VAT excluded). It varies depending on whether the work also covers the facility review and the mail-order business report, and we will advise on it after a consultation.

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Legal basis and review date

• Enforcement Decree of the Food Sanitation Act, Article 21
• Enforcement Decree of the Food Sanitation Act, Article 25
• Enforcement Rule of the Food Sanitation Act, Article 42
• Enforcement Rule of the Food Sanitation Act, Article 52
• Enforcement Rule of the Food Sanitation Act, attached Table 17
• Enforcement Rule of the Food Sanitation Act, attached Table 26

Checked against the statutes on 2026-09-30

Statutes and public notices change, so each case needs to be checked individually. Statute titles are given in English for reference. The Korean statutes are the authoritative text.

Check these first

• Before the lease contract and interior construction, first check the building use and the facility standards.

Frequently asked questions