Submit Your Visa Application for South Korea

F-1: Visiting and Staying with Relatives

• Those who come to visit their relatives or stay with their family member.
• Housekeepers working for diplomatic and consular personnel in Korea or foreign investor who has invested more than 500,000 US dollars.
• Those residing with a Diplomacy(A-1), Official MIssion(A-2) or Negotiation(A-3) status holder

F-2: Residency

• Spouse of a Korean national or a permanent residence status (F-5 visa) holder.
• Those who are granted Refugee Recognition.

F-3: Family Dependency

Spouse or unmarried children under 20 of:

• Culture/Art(D-1)
• Study(D-2),
• General Training(D-4)
• Press Coverage(D-5)
• Religious Affairs(D-6)
• Intra-Company Transfer(D-7)
• Corporate Investment(D-8)
• Management(D-9)
• Professor(E-1)
• Foreign Language Instructor(E-2)
• Reserch(E-3)
• Technological Guidance(E-4)
• Special Profession(E-5)
• Culture/Art(E-6)
• Specially designated Activities(E-7) status

F-4: Overseas Koreans

• Those who had Korean nationality in the past, but have since acquired nationality of another country.
• Those with a non-Korean nationality who has at least one parent or grandparent who is Korean or had Korean nationality in the past.

D-1: Culture/Art

• Those participating in a non-profit artistic or academic activity.
• Those researching or being trained by the expert of Korean cultural tradition or art.

D-2: Overseas Study:

Those seeking standard high level education (bachelor, master or doctor) or engagement in specific research at a college, university or graduate school set up under provisions of the ‘Education Law’ or at an educational facility set up under the provision of the related special law.

D-4: General Training

• Those studying Korean language at a university-operated language institute.
• Those being educated in educational facilities other than academic research organizations or educational organizations that fall under overseas study(D-2) status.
• Those learning technology or skills at a national or public research organization.

D-5: Press Coverage

Those collecting news materials or engaging in reporting activities while staying in Korea who are dispatched by or under contract with a newspaper, broadcasting station, magazine, or other forms of the media of a foreign origin.

D-6: Religious Works

• A person who is dispatched to the related Korean religious organization or branch by the foreign religious body or social welfare organization.
• A person who is willing to engage in social welfare activities invited by Korean religious body or social welfare organ.

D-7: Intra-Company Transfer

Those who:

• Has worked for more than a year for the headquarters, a branch, or any other establishment by a public institution, organization or company of a foreign origin
• Are now being dispatched as a specialist at the branch office, subsidiary or supervising office of foreign company in Korea or an interrelated company appointed by the Minister of Justice of Korea.

D-8: Corporate Investment

A specialist participating in administration / management or production / technological development of a foreign investment company as outlined by the「Foreign Investment Promotion Act.

D-9: Trade Management

• A specialist dispatched to a public or private organization in Korea for installation, operation and repair of imported machinery or supervising production of industrial facility
• A specialist wishing to establish and manage a company in Korea or engage in trades or other profitable businesses

C-1: Temporary Press Coverage

Those seeking participation in temporary news coverage or reporting activities.

C-3: Temporary Visit

Those seeking short term stay for travel/transit, medical treatment, visiting relatives, a major sporting event, attending conferences, various cultural or artistic events, religious ceremony, or other similar reasons (For non-profit purposes only)

C-3-4: Temporary Business

Those seeking short-term stay for market research, liaison, observation, consultation, contract, installation / repair/ inspection / operation of machinery for import / export, or any such similar purpose.

C-4: Temporary Employment

Those seeking temporary employment such as short-term entertainment, advertisement, fashion model, lecture, research or technical training, etc.