South Korea’s visa types are:
1. Diplomatic and official (A-1, A-2)
Diplomatic (A-1): Diplomatic Passports for persons traveling to South Korea to perform diplomatic duties and their accompanying family members.
Official duties (A-2): Personnel holding official passports who go to South Korea to perform official duties and their accompanying family members
2. Temporary interview (C-1)
- Personnel dispatched by relevant Chinese news, radio, magazine and other media to conduct short-term interviews, reports and other activities
- Personnel assigned to conduct short-term interviews and reports according to contracts with Chinese media
- Personnel visiting Korea for a short period of time to establish a foreign media branch in Korea
3. Short-term visit (C-3)
(1) Short-term general (C-3-1)
- Participate in friendly competitions, various activities or meetings
- General training
- Visits to relatives, etc.
- Visits to employment technical educators
- Spouses and children of Korean citizens
- Language training
(2) General sightseeing (C-3-9)
- Group Travel
- Individual Travel
(3) Medical Tourism (C-3-3)
- Medical Tourism (C-3-3): Those who have not been invited by Korean foreign patient reception organizations but wish to enter the country for the purpose of treatment or recuperation at Korean medical institutions.
- Medical Tourism (G-1-10): Spouses and other accompanying family members who need to enter Korea to take care of patients.
(4) Short-term business (C-3-4)
- First-time applicants: market research, business liaison, negotiation, contract signing, and learning the installation and maintenance of import and export equipment Those who visit South Korea for short-term visits for , maintenance, operation and other similar purposes.
- Eligible candidates for simplified materials: those invited by central administrative agencies and local governments; those invited by Korean listed companies; those who have been issued a visa more than once and have normally visited the United States, Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and EU members Those from the country and South Korea; those invited by the headquarters or branch.
(5) Pure transfer (C-3-10)
-Transit visa, when traveling to a third country via South Korea
4. Short-term employment (C -4)
Those who engage in short-term employment activities for profit-making purposes such as short-term performances, advertisements, fashion models, lectures, lectures, research, and technical guidance.
5. Study Abroad (D-2-1 to D-2-6)
(1) Bachelor’s to Doctoral Courses (D-2-1 to D-2-4) :
Those who intend to study in an educational institution above a junior college in Korea, those who have been admitted to a Korean accredited university, or government scholarship recipients.
(2) Specific research course (D-2-5)
As a person who intends to engage in specific research activities in a Korean academic research institution, is admitted to an accredited university and receives a government scholarship winner.
(3) Exchange students (D-2-6)
Those who are selected as exchange students based on the exchange agreement signed between Korean and Chinese universities and plan to study at an accredited university Personnel.
6. Language training (D-4-1)
Only those admitted to accredited universities in Korea (including universities with an illegal residence rate of less than 1), government Scholarship recipients and exchange students
7. Trade Operations (D-9)
-According to the
- According to lt;Foreign Investment Promotion Actgt; private owners who have declared foreign investment and been issued an investment enterprise registration certificate with a registered capital of more than 300 million won.
8. Job hunting (D-10)
In order to obtain employment in teaching (E-1), conversation guidance (E-2), research (E-3), technical guidance (E -4) Applicants who are employed in specialized occupations (E-5), artistic performances (E-6), or specific activities (E-7) and wish to conduct related training or job hunting activities (but hotel and entertainment lt; E-6- 2gt; except events).
9. Visiting and residing (F-1)
Parents of minor international students who are preparing or currently studying in educational institutions below high school.
10. Residence (F-2)
Spouse and minor children of permanent residence status (F-5) holders.
11. Accompanying (F -3)
D-1, D-2, D-4, D-5, D-6, D-9, E-1 to The spouse and unmarried children under the age of 20 of the E-7 status holder.
12. Marriage immigration (F-6)
(1) Citizen spouse (F-6-1)
Married to a Korean and living in both countries When a Chinese citizen who has completed marriage registration with the household registration department intends to stay in South Korea for a long time for the purpose of living with his Korean spouse***.
(2) Persons raising children (F-6-2)
Do not meet the F-6-1 application qualifications, but want to raise a minor born in Korea to a Korean citizen The child’s father or mother
13. Compatriot visit (C-3-8)
Foreign nationality compatriots under 60 years old
14. Interview and assignment , corporate investment (D-5, D-7, D-8) and accompanying family members (F-3)
(1) Interview (D-5): To the established branch or branch in Korea When dispatching reporters.
(2) Deployment (D-7): Working for more than one year in a foreign public agency, organization or company head office, branch, or other business office, and as a branch in Korea , subsidiaries, offices, or persons sent to Korea as professionals (senior managers, senior executives, experts) designated by the Minister of Justice as necessary for series companies.
(3) Enterprise investment (D-8): According to the provisions of the "Foreign Investment Promotion Act", necessary professionals (senior management) who intend to serve in the operation, management or production and technology fields of foreign-invested enterprises personnel, senior executives, experts).
(4) Accompanying family members (F-3): spouses, minor children, parents and accompanying persons of those interviewed (D-5), stationed (D-7), and corporate investors (D-8) Spouse parents.
15. Compatriots abroad (F-4)
(1) F-4-13: Culture and art (D-1), interview (D-5), trade operation (D-9), Teaching (E-1) and Specific Activities (E-7) qualifications who have stayed in Korea for more than 6 months.
(2) F-4-14: Students who have graduated from junior colleges (universities with a duration of more than two years) or above in Korea or abroad and students who have received scholarships from government agencies such as the Institute for International Education Promotion.
(3) F-4-15: Those who have obtained permanent residence in OECD countries.
(4) F-4-16: Legal person enterprise representatives, registration personnel and management-level employees.
(5) F-4-17: Individual businesses (self-employed) with annual sales of more than US$100,000 in the previous year.
(6) F-4-18: Senior cadres of multinational enterprises, senior cadres of the media and journalists, lawyers, accountants, doctors, first-level (equivalent to the level of university professor) and second-level recognized by the government of the host country (equivalent to university associate professor) artists, industrial technology research and development researchers, intermediate or above agricultural technicians, senior technicians in the field of shipbuilding or civil aviation.
(7) F-4-19: Representatives and deputy representatives of compatriot groups or cultural and artistic groups (associations) recognized by the host country.
(8) F-4-20: Former or current National People’s Congress deputies, civil servants and state-owned enterprise employees who have worked for more than 5 years.
(9) F-4-21: University professors (including associate professors and lecturers), primary school, junior high school and high school teachers.
(10) F-4-22: Those who plan to run individual businesses in South Korea.
(11) F-4-25: Those who are over 60 years old.
16. High-value investors (F-5)
According to the Foreign Investment Promotion Act, those who invest more than US$500,000 in South Korea and employ more than 5 Korean citizens Person
17. Visiting for employment (H-2)
(1) Visiting for employment for reasons (H-2-1): Korean citizens or permanent residents with a place of residence in South Korea Relatives within 2 inches invited by the applicant (foreign compatriots who meet the requirements for obtaining nationality as stipulated in the Nationality Law and have obtained permanent residence status)
(2) Visiting employment applicants (H-2-5): Log in After applying on the website (Hikorea), you will be selected as a visitor employment visa applicant based on the Ministry of Justice’s computer lottery.
(3) Re-entry of persons who have left the country for visits and whose employment has expired (H-2-7).