Corthay x Rolls-Royce Busan
At the southern edge of Korea, where the land meets the sea, two brands came together around a shared idea: bespoke.
INSPIRING MOMENTS
On 13 September 2026, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Busan invited 96 of its owners and their guests to Namhae for Inspiring Moments, a curated golf experience on the southern coast. Corthay joined them for the day.
The occasion fell in the year Rolls-Royce marks ten years in Busan. In May, the brand reopened its showroom in Haeundae with a dedicated Atelier, where clients explore the colours, woods and leathers of a Bespoke commission.
Inspiring Moments took that same spirit onto the golf course, from morning until the late-afternoon light settled over the sea. It brought together two approaches to craftsmanship shaped around the individual.
BESIDE THE PHANTOM
Rolls-Royce and Corthay start from the same place. Neither brand asks its clients to choose from objects that are already finished. Both begin with the wishes of one person.
That idea set the scene. Under the clubhouse’s curving concrete canopy, a Phantom stood above a still reflecting pool, with the sea and its islands beyond. Corthay shoes were set around it on tall fluted pedestals: a deep red in front of the Spirit of Ecstasy, a bottle green, a black calf laced in red. Each pair caught the same light as the car.
COLOUR, BY HAND
Inside, a Corthay patina artist set up a table of brushes, cloths and small glass bottles of pigment. In front of the owners, the artist built colour on the leather by hand, one thin layer after another, deepening an olive green toward the toe and around the heel.
Patina is central to the Corthay signature. Because every layer is laid by hand, no two pairs come out alike, and no pair can be reproduced exactly. The live demonstration drew the owners in at once.
MADE FOR ONE
Corthay bespoke follows the same logic as a Rolls-Royce commission. Each pair begins with the client’s own feet, measured in person, and a last made for that person alone. Every step that follows answers to it.
Bespoke has been at the heart of Corthay since 1990. In Korea, the brand welcomes its clients at its boutique in Cheongdam, Seoul.
