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Launching in Korea

Ordering opens when Gaia Iluka launches in South Korea in mid-November 2026. Subscribe to The Gaia Iluka Letter to hear when it does.

Explore the range

Good food. Your take.

A small circle of creators bringing Gaia Iluka from Samos to tables in Korea. Cook with it, write about it, film it. The work is yours.

How it works
Gaia Iluka Original extra virgin olive oil in its terracotta 500ml bottle with a wooden cap

Start with the bottle.

Every creator we approve receives a bottle of Gaia Iluka Original. Cook with it first; the ideas tend to follow.

  • 500 ml, in dark glass
  • Grown in Koumeika, Samos
  • Cold extracted

Ideas, not assignments.

A few ways in. Make what you would make anyway.

  • A man reaching for bread at a tasting table of olive oil bottles and dried flowers inside the Markou factory on Samos, a woman beside him.

    First pour, no recipe.

    Bread, salt and the oil. Your honest first reaction.

  • Korean table, Samos oil.

    Finish a fried egg, tofu, namul or gim with it.

  • A woman and a small boy tasting bread and olive oil at a table of bottles at the Markou factory on Samos.

    Taste it with someone.

    Family or friends trying it for the first time.

  • Market run to plate.

    A market haul that ends in one dish.

  • Two men and two small boys under an olive tree in Koumeika, one boy reaching up into the branches.

    Where it's from.

    The grove, the family and the harvest, told from the facts we supply.

  • One bottle, one week.

    The same oil across a week of everyday cooking.

Whatever you make, the ground rules apply. Read them

How we talk about it.

Creator work will appear here as the Circle grows.

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What you would be introducing already comes from somewhere.

Gaia Iluka Original is grown in Koumeika, on the island of Samos. The bottle then travels a long way to be opened at a table in Korea.

  • Olive groves across the hills of Samos, a village and the sea in the distance.
    Olive groves · Samos
  • Both families standing together in the shade of a large olive tree at the Markou house in Koumeika, Samos.
    Both families · Koumeika
  • A man and a woman at a tasting table of olive oil bottles and dried flowers inside the Markou factory, pressing machinery behind them.
    Tasting · at the mill
  • A candlelit dinner table at night on Samos, people gathered around glasses and plates.
    Dinner · Samos
  • Korea Where it's opened.

A note from Chef Max

I cook with this oil at Iluka, my restaurant in Jeonju, and my guests were the first to ask where it came from. That is the only kind of recommendation I trust. Taste it, cook with it, and tell people what you honestly think.

Apply, and if it fits, the rest is straightforward.

  1. Apply

    Tell us about your work. We read every application ourselves.

  2. Create

    Cook with it, write about it, film it. The work is yours.

  3. Earn

    When someone buys Original olive oil through your link, you're paid monthly.

The work is yours.

We ask for honesty, not ownership.

The ground rules

  1. Disclose the affiliate relationship clearly, every time.
  2. No health or medical claims.
  3. No invented technical claims. Acidity, polyphenols, awards, certifications and laboratory results only where we have supplied them.
  4. No misleading pricing or discount claims.
  5. Never speak as Gaia Iluka.

Tell us how you would introduce it.

The Circle is selective and small. Write to us with your work and the way Gaia Iluka would genuinely appear in it. We read every application ourselves.

  • Only your email is required.
  • Applications are read by us, not by a system.
A man in a white shirt and sunglasses tasting something from his fingertips under the olive trees in Koumeika, Samos.
Tasting · Koumeika
Join the Circle

Tell us about your work.

Only your email is required. Everything else is optional. Answer what is true, and leave the rest.

You
If it is different from your own.
Where your work lives
One is enough. Leave the others empty.
Your audience
Size, or who they are. Follower count is not what decides this.
A country is enough.
Recipes, restaurants, food writing, something else.
Gaia Iluka
In your own words. This is the part we read most carefully.
On what, and when. An oil is used before it is written about.
A recipe, a video, an essay, a series: whatever you actually make.
Optional.
If any. It is not required.
What happens next

This reaches us as an application, not an account: nothing is created automatically, and no link or code is issued by sending it. We review applications ourselves, selectively. Creators we approve receive their personal Creator Circle link and code separately, once approved.