A : Official Duties
B : Short-term Stays without Visa
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- B-2-1 : General transit without visa
- General transit without visa
- B-2-2 : Jeju-island transit without visa
- Jeju-island transit without visa
- B-2-3 : Flight attendant transit without visa
- Flight attendant transit without visa
- B-2-4 : Limited transit without visa
- Limited transit without visa
- B-2-91 : Individual PyeongChang Olympic Visa holder
- Individual transit without visa(except Non-professionals and Ship crewman
- B-2-92 : PyeongChang Olympic related merchandise buyer
- Olympic tourism-linked products through exclusive travel agencies in China.
- B-2-93 : Ordinary passport holders of china related to PyeongChang Olympic
- Ordinary passport holders of Chinese official business
- B-2-94 : Southeast Asia group tourists
- Group tourists of 5 or more from Southeast Asia(Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines)
- B-2-95 : Group of transit without visa of china YangYang
- Group tourists of 3 or more from china entering through YangYang airport
C : Short-term Stays
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- C-3-1 : General short-term
- Except C-3-2 ~ C-3-9
- C-3-2 : Group tour etc.
- Group tour etc.
- C-3-3 : Medical tour
- Medical tour
- C-3-4 : General commercial use
- General commercial use
- C-3-5 : Short-term commercial use under agreement
- Short-term commercial use under agreement
- C-3-6 : Short-term commercial use
- Short-term commercial use under invitation of preferential companies
- C-3-7 : Arrival tour
- Arrival tour
- C-3-8 : Foreign nationality Koreans visit
- Foreign nationality Koreans entering and leaving Korea multiple times within 90 days for 3 years
- C-3-9 : General tours
- General tours that are not included in C-3-2 or C-3-3
- C-3-91 : Metropolitan residents
- Multi-visa subdivided from C-3-91, c-3-9
- C-3-10 : Pure transfer
- People transferring from Korea to home or third country
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- C-4 : Short-term employment
- Short-term employment
- C-4-1 : Short-term Agriculture
- Short-term seasonal work for Agriculture(MOU Agriculture)
- C-4-2 : Short-term Agriculture
- Short-term seasonal work for Agriculture(Individual recommended Agriculture)
- C-4-3 : Short-term Fishery
- Short-term seasonal work for Fishery(MOU Fishery)
- C-4-4 : Short-term Fishery
- Short-term seasonal work for Fishery(Individual recommended Fishery)
- C-4-5 : Other short-term employment
- Other short-term employment(except seasonal works)
D : Non-Professional
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- D-2-1 : Associate degree
- Associate degree
- D-2-2 : Studying abroad for Bachelor's degree
- Bachelor's degree
- D-2-3 : Studying abroad for Master's degree
- Master's degree
- D-2-4 : Studying abroad for Doctor's degree
- Doctor's degree
- D-2-5 : Studying abroad for Research
- Specific researcher of an Academic Research Institute
- D-2-6 : Exchange Student
- Exchange Student
- D-2-7 : Affiliation of work and studying while Studying abroad
- Affiliation of work and studying while Studying abroad
- D-2-8 : Studying abroad for Short-term
- Studying abroad for Short-term
- D-2-S : Part-time working
- Part-time working
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- D-4-1 : Training at the Annexed Language school in university
- Training at the Annexed Language school in university
- D-4-2 : Other institution training
- Training at the other institutions except Annexed Language school in university
- D-4-3 : Elementary, Middle, High school students
- Students under high schools
- D-4-4 : Compatriot training
- Compatriot trainee without family or friends
- D-4-5 : Training of Korean cuisine
- Training of Korean cuisine
- D-4-6 : Training at private institution
- Training foreigners at excellent Private institution
- D-4-7 : Foreign language training
- Foreign language training
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- D-9-1 : Unique trade deals
- Trader assigned with unique number of trade business
- D-9-2 : Facility export
- Installation, operation and maintenance of exported facilities
- D-9-3 : Ship facility
- Supervision of manufacturing of ship construction facilities
- D-9-4 : Management of commercial business
- Managing business and Operating commercial business
- D-9-5 : Trade management from abroad studied person
- Trade management from abroad studied person
E : Long-term Employment
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- E-1 : Professor
- Professor: You are allowed to apply for an E-1 Professor visa if you are: A qualified foreigner who can teach or research at a community college or higher, as well as an institution at an equivalent level in accordance with the Higher Education Act. For example, - a professor at an educational institute such as the KAIST - a full-time lecturer at an education institute such as a community college or higher - a research professor in special fields at a university or a university research lab A technical expert in advanced science - a person planning to engage in fields such as education, science, and technology by teaching or researching at a community college or higher, and who is recommended by the Minister of Education, Science and Technology for employment
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- E-8-1 : Long-term Agriculture
- Long-term seasonal work for Agriculture(MOU Agriculture)
- E-8-2 : Long-term Agriculture
- Long-term seasonal work for Agriculture(Individual recommended Agriculture)
- E-8-3 : Long-term Fishery
- Long-term seasonal work for Fishery(MOU Fishery)
- E-8-4 : Long-term Fishery
- Long-term seasonal work for Fishery(Individual recommended Fishery)
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- E-9-1 : Manufacture industry
- Manufacture industry
- E-9-2 : Construction industry
- Construction industry
- E-9-3 : Agriculture industry
- Agriculture industry
- E-9-4 : Fishery industry
- Fishery industry
- E-9-5 : Service industry
- Service industry
- E-9-7 : Tourist hotel
- Tourist hotel
- E-9-95 : Recommended training in the past
- Industry trainee recommended by organizations in the past
- E-9-96 : Training employment in the past
- Training employment qualification holders in the past
- E-9-97 : Special employment in the past
- Special employment for non-professional foreign nationality Koreans in the past
- E-9-98 : Legitimated in the past
- Illegal immigrants after legitimated in the past
F : Long-term Stays & Family Relations
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- F-1-1 : Visit for cohabitation
- Visiting relatives, family cohabitation, dependents, to arrange affairs
- F-1-3 : Cohabitants of diplomats
- Cohabitant of non-family members of foreign officials in Korea
- F-1-6 : Marriage settle up
- Settle up marriage after divorce of marriage immigrants
- F-1-7 : Nationality appliance
- Nationality appliers
- F-1-5 : Family members of marriage immigration
- Parents and Family members of marriage immigrants
- F-1-8 : Legitimate birth children
- Children born in Korea of legitimate stayers
- F-1-9 : Compatriot's spouse etc.
- Spouse and under age children of F-4 visa
- F-1-10 : Senior compatriot
- Senior compatriots from China and Soviet Union
- F-1-11 : Children of employment visitor
- 19 years or younger children of H-2 visa
- F-1-12 : Family to reside together
- Spouse and under age children of F-2 visa
- F-1-13 : Parents of foreign student
- Parents of minor foreign student
- F-1-14 : Adopted foreigner
- Adopted foreigner
- F-1-15 : Parents of talented personnel
- Parents of talented personnel, talented investor and talented personnel in the master's and doctor's course
- F-1-16 : Family members of recognized refugees
- Spouse and under age children of recognized refugees
- F-1-21 : Housekeeping assistant for diplomats
- Housekeeping assistant for foreign officials in Korea
- F-1-22 : Housekeeping assistant for large investors
- Housekeeping assistant for large investors
- F-1-23 : Housekeeping assistant for high-tech investors
- Housekeeping assistant for high-tech investors
- F-1-24 : Housekeeping assistant for professionals etc.
- Housekeeping assistant for professionals etc.
- F-1-25 : Temporary relieved compatriot after 4th generation
- Temporary relieved compatriot after 4th generation
- F-1-28 : Family members of naturalized person
- Family members of naturalized person
- F-1-52 : Unadopted minors of midway immigrants
- Under age children from ex-marriage of marriage immigrants
- F-1-71 : Family members of nationality applicants
- Spouse, children of nationality applicants(foreign nationality Koreans)
- F-1-72 : Family members of permanent residency applicants
- Spouse, children of permanent residency(F-5-7) applicants
- F-1-99 : Other cohabitations
- Other cohabitations
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- F-2-2 : Children of Korean citizen
- Under age children of Korean citizen, a person who was born in a marriage with Korean citizen
- F-2-3 : Family members of permanent residency
- Spouse and under age children of permanent residency permit holder
- F-2-4 : Refugee
- Recognized refugees
- F-2-5 : Large amount investment
- Long-term staying foreigner(3 or more years) of large investors
- F-2-6 : Skilled worker
- Foreign worker with skilled production capability
- F-2-7 : High scorer of scoring system
- Excellent professional human resource according to the score system
- F-2-8 : Real-estate investment
- Real-estate investment immigrants
- F-2-9 : Permanent residency permit loss
- Loss of Permanent residency permit
- F-2-11 : Government affairs appointment
- Appointed person to government affairs
- F-2-12 : Public service investment
- Public service investment immigrants
- F-2-13 : Family members of public service investors
- Spouse and under age children of retired or current public service investment immigrants
- F-2-14 : Investor retirement immigration
- Immigrated investor after retirement
- F-2-71 : Family members of score system applied person
- Spouse and under age children of point system applied person
- F-2-81 : Family members of real-estate investment immigrant
- Spouse and under age children of real-estate investment immigrant
- F-2-99 : Other long-term stayer
- Other long-term stayer
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- F-4-11 : Overseas Korean himself/herself
- Unannounced overseas Korean
- F-4-12 : Lineal family members of overseas Korean
- Parents of unannounced overseas Korean
- F-4-13 : Not less than 6 months stayer of DE line
- DE stayer
- F-4-14 : University or college graduates
- University or college graduates
- F-4-15 : Permanent resident of OECD
- Permanent resident of OECD
- F-4-16 : Corporation representative etc.
- Corporation representative etc.
- F-4-17 : Entrepreneur of 100,000 dollars
- Entrepreneur of 100,000 dollars
- F-4-18 : Multinational enterprise
- Executives, board members etc. of multinational enterprise
- F-4-19 : Representatives of Compatriot association
- Representatives of Compatriot association
- F-4-20 : Public official
- Public official etc.
- F-4-21 : School teachers
- School teachers
- F-4-22 : Private businessman
- Private businessman
- F-4-23 : Frequent visitor
- Frequent visitor
- F-4-24 : Longtime employee in manufacturing business etc.
- Longtime employee in manufacturing business etc.
- F-4-25 : 60 years old or older
- 60 years old or older
- F-4-26 : Entrants before diplomatic relation establishment
- Entrants before diplomatic relation establishment
- F-4-27 : License, Certificate holders
- License, Certificate holders
- F-4-28 : -
- -
- F-4-99 : Other overseas Korean
- Other overseas Korean
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- F-5-1 : Long-term stayer
- 5 years or longer stayer in Republic of Korea
- F-5-2 : Spouse of Korean citizen
- Korean citizen
- F-5-3 : Children of Korean citizen
- Under age children of Korean citizen
- F-5-4 : Family members of permanent resident
- Spouse and under age children of permanent resident
- F-5-5 : Large amount investor
- Large amount investor employing 5 or more Korean citizens
- F-5-6 : Overseas Korean for 2 years
- 2 years or more stayer as overseas Korean
- F-5-7 : Required nationality condition satisfier
- Required nationality condition satisfier of compatriots with foreign nationality
- F-5-8 : Overseas Chinese
- Overseas Chinese born in Republic of Korea
- F-5-9 : Doctor's degree holders of high-tech industry
- Doctor's degree holders of high-tech industry
- F-5-10 : Bachelor's degree holders of high-tech industry
- Bachelor's degree holders of high-tech industry
- F-5-11 : Competence for specific field
- Specific field competence holders
- F-5-12 : Special credit
- Special contributor
- F-5-13 : Pension benefit
- Pension beneficiary
- F-5-14 : Working visit for 4 years
- Workers working in manufacturing industry etc. for 4 or more years with working visit visa
- F-5-15 : Domestic Doctor
- Getting doctor's degree by taking the regular course at graduate school in Korea
- F-5-16 : Score system
- 3 or more year stayer after getting residential qualification by score system
- F-5-17 : Real-estate investment
- Spouse and under age children of real-estate investor and him/her self
- F-5-18 : Family members of score system
- Spouse and under age children of permitted permanent resident by score system
- F-5-19 : Family members of real-estate
- Spouse and under age children of permitted permanent resident as real-estate investor
- F-5-20 : Birth of permanent resident
- Permanent resident's children born in Republic of Korea
- F-5-21 : Public service investment
- Maintain as public service investor for 5 or more years continuously
- F-5-22 : Family members of public service investor
- Spouse and under age children of permitted permanent resident as public service investor
- F-5-23 : Investor retirement immigration
- Immigrated investor after retirement
- F-5-24 : Permanent residency for corporation founder
- 3 or more year stayer as cooperation founder
- F-5-25 : Conditional permanent residency for large amount investment
- Pledger of keeping investment for 5 years and invested more than 1.5billion KRW
- F-5-27 : Permanent residency for recognized refugee
- Permanent residency for Recognized refugees
- F-5-26 : Human resource for Research and development
- Human resource for Research and development of foreign-invested enterprise
G : Others
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- G-1-1 : Compensation of industrial injury
- The guardian of a person who is claiming compensation for industrial accidents and being treated and him/her self
- G-1-2 : Disease and accidents
- The guardian of a person who is being treated from diseases and accidents and him/her self
- G-1-3 : Progression of litigation
- The person who is in the process of litigation
- G-1-4 : Arbitration for unpaid wages
- The person in the process of arbitration in labor government office for unpaid wages
- G-1-5 : Refugee application
- Refugee applicant
- G-1-6 : Refugee non-recognized
- Humanitarian residence permit among those who are not recognized as refugees
- G-1-7 : Family members of the dead
- Family members of the dead due to accidents etc.
- G-1-9 : Pregnancy and childbirth
- Humanitarian residence permit for pregnancy and childbirth
- G-1-10 : Treatment and convalescence
- Foreign patient
- G-1-11 : Victims forced prostitution
- Foreign females of victims of forced prostitution etc. who needs humanitarian residence permit
- G-1-12 : Family reunion and humanitarian residence permit
- A person with temporary stay permit due to family reunion and humanitarian resident
- G-1-99 : Others
- Others
H : Working Holiday, Working Visit
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- H-2-1 : Relative Working visit
- Meritorious persons and relatives
- H-2-2 : Overseas student Working visit
- Parents or spouse of overseas student
- H-2-3 : Voluntary Working visit
- Voluntary departures in 2006
- H-2-4 : Training Working visit
- Voluntary remigrant after training working visit
- H-2-5 : Selected Working visit
- Selected personnel by Korean language tests etc.
- H-2-6 : Changed Working visit
- Compatriots. Qualification changed after training.
- H-2-7 : Expiration Working visit
- Reentered expired departures
- H-2-99 : Other Working visit
- Other Working visit(Including qualification changed person)