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Who Can Apply for K-ETA (Korea Electronic Travel Authorization)?

Eunsun Park
Eunsun Park
9 months ago

Who Can Apply for K-ETA (Korea Electronic Travel Authorization)?

A Eligibility Criteria

You are eligible to apply for a K-ETA if you meet all of the following conditions:

  1. You hold a valid passport from a K-ETA eligible country (visa-free entry to Korea).
  2. Your purpose of visit is short-term, such as:
    • Tourism
    • Visiting family or friends
    • Attending events or conferences
    • Conducting general business activities (excluding profit-based employment)
  3. You are not exempt from K-ETA requirements.

-ย  Check your countryโ€™s eligibility and permitted length of stay here: K-ETA Eligible Countries


B Who Is Exempt from K-ETA?

You do not need to apply for K-ETA if you fall under any of the categories below:

  • Holders of diplomatic or official passports
  • Members of U.S. Forces Korea (SOFA agreement) and related personnel
  • Flight or vessel crew members
  • Holders of APEC Business Travel Cards (ABTC)
  • Transit passengers
  • Foreigners who are registered residents in Korea
  • Individuals with a valid Korean visa
  • UN passport holders
  • Those under 17 years old or over 65 years old on the day of entry

C What You Need to Prepare

Required Documents:

  • Valid passport
  • Valid email address
  • A passport-style photo (digital format)
  • A credit or debit card for payment (fee: KRW 10,000)

Important Notes:

  • Make sure your passport details match your K-ETA application.
  • Only apply through the official website: www.k-eta.go.kr
  • K-ETA is not a visa and does not guarantee entry. Final decision is made by immigration officers at the port of entry.
  • Processing time may vary, so itโ€™s recommended to apply at least 72 hours before your travel date.
  • Beware of fake or unauthorized websites charging extra fees.

D Summary Checklist for Travelers:

  • Check if your country is K-ETA eligible
  • Prepare your passport, email, and digital photo
  • Ensure your travel purpose is for short-term visit
  • Apply on the official K-ETA site
  • Pay the fee and wait for approval

Kโ€‘ETA ์‹ ์ฒญ ๋Œ€์ƒ ๋ฐ ์ž๊ฒฉ์š”๊ฑด

์‹ ์ฒญ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๋Œ€์ƒ

๋‹ค์Œ ์กฐ๊ฑด์„ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ถฉ์กฑํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถ„์ด Kโ€‘ETA ์‹ ์ฒญ ๋Œ€์ƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (k-eta.go.kr)

  1. ์™ธ๊ตญ ์—ฌ๊ถŒ์„ ์†Œ์ง€ํ•œ ๋ถ„์œผ๋กœ, ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ž…๊ตญ ์‹œ ๋น„์ž ์—†์ด ์ž…๊ตญ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ๋ชฉ๋ก์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ
  2. ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ ๋ชฉ์ ์ด ์—ฌํ–‰, ์นœ์ง€ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ, ํ–‰์‚ฌ ๋ฐ ํšŒ์˜ ์ฐธ์„, ๋˜๋Š” ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ๋ชฉ์ (์ƒ์—…์  ํ™œ๋™ ์ œ์™ธ) ๋“ฑ ๋‹จ๊ธฐ ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ธ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ (k-eta.go.kr)
  3. ์‹ ์ฒญ ๋ฉด์ œ ๋Œ€์ƒ(์•„๋ž˜) ์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ (k-eta.go.kr)

์‹ ์ฒญ ๋ฉด์ œ ๋Œ€์ƒ

์•„๋ž˜์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถ„๋“ค์€ Kโ€‘ETA ์‹ ์ฒญ ๋Œ€์ƒ์—์„œ ๋ฉด์ œ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (k-eta.go.kr)

  • ์™ธ๊ต๊ด€ ์—ฌ๊ถŒ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ด€์šฉ์—ฌ๊ถŒ ์†Œ์ง€์ž
  • ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ฃผ๋‘”๊ตฐ์ง€์œ„ํ˜‘์ •(SOFA)์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ, ๊ตฐ๋ฌด์› ๋“ฑ
  • ํ•ญ๊ณต๊ธฐ ๋˜๋Š” ์„ ๋ฐ•์˜ ์Šน๋ฌด์›
  • ABTC(์•„์‹œ์•„โ€‘ํƒœํ‰์–‘๊ฒฝ์ œํ˜‘๋ ฅ์ฒด) ์นด๋“œ ์†Œ์ง€์ž
  • ํ™˜์Šน๊ฐ
  • ๋“ฑ๋ก์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ, ์ด๋ฏธ ๋น„์ž๋ฅผ ์†Œ์ง€ํ•œ ์ž
  • ์œ ์—” ์—ฌ๊ถŒ ์†Œ์ง€์ž
  • ์ž…๊ตญ์ผ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๋งŒ17์„ธ ์ดํ•˜ ๋˜๋Š” ๋งŒ65์„ธ ์ด์ƒ์ธ ์ž

์ค€๋น„๋ฌผ ๋ฐ ์œ ์˜์‚ฌํ•ญ

์ค€๋น„์„œ๋ฅ˜ ๋ฐ ์‚ฌํ•ญ

Kโ€‘ETA ์‹ ์ฒญ ์‹œ ์ค€๋น„ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ํ•ญ๋ชฉ์€ ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (k-eta.go.kr)

  • ์œ ํšจํ•œ ์—ฌ๊ถŒ
  • ์œ ํšจํ•œ ์ด๋ฉ”์ผ ์ฃผ์†Œ
  • ์‹ ์›์‚ฌ์ง„ (์—ฌ๊ถŒ์šฉ)
  • ๊ฒฐ์ œ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ ์‹ ์šฉ์นด๋“œ ๋˜๋Š” ์ฒดํฌ์นด๋“œ (์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ ์ง€๋ถˆ์šฉ) โ€” ์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ๋Š” 10,000โ€ฏ์›์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (k-eta.go.kr)

์‹ ์ฒญ ์‹œ ์œ ์˜์‚ฌํ•ญ

  • ์‹ ์ฒญ ๋Œ€์ƒ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์ธ์ง€ ๋ชฉ๋ก์„ ํ™•์ธํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŽ˜์ด์ง€์—๋Š” ๊ฐ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋ณ„ ํ—ˆ์šฉ ์ฒด๋ฅ˜๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์ด ๊ธฐ์ˆ ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (k-eta.go.kr)
  • ์‹ ์ฒญ ๋ฉด์ œ๋Œ€์ƒ์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ๊ผผ๊ผผํžˆ ํ™•์ธํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค (๋ฉด์ œ ๋Œ€์ƒ์ธ๋ฐ ์‹ ์ฒญํ•˜๋ฉด ๋‚ญํŒจ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค).
  • ์‚ฌ์ง„์€ ์—ฌ๊ถŒ ๊ทœ๊ฒฉ๊ณผ ๋™์ผํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๊ณ , ์—ฌ๊ถŒ ์ •๋ณด์™€ ์‹ ์ฒญ์„œ ์ž…๋ ฅ ๋‚ด์šฉ์ด ์ผ์น˜ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ๊ฒฐ์ œ์นด๋“œ๊ฐ€ ๊ตญ์ œ ๊ฒฐ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ์ง€ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์„ธ์š”.
  • Kโ€‘ETA๋Š” โ€œ๋น„์ž ๋Œ€์‹ โ€์˜ ํ—ˆ๊ฐ€์ œ์ด๋ฏ€๋กœ ์ƒ์—…์  ํ™œ๋™(๊ทผ๋กœ ๋“ฑ)์€ ํ—ˆ์šฉ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์  ์œ ์˜ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


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