🇰🇷 South Korea Digital Nomad Visa
Digital Nomad (Workation) Visa - F-1-D · Open to applicants
How much income do you need for the South Korea digital nomad visa?
73,926 USD per year (2x South Korea's per-capita GNI (2x USD 36,963, the 2025 figure) - standard/default tier. Relaxed to 1x GNI (~USD 36,963) for applicants aged 18-34 residing outside Greater Seoul/Incheon/Gyeonggi or in a population-declining region.)
How long does the South Korea digital nomad visa last?
12 months, renewable
This fiche is not yet fully verified against official sources, so it is marked noindex. Figures below marked TBD are pending sourcing and are not presented as facts.
- Minimum income reported
- 73,926 USD / year (2x South Korea's per-capita GNI (2x USD 36,963, the 2025 figure) - standard/default tier. Relaxed to 1x GNI (~USD 36,963) for applicants aged 18-34 residing outside Greater Seoul/Incheon/Gyeonggi or in a population-declining region.)
- Visa duration reported
- 12 months, renewable
- Tax regime
- TBD
- Family (spouse / children)
- TBD
- Application fees
- TBD
- Health insurance
- TBD
- Processing time
- TBD
Per the 2026-07-07 Ministry of Justice announcement (visa relaunched as permanent 2026-06-30, replacing the pilot's flat 2x-GNI rule with this tiered formula). USD 73,926 is the only one of two competing figures (vs an unexplained USD 65,800 that recurs on some guide sites) that checks out arithmetically as 2x the well-corroborated USD 36,963 2025 GNI base; USD 65,800 does not resurface in this pass's independent coverage. Not marked 'official' - hikorea.go.kr, immigration.go.kr and mofa.go.kr all still 403 on direct fetch, so no primary Korean-government page has been read. The full official multiplier table for intermediate age/region combinations remains unpublished anywhere found - treat the two-tier figures above as the load-bearing ones, not a complete table.
source · verified 2026-08-01
1-year initial grant, renewable annually, extended from a 2-year to a 3-year total cap per a 2026-07-07 Ministry of Justice announcement - corroborated across 5+ independent secondary sources (incl. a EY Global tax alert and an immigration law firm), not yet read on an official Korean government page directly (hikorea.go.kr/immigration.go.kr/mofa.go.kr all 403 on direct fetch).
source · verified 2026-07-25
Reported figures conflict by nationality and fee type (~USD 45 base fee for some nationalities vs ~USD 100 general estimate vs a separate ~50,000 KRW in-country status-change fee) - no single authoritative figure found.
Official sources
- Korea Herald - S. Korea officially launches digital nomad visa with eased eligibility rules (other)
- Erickson Immigration Group - South Korea Officially Launches Digital Nomad Visa (other)
- EY Global - Republic of Korea formalizes its digital nomad visa program with expanded eligibility and extended stay period (other)
- Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Seattle - F-1-D Workation (Digital Nomad) Visa requirements (consulate)
- Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Houston - F-1-D For Workation (Digital Nomad) (consulate)
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Last full review: 2026-08-01. Figures are re-verified quarterly.