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Part-Time Work Permission for International Students in Korea

Eunsun Park
Eunsun Park
11 months ago

1. What Is โ€œActivity Outside of Statusโ€ Permission?

Under Korean immigration law, foreigners are allowed to engage only in activities that match their visa status. For international students (D-2 visa), work or income-generating activities are not permitted by default, but they can apply for permission to engage in activities outside their visa statusโ€”commonly used for part-time jobs.


2. Legal Basis

  • Immigration Control Act, Article 20 (Permission for Activities Outside of Status)
  • Enforcement Decree, Article 21
  • Ministry of Justice Guidelines on Foreign Student Employment

3. Who Can Apply?

CategoryRequirement
Visa TypeD-2 (Bachelorโ€™s, Masterโ€™s, Ph.D. programs)
Academic StandingGood attendance and GPA (see below)
Criminal RecordNo violations of immigration or other laws
Korean Language AbilityRequired for off-campus work (TOPIK Level 3 or KIIP Level 4 and above)

4. Basic Eligibility

ConditionCriteria
Attendance90% or more in the previous semester
GPAAverage of C or higher
Korean LanguageTOPIK Level 3+ or KIIP Level 4+ (required for off-campus jobs)
Valid VisaMust have a valid D-2 visa and Alien Registration Card

5. Permitted Working Hours

PeriodLimit
During semesterUp to 20 hours/week (undergraduate & masterโ€™s)
During vacationUnlimited hours, but only at approved workplaces
WeekendsIncluded in the weekly total
Graduate students (research-based)May be allowed more hours with justification

Exceeding limits is a serious violation and may result in deportation.


6. Prohibited Industries

Students are not allowed to work in the following industries:

  • Adult entertainment (bars, karaoke, clubs, etc.)
  • Massage parlors and similar businesses
  • Gambling-related establishments
  • Illegal or unregistered workplaces
  • Door-to-door or multi-level marketing

7. Application Procedure

ItemDetails
When to ApplyBefore starting any work
Where to ApplyLocal Immigration Office or HiKorea
FeeFree of charge

8. Required Documents

DocumentDescription
Application Formโ€œPermission for Activity Outside of Statusโ€
Alien Registration CardOriginal
PassportFor identification
Enrollment & transcript certificatesTo prove academic standing
Employment contractMust include workplace, hours, wage, duration
Business registration certificateFrom employer
Korean language certificateTOPIK or KIIP (for off-campus work)

Some schools also require a Recommendation Letter from a professor or university office.


9. Consequences of Violation

ViolationPenalty
Working without permissionVisa cancellation or deportation
Exceeding work hoursRestriction on future visa extension or change
Working in restricted sectorsFines, blacklist, or deportation

10. Practical Tips

  • Campus jobs also require permissionโ€”even unpaid positions.
  • The exact workplace and job scope must match the approved application.
  • Keep a copy of the approval notice in case of inspections.
  • Make sure the employment contract clearly lists hourly wage and weekly hours.
  • Changing your workplace? โ†’ Apply for a new permission before starting.

Conclusion

While international students on D-2 visas are not automatically allowed to work, the Activity Outside of Status Permission system offers a legal way to gain work experience and earn incomeโ€”if properly approved. Failure to comply with the rules may lead to visa rejection or deportation, so itโ€™s critical to apply carefully and follow conditions strictly.

1. ์ž๊ฒฉ์™ธ ํ™œ๋™ ํ—ˆ๊ฐ€๋ž€?

์ž๊ฒฉ์™ธ ํ™œ๋™์ด๋ž€, ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ด ๋ฒ•๋ฌด๋ถ€๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ถ€์—ฌ๋ฐ›์€ ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉ ์™ธ์˜ ํ™œ๋™์„ ํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ์‚ฌ์ „์— ํ—ˆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์ผ์ •ํ•œ ๋ฒ”์œ„ ๋‚ด์—์„œ๋งŒ ํ™œ๋™ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ•œ ์ œ๋„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. D-2(์ •๊ทœ๊ณผ์ • ์œ ํ•™) ๋น„์ž๋Š” ํ•™์—… ๋ชฉ์  ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉ์ด๋ฏ€๋กœ ๊ทผ๋กœยท์ทจ์—… ๋“ฑ ์†Œ๋“ํ™œ๋™์€ ์›์น™์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธˆ์ง€๋˜๋‚˜, ์˜ˆ์™ธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ผ์ • ์š”๊ฑด์„ ์ถฉ์กฑํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ํ—ˆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์•„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


2. ๋ฒ•์  ๊ทผ๊ฑฐ

  • ใ€Œ์ถœ์ž…๊ตญ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ฒ•ใ€ ์ œ20์กฐ (์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉ ์™ธ ํ™œ๋™์˜ ํ—ˆ๊ฐ€)
  • ใ€Œ์ถœ์ž…๊ตญ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ฒ• ์‹œํ–‰๋ นใ€ ์ œ21์กฐ
  • ใ€Œ์ถœ์ž…๊ตญยท์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ •์ฑ…๋ณธ๋ถ€ ์ž๊ฒฉ์™ธํ™œ๋™๊ด€๋ฆฌ์ง€์นจใ€

3. ์ž๊ฒฉ์™ธ ํ™œ๋™ ํ—ˆ์šฉ ๋Œ€์ƒ

๊ตฌ๋ถ„๋‚ด์šฉ
์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉD-2 (ํ•™์‚ฌ, ์„์‚ฌ, ๋ฐ•์‚ฌ ๊ณผ์ • ์œ ํ•™์ƒ)
ํ—ˆ์šฉ ์กฐ๊ฑด์ถœ์„๋ฅ  ์–‘ํ˜ธ, ์„ฑ์  ์šฐ์ˆ˜, ๋ฒ• ์œ„๋ฐ˜ ์ด๋ ฅ ์—†์Œ
ํ—ˆ์šฉ ํ™œ๋™๋‹จ์ˆœ ์•„๋ฅด๋ฐ”์ดํŠธ, ๊ต๋‚ด/๊ต์™ธ ๊ทผ๋กœ, ํ†ต๋ฒˆ์—ญ, ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์กฐ๊ต ๋“ฑ

โ€ป D-4(์ผ๋ฐ˜์—ฐ์ˆ˜) ๋น„์ž ์†Œ์ง€์ž๋„ ์ผ์ • ์กฐ๊ฑด ํ•˜์— ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‚˜ ์ œํ•œ์ 


4. ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ์š”๊ฑด

์š”๊ฑด๊ธฐ์ค€
ํ•™์—… ์ดํ–‰์ง์ „ ํ•™๊ธฐ ์ถœ์„๋ฅ  90% ์ด์ƒ + ํ‰๊ท  C ์ด์ƒ
ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ๋Šฅ๋ ฅTOPIK 3๊ธ‰ ์ด์ƒ ๋˜๋Š” KIIP 4๋‹จ๊ณ„ ์ด์ƒ (๊ต์™ธ ๊ทผ๋ฌด ์‹œ ํ•„์ˆ˜)
์ฒด๋ฅ˜๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์œ ํšจํ•œ ์ฒด๋ฅ˜๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ
์œ„๋ฐ˜ ์ด๋ ฅ์ž๊ฒฉ์™ธ ํ™œ๋™ ๋ฌด๋‹จ ์ด๋ ฅ ๋˜๋Š” ์ถœ์ž…๊ตญ ์œ„๋ฐ˜ ์ „๋ ฅ ์—†์–ด์•ผ ํ•จ

5. ํ—ˆ์šฉ ์‹œ๊ฐ„

๊ตฌ๋ถ„ํ—ˆ์šฉ ์‹œ๊ฐ„
ํ•™๊ธฐ ์ค‘์ฃผ๋‹น ์ตœ๋Œ€ 20์‹œ๊ฐ„ (๋Œ€ํ•™์›์ƒ์€ ์—ฐ๊ตฌํ™œ๋™ ์ œ์™ธ)
๋ฐฉํ•™ ์ค‘์‹œ๊ฐ„์ œํ•œ ์—†์Œ (๋‹จ, ํ—ˆ๊ฐ€๋ฐ›์€ ์ง์žฅ ๋‚ด์—์„œ๋งŒ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ)
๊ณตํœด์ผ ํฌํ•จ ์—ฌ๋ถ€์ฃผ์ค‘, ์ฃผ๋ง ํฌํ•จ ์ดํ•ฉ ๊ธฐ์ค€

โ€ป ์ฃผ 20์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์ดˆ๊ณผ ์‹œ ๋ถˆ๋ฒ•์ฒด๋ฅ˜ ๊ฐ„์ฃผ ๋ฐ ๊ฐ•์ œํ‡ด์ถœ ์‚ฌ์œ 


6. ํ—ˆ์šฉ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์—…์ข…

๋‹ค์Œ ์—…์ข…์€ ์œ ํ•™์ƒ ์ž๊ฒฉ์™ธ ํ™œ๋™์œผ๋กœ ๊ธˆ์ง€๋จ.

  • ์œ ํฅ์ฃผ์ , ๋‹จ๋ž€์ฃผ์ , ๋…ธ๋ž˜๋ฐฉ ๋“ฑ ํ’์†์˜์—…
  • ๋งˆ์‚ฌ์ง€, ์•ˆ๋งˆ์‹œ์ˆ ์†Œ ๋“ฑ ๋ณด๊ฑด์œ„์ƒ ๊ด€๋ จ ์˜์—…์žฅ์†Œ
  • ๋ฌดํ—ˆ๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ์—…์žฅ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ณ„์•ฝ ๋ฏธ์ฒด๊ฒฐ ์—…์žฅ
  • ๋‹ค๋‹จ๊ณ„, ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํŒ๋งค์—…, ๋„๋ฐ•์„ฑ ์—…์†Œ ๋“ฑ

7. ์‹ ์ฒญ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•

ํ•ญ๋ชฉ๋‚ด์šฉ
์‹ ์ฒญ์‹œ๊ธฐ๊ทผ๋ฌด ์‹œ์ž‘ ์ „ ์‚ฌ์ „ ์‹ ์ฒญ ํ•„์ˆ˜
์‹ ์ฒญ์ฒ˜๊ด€ํ•  ์ถœ์ž…๊ตญยท์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ฒญ (๋˜๋Š” HiKorea)
์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ (์˜จ๋ผ์ธ/๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ ๋™์ผ)

8. ์ œ์ถœ์„œ๋ฅ˜

์„œ๋ฅ˜๋ช…์„ค๋ช…
์ž๊ฒฉ์™ธํ™œ๋™ํ—ˆ๊ฐ€์‹ ์ฒญ์„œ์ถœ์ž…๊ตญ์ฒญ ์–‘์‹
์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ฑ๋ก์ฆ์›๋ณธ ์ œ์ถœ
์žฌํ•™์ฆ๋ช…์„œ + ์„ฑ์ ์ฆ๋ช…์„œ์ถœ์„๋ฅ  ๋ฐ ์„ฑ์  ํ™•์ธ์šฉ
๊ณ ์šฉ๊ณ„์•ฝ์„œ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ทผ๋กœํ™•์ธ์„œ๊ทผ๋กœ์กฐ๊ฑด ๋ช…์‹œ ํ•„์ˆ˜ (์‹œ๊ธ‰, ์‹œ๊ฐ„, ์žฅ์†Œ ๋“ฑ)
์‚ฌ์—…์ž๋“ฑ๋ก์ฆ ์‚ฌ๋ณธ๊ณ ์šฉ์ฃผ ์‚ฌ์—…์ฒด
ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์ฆ๋ช…์„œTOPIK ๋˜๋Š” KIIP ์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ์ฆ (๊ต์™ธ ๊ทผ๋กœ ์‹œ)

โ€ป ํ•™๊ต์žฅ ๋˜๋Š” ๋‹ด๋‹น ๊ต์ˆ˜์˜ ๊ทผ๋กœ ์ถ”์ฒœ์„œ๋ฅผ ์š”๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ๊ด€๋„ ์žˆ์Œ


9. ๋ถˆ์ดํ–‰ ์‹œ ๋ถˆ์ด์ต

์œ„๋ฐ˜ ๋‚ด์šฉ์กฐ์น˜
๋ฌด๋‹จ ๊ทผ๋กœ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉ ์ทจ์†Œ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฐ•์ œ์ถœ๊ตญ
ํ—ˆ๊ฐ€ ๋ฒ”์œ„ ์ดˆ๊ณผ์ถ”ํ›„ ์ž๊ฒฉ์—ฐ์žฅ ๋ฐ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ ๋ถˆํ—ˆ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ
์ œํ•œ ์—…์ข… ๊ทผ๋กœ์ž…๊ตญ๊ธˆ์ง€ ๋˜๋Š” ๋ฒ”์น™๊ธˆ ๋ถ€๊ณผ

10. ์‹ค๋ฌด ํŒ

  • ๊ต๋‚ด ๊ทผ๋กœ(์˜ˆ: ๋„์„œ๊ด€, ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์‹ค)๋„ ํ—ˆ๊ฐ€ ๋Œ€์ƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌด๋‹จ ๊ทผ๋กœ ์ฃผ์˜!
  • ํ—ˆ๊ฐ€๋ฐ›์€ ์—…์žฅ ์™ธ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์žฅ์†Œ์—์„œ ๊ทผ๋ฌดํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์œ„๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ„์ฃผ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ๊ณ„์•ฝ์„œ์—๋Š” ๊ทผ๋กœ์‹œ๊ฐ„, ์‹œ๊ธ‰, ๊ทผ๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋ช…์‹œ ํ•„์ˆ˜
  • ํ—ˆ๊ฐ€ ์—†์ด ์ผํ•œ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ด ์ถœ์ž…๊ตญ์— ํ†ต๋ณด๋˜๋ฉด ์ž๊ฒฉ์™ธ ํ™œ๋™ ์ „๋ฉด ์ œํ•œ

๊ฒฐ๋ก 

์œ ํ•™์ƒ์˜ ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉ ์™ธ ํ™œ๋™์€ ์—„๊ฒฉํ•œ ์ œํ•œ๊ณผ ํ—ˆ๊ฐ€ ์ ˆ์ฐจ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ์œ„๋ฐ˜ํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉ ์œ ์ง€์— ์‹ฌ๊ฐํ•œ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์นฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ •ํ™•ํ•œ ์š”๊ฑด์„ ์ถฉ์กฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์ ์ ˆํžˆ ํ—ˆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์€ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ํ•™์—…๊ณผ ๋ณ‘ํ–‰ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๋ฒ•์  ์†Œ๋“ํ™œ๋™์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฏ€๋กœ ์‹ค๋ฌด์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋งค์šฐ ์œ ์šฉํ•œ ์ œ๋„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.



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