In April 2022,
I went back to Canada.
With a sample book,
basic tools,
and five rolls of vinyl wrap film.
That was everything.
You don’t need inventory at all.
Get paid first.
Then order the film.
What I needed to start
was surprisingly simple:
Solid installation skills.
A sample book.
A used car (a Toyota Corolla was enough).
An Instagram account.
That was it.
No pickup truck.
No office.
No employees.
No marketing agency.
In fact,
I once paid a marketing agency
over $2,000.
It was a complete waste.
They didn’t understand marketing.
They just copied what others were doing.
I learned the hard way—
running Instagram myself
was more than enough.
As soon as I arrived in Vancouver,
I started calling and texting
Korean renovation contractors.
I contacted around 70.
20 showed interest.
The other 50?
Barely working.
Some answered the phone
while watching TV at home.
Here’s what I kept hearing:
“We needed vinyl wrap before,
but no one could do it properly.”
“We tried it years ago.
The quality was terrible.
If you trained in Korea,
I’ll give you a shot.”
“Going to Korea to learn this?
That’s actually impressive.”
“Since COVID, renovation costs exploded.
Wrapping saves clients 70–80%.”
I couldn’t believe it.
I was literally dancing.
My original plan
was never to focus only on Korean clients.
Simple reason—money.
Korean markets
have lower price ceilings.
But in the beginning,
I had no choice.
I just needed
to get the business moving.
Selling to Canadian contractors—
who had never even heard of vinyl wrap—
would take time.
At least a year.
But Korean contractors?
They already understood.
All I had to say was:
“I do vinyl wrap.
I trained in Korea.”
That alone
was enough.
For the first three months,
I followed up once a month.
Calls.
Texts.
To survive,
I drove Uber.
Then—about a month in—
I finally landed
my first job.
A kitchen cabinet wrap.
That’s when
I hit a real problem.
I had no idea
how to price vinyl wrap work
in Canada.
Seoul Interior Film 
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