Status

Required Document

Diplomats
(A-1)

- Temporary duty order or statement of employment or official letter
   from Foreign Minister to certify his or her status
   (Those documents may be replaced by verbal notes when his or

     her status is identified by showing identification card etc.)
     * A diplomatic passport is required.
      However, even a person who desires to do his diplomatic duty
      with a general passport and his family members will be
      included in this category

Official Duty
(A-2

- Temporary duty order or statement of employment or official letter
   from Foreign Minister to certify his or her status
   (facts he or she is on official duty must be included in the letter)
   * An Official passport or identification card is required.
      However, even a person who desires to do his official duty
      with a general passport or who works for an international
      organization and his family members will be included in this
      category.

Agreement
(A-3)

- Temporary duty order or statement of employment or official letter
   from Foreign Minister to certify his or her status
   * Identification card is required

Temporary News
Coverage
(C-1)

- Letter of assignment, statement of employment issued by the

   employing company of applicant, or certificate indicating applicant

   is a foreign news reporter.

- Purpose of entry and detale plan of activities.

Short-Term Business
(C-2)

- Notarized Company Instruction Letter proving the fact that the purpose of his/her visit to Korea is on business and duration of stay.

Short-Term Visitors
(C-3)

- No documents are required

Short-Term Employment
(C-4)

- Letter of employment contract
- Recommendation of employment issued by the concerned

   Ministry's Minister

   (if performance, permission issued by the Ministry of Culture)

Culture/Art
(D-1)

- Letter of invitation
- Documents proving the fact that it is culture and art organization
   * certificate of expert's career will be required in case that the
      applicant needs his or her instruction
- Curriculum vitae or certificate of career
- Documents proving the applicant's capability to pay his or her

   whole travel expenses during his or her stay
   * A above-mentioned expert means a person who qualifies

      intangible cultural assets or who holds a certificate of

      qualification recognized by government agency

Students
(D-2)

- Certificate of admission letter or certificate of registration issued
   by the president of college or university
- A person who research at an educational/scientific research
   organization
   o substantiating documents for the research
   o Certificate of the last school
   o Letter of personal reference notarized (form 129)

Technical Trainees
(D-3)

- Training schedule prepared by the research organization
- Letter of personal reference notarized (form 129)
- Copy of wage or pay ledger
- Proof of recommendation as foreign industrial/ technical
   research institute or equivalent document qualifying as such
   institute

General Trainees
(D-4)

- Certificate of training or admission of school
- Related documents proving the establishment of educational
   institution or other special institution
- Documents proving capability to burden any necessary costs

Residence Reporters
(D-5)

- Temporary duty order or statement of employment
- Related documents proving the establishment of branch office in

   Korea

Religious Workers
(D-6)

- Temporary mission order
- Copy of a certificate of religious organization or social welfare
   organization establishment
- Documents proving the facts that relevant organization pay the
   applicant's travel expenses

Intracompany Transferees
(D-7)

- Temporary duty order or statement of employment
- Copy of a certificate of setting up branch office or liason office
- Documents proving achievement of business fund borrowing or
   copy of business project
- Certificate of annual tax

Treaty Investors
(D-8)

- Temporary duty order or statement of employment

- Certificate of foreigner's investment report, including copy of

   register book or certificate of business registration

- Certificate of registered investment company

Treaty Traders
(D-9)

- Statement of employment
- Copy of register book or certificate of business registration
- Documents regarding business fund borrowing or copy of business
   project
- Receipt of annual tax-payment

Professors
(E-1)

- Certificate of career
- Employment contract or certificate of expected employment

Teaching Foreign
Languages
(E-2)

- Certificate of academic degree or diploma of graduation
- Employment contract
- Documents regarding establishment of school or organization
- Letter of personal reference notarized (form 129)

Research
(E-3)

- Documents regarding establishment of inviting organization
- Certificate of academic degree and certificate of career
- Employment contract

Special Technology
Instruction
(E-4)

- Temporary duty order or statement of employment
- Copy of approved technology-import contract of cope of technology
- import contract (or certificate of service transactions) or certificate
   of designated military defense industry
- Documents regarding establishment of a public or private

   organization

Speciality Occupation
(E-5)

- Certificate of academic degree and certificate of qualification

- Letter of employment recommendation issued by the head of

   central government agency or documents proving the necessity of

   employment

- Employment contract

Art and Entertainment
(E-6)

1. Persons who desire to be engaged in performance or

    entertainment activities at tourist hotels and entertainment places

    require;

    - Letter of performance recommendation issued by the Image stuff
      Classification committeeo Performance projecto Certificate of
      HIV testo Letter of personal reference notarized (form 129)
2. Other require;
    - Letter of employment recommendation issued by the head of the

       relevant central government agency or documents proving the

       necessity of employment
    - Certificate of qualification or certificate of careero Letter of

       personal reference notarized (form 129)

Paticular Occupation
(E-7)

- Certificate of academic degree or certificate of qualification
- Employment contract
- Letter of employment recommendation issued by the head of the
   relevant central government agency of documents proving the
   necessity of employment
- Documents regarding the establishment of a public or private
   organization
- Letter of personal reference notarized (form 129)

Long term Visiting &
Joining Family
(F-1)

1. Persons who visit family or relatives who live in Korea require;
    - Documents proving relationship of family or relatives
      (certificate of marriage & register book or certificate of birth)
    - Letter of personal reference notarized (form 129)
    - Persons adopted abroad require a certificate of confirmation or
      statement of adopting parents
      (form 129 not required)
2. Domestic helper of diplomats in Korea require;
    - Official letter issued by foreign embassy or consulate
    - Employment contract
    - Copy of diplomat's ID
3. Foreign students who enrolled in elimentary/junior/high school
    require;
    - Certificate of school enrollment or school attendance
    - Certificate of adopted person's annual tax-payment

Accompanying
(F-3)

- Documents proving family relationship
   (certificate of marriage and register book or certificate of birth)

- Statement of employment and certificate of tax-payment