Destination Visa Policy
Who needs a visa for South Korea?
Find your passport below to see how you can enter South Korea — then open the full breakdown with fees, documents, transit and health rules.
Passport validity
Valid for the full duration of your stay (6 months recommended as a buffer)
Blank pages
At least 1–2 blank visa pages
Yellow fever
Yellow fever certificate required only if you arrive from (or transited through) a country with risk of yellow fever transmission.
Visa Free (62 passports)
Australia · 90d Austria · 90d Bahrain · 30d Belgium · 90d Brunei · 30d Bulgaria · 90d Canada · 180d Colombia · 90d Croatia · 90d Cyprus · 30d Czech Republic · 90d Denmark · 90d Estonia · 90d Fiji · 30d Finland · 90d France · 90d Germany · 90d Greece · 90d Hong Kong · 90d Hungary · 90d Iceland · 90d Ireland · 90d Israel · 90d Italy · 90d Japan · 90d Kiribati · 30d Kuwait · 30d Latvia · 90d Liechtenstein · 90d Lithuania · 90d Luxembourg · 90d Macau · 90d Malta · 90d Marshall Islands · 30d Micronesia · 30d Monaco · 30d Nauru · 30d Netherlands · 90d New Zealand · 90d Norway · 90d Oman · 30d Palau · 30d Poland · 90d Portugal · 90d Qatar · 90d Romania · 90d Samoa · 30d San Marino · 30d Saudi Arabia · 30d Singapore · 90d Slovakia · 90d Slovenia · 90d Spain · 90d Sweden · 90d Switzerland · 90d Taiwan · 90d Tonga · 30d Tuvalu · 30d United Arab Emirates · 90d United Kingdom · 90d United States · 90d Vatican City · 30d
Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) (48 passports)
Albania Andorra Antigua & Barbuda Argentina Bahamas Barbados Bosnia & Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Chile Costa Rica Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Eswatini Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Kazakhstan Lesotho Malaysia Mauritius Mexico Montenegro Morocco Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Russia Serbia Seychelles Solomon Islands South Africa St. Kitts & Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent & Grenadines Suriname Thailand Trinidad & Tobago Tunisia Türkiye Uruguay Venezuela
e-Visa Required (88 passports)
Afghanistan Algeria Angola Armenia Azerbaijan Bangladesh Belarus Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad China Comoros Cuba Djibouti DR Congo Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Georgia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ivory Coast Jordan Kenya Kosovo Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Maldives Mali Mauritania Moldova Mongolia Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nepal Niger Nigeria North Korea North Macedonia Pakistan Palestine Papua New Guinea Philippines Republic of the Congo Rwanda Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Sierra Leone Somalia South Sudan Sri Lanka Sudan Syria Tajikistan Tanzania Timor-Leste Togo Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vietnam Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe
Standard short-stay tourism rules for ordinary passports. Special categories (diplomatic passports, residence-permit holders, crew) follow different rules — contact us for a personal assessment.