What should a dive centre in South Korea run on?

Seogwipo's islets and the Jeju season

Jeju is a UNESCO biosphere reserve with more sea than land in it, and its best-known diving is around Munseom, Beomseom and Seopseom off Seogwipo: soft-coral walls, a short boat ride from the harbour. The main season runs through summer and autumn, with fewer divers and colder water in winter.

DiveOps plans each boat from the bookings, grouped by guide, with a year of dive-site pairings and a weather fallback for each day and live weather and tide for your exact spot, so a blown-out morning is a quick swap rather than a round of phone calls.

Registration, equipment and safety briefings

Under the Act on the Safety and Promotion of Underwater Leisure Activities, anyone who runs an underwater leisure business must register it, and operators must make sure participants wear their equipment and receive safety education. Night activity is restricted unless set safety equipment and safety staff are in place.

DiveOps logs rental gear and cylinders against each diver with servicing reminders, keeps staff certificates with expiry warnings, and records each diver's certification and medical form, filled in on the phone before they arrive. DiveOps does not register a business or make it compliant; it keeps the records together so they are there when asked for.

Courses, pool sessions and the shop

Many Korean centres run pool training in the city and open water weekends on Jeju or the east coast. DiveOps tracks each student's course progress to instructor sign-off, whichever agency you teach under, from SSI and PADI to NAUI and CMAS, and pool sessions, boat trips and shore dives sit in the same daily plan. The shop till, staff rosters, payroll, reports and double-entry books are in the same login.

A WhatsApp front desk for visitors from abroad

Korean divers mostly message on KakaoTalk, and DiveOps does not answer there. Visitors from abroad and foreign residents often use WhatsApp. For them, DiveOps' WhatsApp AI answers on your centre's own number through the official Meta Business API, in the diver's language, replies in under 2 minutes, handles around 92% of routine questions itself and sends your booking link. A person at the centre confirms every booking and can take over any chat.

Your currency, payments and one plan

DiveOps runs each centre in one currency, set when you join. You can price in US dollars or euros today; if you price in won, ask about it on your demo. Payments can be taken by payment link with PayPal where it is available to you, or recorded at the desk. Centres get roughly 8 hours a week of admin back.

DiveOps is one plan with every feature, priced by the number of divers you run through the year. Book a demo and see it set up against your own boats, pool and staff.