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H-1 (Working Holiday) Visa in South Korea

Eunsun Park
Eunsun Park
5 months ago

โœ… Overview of H-1 (Working Holiday) Visa

CategoryDetails
Official NameShort-Term Employment (H-1) Visa
Legal BasisArticle 23, Appendix 1 of the Enforcement Regulations of the Immigration Control Act
PurposeTourism, cultural experience, and short-term part-time work
DurationUp to 1 year (may vary by country; extension generally not allowed)
EligibilityCitizens aged 18โ€“30 from countries with Working Holiday agreements (some countries allow up to age 25)

1. Permitted Activities

Since the primary purpose of the H-1 visa is tourism and cultural exchange, only incidental, short-term employment is allowed.

Permitted JobsConditions
Part-time jobs at convenience stores, cafes, restaurantsNo specific weekly work hour limit (as long as not enrolled in full-time studies)
Hotel, guesthouse, or service-related workAllowed
Seasonal jobs at farms, ski resorts, tourist sitesAllowed
Assistant teacher at English camps or private academiesAllowed only for native English speakers; formal teaching is not permitted

2. Prohibited Activities (Restrictions)

The following are explicitly prohibited under the H-1 visa:

Prohibited ActivitiesReason
Full-time, regular employmentConflicts with the temporary work intent of the visa
Private academy instructor or school teacherProfessional jobs are not permitted
Office-based full-time jobsJobs that assume permanent employment status are not allowed
Unskilled labor in manufacturing or constructionStrictly prohibited unless holding an E-9, H-2, or other appropriate visa
Working in businesses that hire undocumented workersMay lead to visa cancellation or deportation

3. Additional Notes

  • The stay is usually limited to 1 year, and extensions are generally not allowed for Korea (some exceptions apply in countries like Australia or New Zealand).
  • Some countries require pre-approval for employment even under the H-1 visa.
  • If working, the employer must report the labor contract and 4 major insurances; the worker is protected under Korean labor law.
  • If earning above a certain amount, the foreigner is required to file income tax (Comprehensive Income Tax Return).

4. Consequences of Visa Violation

  • Illegal employment can lead to visa cancellation, deportation, and re-entry bans.
  • Engaging in long-term or full-time employment is considered a violation of visa conditions.
  • May become subject to on-site inspections by Immigration Offices.

โœ… Conclusion

The H-1 visa is designed for short-term stay and cultural exchange, and therefore, general or long-term employment is strictly limited. If you wish to work full-time or continue working in Korea, you must change your visa to a suitable type such as E-7 (Skilled Employment) or D-10 (Job Seeking Visa).

์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์˜ H-1 ๋น„์ž(์›Œํ‚นํ™€๋ฆฌ๋ฐ์ด ๋น„์ž)๋Š” ๋ฌธํ™” ์ฒดํ—˜๊ณผ ๋‹จ๊ธฐ ์ทจ์—…์„ ํ—ˆ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ํŠน๋ณ„ ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ์ทจ์—…๋น„์ž(E-9, E-7 ๋“ฑ)์™€ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ ํ™œ๋™ ๋ฒ”์œ„์— ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•œ ์ œํ•œ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„๋ž˜์— H-1 ๋น„์ž์˜ ํ™œ๋™ ๋ฒ”์œ„ ๋ฐ ์ œํ•œ์‚ฌํ•ญ์„ ๋ฒ•๋ น ๋ฐ ์ง€์นจ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ •๋ฆฌํ•ด๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


โœ… H-1(์›Œํ‚นํ™€๋ฆฌ๋ฐ์ด) ๋น„์ž ๊ฐœ์š”

ํ•ญ๋ชฉ๋‚ด์šฉ
์ •์‹ ๋ช…์นญ๋‹จ๊ธฐ์ทจ์—…(H-1) ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉ
๋ฒ•์  ๊ทผ๊ฑฐ์ถœ์ž…๊ตญ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ฒ• ์‹œํ–‰๊ทœ์น™ ์ œ23์กฐ ๋ณ„ํ‘œ1
์ฒด๋ฅ˜ ๋ชฉ์ ๊ด€๊ด‘, ๋ฌธํ™”์ฒดํ—˜, ๋‹จ๊ธฐ ์•„๋ฅด๋ฐ”์ดํŠธ ๋“ฑ
์ฒด๋ฅ˜ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์ตœ๋Œ€ 1๋…„ (๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋ณ„ ์ƒ์ด, ์—ฐ์žฅ ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋Š” ์ œํ•œ์  ์—ฐ์žฅ)
๋Œ€์ƒ์›Œํ‚นํ™€๋ฆฌ๋ฐ์ด ํ˜‘์ • ์ฒด๊ฒฐ๊ตญ 18์„ธ~30์„ธ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ (์ผ๋ถ€ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋Š” 25์„ธ๊นŒ์ง€)

1. ํ—ˆ์šฉ๋œ ํ™œ๋™

H-1 ๋น„์ž๋Š” ์ฃผ์š” ๋ชฉ์ ์ด ๊ด€๊ด‘ ๋ฐ ๋ฌธํ™” ์ฒดํ—˜์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ๋‹จ๊ธฐ์ ์ด๊ณ  ๋ถ€์ˆ˜์ ์ธ ์ทจ์—…๋งŒ ํ—ˆ์šฉ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ—ˆ์šฉ ํ™œ๋™์กฐ๊ฑด
ํŽธ์˜์ , ์นดํŽ˜, ์Œ์‹์  ์•„๋ฅด๋ฐ”์ดํŠธ์ฃผ๋‹น ๊ทผ๋ฌด์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์ œํ•œ ์—†์Œ (๋‹จ, ํ•™์—… ๋ชฉ์ ์ด ์•„๋‹˜)
ํ˜ธํ…”, ๊ฒŒ์ŠคํŠธํ•˜์šฐ์Šค ๋“ฑ ์„œ๋น„์Šค์ง๊ฐ€๋Šฅ
๊ด€๊ด‘, ๋†์žฅ, ์Šคํ‚ค์žฅ ๋“ฑ ๊ณ„์ ˆ์„ฑ ์•„๋ฅด๋ฐ”์ดํŠธ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ
ํ•™์› ๋ณด์กฐ๊ต์‚ฌ, ์˜์–ด ์บ ํ”„ ๋„์šฐ๋ฏธ ๋“ฑ๋ณธ์ธ์ด ์˜์–ด๊ถŒ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ์ถœ์‹ ์ผ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์ œํ•œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ (๋‹จ, ์ •์‹ ๊ต์Šตํ–‰์œ„๋Š” ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€)

2. ์ œํ•œ๋œ ํ™œ๋™ (๊ธˆ์ง€์‚ฌํ•ญ)

๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ํ™œ๋™์€ H-1 ๋น„์ž ์†Œ์ง€์ž์—๊ฒŒ ๋ช…๋ฐฑํžˆ ๊ธˆ์ง€๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค:

์ œํ•œ ํ™œ๋™์‚ฌ์œ 
์ „์ผ์ œ ์ •๊ทœ์ง ๊ทผ๋กœ (ํ’€ํƒ€์ž„ ์ทจ์—…)๋‹จ๊ธฐ์ทจ์—… ์ž๊ฒฉ์˜ ๋ชฉ์ ์— ์œ„๋ฐฐ
ํ•™์› ๊ฐ•์‚ฌ, ์ •๊ทœ ๊ต์‚ฌ์ „๋ฌธ์ง ํ™œ๋™์€ ์›์น™์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€
์‚ฌ๋ฌด์ง ์ •๊ทœ์ง ์ฑ„์šฉ์ƒ์‹œ ๊ณ ์šฉ์„ ์ „์ œ๋กœ ํ•˜๋Š” ํ™œ๋™์€ ์ œํ•œ๋จ
์ œ์กฐ์—…ยท๊ฑด์„ค์—…์˜ ๋‹จ์ˆœ๋…ธ๋ฌด์ง์›์น™์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธˆ์ง€ (E-9, H-2 ๋“ฑ ๋ณ„๋„ ์ž๊ฒฉ ํ•„์š”)
๋ถˆ๋ฒ•์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž ๊ณ ์šฉ ์—…์žฅ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์ฒด๋ฅ˜ ์ž๊ฒฉ ์ทจ์†Œ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฐ•์ œ ์ถœ๊ตญ ์‚ฌ์œ 

3. ์„ธ๋ถ€ ์œ ์˜์‚ฌํ•ญ

  • ์ฒด๋ฅ˜ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์€ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ 1๋…„ ์ด๋‚ด์ด๋ฉฐ, ์—ฐ์žฅ์€ ํ˜‘์ •๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋ณ„๋กœ ์ฐจ์ด๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Œ (์˜ˆ: ํ˜ธ์ฃผ/๋‰ด์งˆ๋žœ๋“œ๋Š” ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์‹ ์ฒญ์œผ๋กœ ์ตœ๋Œ€ 2~3๋…„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ํ•œ๊ตญ์€ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฐ์žฅ ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€)
  • ์ผ๋ถ€ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋Š” ์‚ฌ์ „ ์ทจ์—… ํ—ˆ๊ฐ€์„œ๋ฅผ ์š”๊ตฌํ•˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•จ
  • ์ทจ์—…ํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์—๋Š” ๊ณ ์šฉ์ฃผ๊ฐ€ ๊ทผ๋กœ๊ณ„์•ฝ์„œ ๋ฐ 4๋Œ€ ๋ณดํ—˜์„ ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ ๊ทผ๋กœ์ž๋กœ์„œ ๊ทผ๋กœ๊ธฐ์ค€๋ฒ• ์ ์šฉ ๋Œ€์ƒ
  • ์ผ์ • ์†Œ๋“ ์ด์ƒ ๋ฐœ์ƒ ์‹œ ์ข…ํ•ฉ์†Œ๋“์„ธ ์‹ ๊ณ  ์˜๋ฌด ์žˆ์Œ

4. H-1 ๋น„์ž ์œ„๋ฐ˜ ์‹œ ๋ถˆ์ด์ต

  • ๋ถˆ๋ฒ•์ทจ์—… ์ ๋ฐœ ์‹œ ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉ ์ทจ์†Œ ๋ฐ ๊ฐ•์ œ์ถœ๊ตญ, ์žฌ์ž…๊ตญ ์ œํ•œ
  • ๋น„์ž๋ชฉ์ ๊ณผ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์žฅ๊ธฐ ๊ทผ๋ฌด ๋˜๋Š” ์ƒ์‹œ๊ทผ๋ฌด ์‹œ ์œ„๋ฒ• ํŒ๋‹จ
  • ์ถœ์ž…๊ตญ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์†Œ ๋˜๋Š” ์ง€๋ฐฉ์ถœ์ž…๊ตญ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์†Œ์˜ ํ˜„์žฅ์ ๊ฒ€ ๋Œ€์ƒ์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ

๊ฒฐ๋ก 

H-1 ๋น„์ž๋Š” ๋‹จ๊ธฐ ์ฒด๋ฅ˜ ๋ฐ ๋ฌธํ™”๊ต๋ฅ˜ ๋ชฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ—ˆ๊ฐ€๋œ ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉ์œผ๋กœ, ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ์ทจ์—… ํ™œ๋™์€ ๋ช…๋ฐฑํ•œ ์ œํ•œ์ด ๋”ฐ๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งŒ์•ฝ ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋ณธ๊ฒฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ทจ์—…์„ ์›ํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉ์„ E-7(ํŠน์ •ํ™œ๋™) ๋˜๋Š” D-10(๊ตฌ์ง) ๋“ฑ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝํ•ด์•ผ ์ ๋ฒ•ํ•œ ํ™œ๋™์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.



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