A statutory 1,550kW ceiling makes Korea's smallest electrical customers the only ones worth holding.

Starting capital for this edition is ₩661,955 [$500 USD at 1,323.9094, the xe.com mid-market rate quoted 24 October 2026 11:48 UTC]. The target is ₩6,619,547 a month [about $5,000 USD], or ₩79,434,564 a year.

The consensus reading of Korean electrical safety management is that it is a wage job with a licence attached: you pass 전기기사, you join a 대행업체, you are handed a route, and the industry is a permanent price war. The price-war half is documented and true. The rest inverts once you read who the statute actually rations, and in which unit.

Start with the price, because in this trade the price is a published number. 「전기안전관리법 시행규칙」 제32조: "법 제22조제7항에 따른 안전관리업무의 대행 대가는 「엔지니어링산업 진흥법」 제31조에 따른 엔지니어링사업의 대가 기준 중 실비정액가산방식에 따라 산정한다" ["the fee for delegated safety-management work under Article 22(7) of the Act shall be calculated by the actual-cost-plus-fixed-rate method among the engineering-business fee standards under Article 31 of the Engineering Industry Promotion Act"]. The 2026 전기설비 엔지니어링 표준품셈, published for the year and reported by 전기신문 on 28 January 2026, prices the smallest low-voltage site at ₩142,476 excluding VAT, up ₩7,805 on 2025's ₩134,671. Every band rose by the same 5.80%: ₩332,425 to ₩351,692 at 저압 500kW, ₩223,979 to ₩236,962 at 고압 100kW, ₩1,206,372 to ₩1,276,292 at 고압 1,000kW. That uniformity is the tell. Nobody re-measured the work; a single escalator was applied to a schedule the state now owns.

Which matters because of who used to own it. On 28 February 2011 전기신문's 김병일 reported that the trade association had built its own fee table in the early 2000s, that the 공정거래위원회 treated it as collusion and sanctioned the association, and that with no standard left the market bid itself down: 한국전기안전공사 had guaranteed roughly ₩100,000 a weight point, agencies were charging ₩50,000–70,000, and bids at ₩30,000 a point were common — about ₩1,800,000 a month for a technician's full 60-point book, which one industry figure said could not cover an office, an assistant, tax and insurance. The 2026 schedule prices the same smallest site at ₩142,476 for 0.8 points, which is ₩178,095 a point. The number a trade body was punished for publishing is now published by a ministry, at 5.9 times the dumping floor.

Now the ceiling nobody prices. 시행규칙 제26조 gives 안전공사 and a 대행사업자 facilities "둘 이상의 전기설비 용량의 합계가 4천 500킬로와트 미만" ["where the capacities of two or more electrical facilities sum to under 4,500 kilowatts"] with each 전기수용설비 "용량 1천킬로와트 미만". For an individual, 제26조제2호: "둘 이상의 용량의 합계가 1천 550킬로와트 미만인 전기설비로 한정한다", each 전기수용설비 "용량 500킬로와트 미만". 별표 9 then caps a company's technician at 78 points and the individual at 60. So the statute hands the employee of a firm 2.9 times the kilowatt allowance it hands the person working alone, and the allowance — not the point budget, not the site count — is what runs out first.

Spend that allowance badly and it is worth almost nothing. A 500kW low-voltage site returns ₩351,692 for 500 of your 1,550 kilowatts: ₩703 per kilowatt of allowance. A 20kW site returns ₩142,476 for 20: ₩7,124. Ten times the yield, for the customers every 대행업체 treats as not worth the drive. That is the trade. The arithmetic to the target is unforgiving and short: ₩6,619,547 ÷ ₩142,476 = 46.46, so 47 sites, and 1,550 ÷ 47 means every customer must average under 32.98kW. Above that, no amount of effort gets a solo 개인대행자 to $5,000 a month, because the ceiling, not the market, has taken it away.