Korea entry requirements check

Visa-free entry, K-ETA and the e-Arrival Card are three separate decisions, and most of the confusion comes from treating them as one. The sharpest example: being exempt from K-ETA does not exempt you from the arrival declaration — it puts you on the list of people who file it.

Nothing here is a promise of admission. An immigration officer decides that at the counter, and every answer below links the official page it was read from so you can check it yourself.

Check your entry to Korea

Three separate questions, answered separately. None of them is a promise of admission — an immigration officer decides that at the counter, and no table can.

Passport issued by

Passport type

Why you are coming

Nights you plan to stay

Arrival date

Asked because one of the K-ETA rules has an end date.

How will you enter?

Only the third block uses this, and it is the route that decides — not what you own. Somebody holding both an approved K-ETA and a Korean visa is excluded by one and required to file by the other, and what settles it is the document they land on.

Your entry route: Not chosen yet
K-ETA: —
e-Arrival Card: —

1 · Visa-free entry

Pick your passport country

Can you come without a visa, and for how long?

2 · K-ETA

Not answered yet

Do you need a travel authorisation before you fly?

3 · e-Arrival Card

Tell us your route

Do you file the arrival declaration?

Cases this form does not cover

The official declaration lists name these separately. If one is you, the third block above is not your answer — check the official page.

filesDomestic or returning seafarer
excludedVisa-free group tourist arriving at Yangyang or Muan International Airport
excludedForeign flight attendant on an aircraft entering Korea
excludedCitizen of the Republic of Korea

Everything we have verified — 115 rows, 110 nationalities

Passport	Stay	Basis	K-ETA
United States	90 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Temporarily exempt
Japan	90 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Temporarily exempt
Singapore	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Temporarily exempt
Australia	90 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Temporarily exempt
Canada	6 months	Visa-free entry by designation	Temporarily exempt
Malaysia	3 months	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Germany	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Temporarily exempt
France	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Temporarily exempt
Italy	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Temporarily exempt
Spain	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Temporarily exempt
Netherlands	3 months	Visa exemption agreement	Temporarily exempt
New Zealand	3 months	Visa exemption agreement	Temporarily exempt
Thailand	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Taiwan	90 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Temporarily exempt
Hong Kong	90 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Temporarily exempt
United Kingdom — British Citizen	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Temporarily exempt
United Kingdom — British Dependent Territories Citizen	30 days	Visa exemption agreement	Temporarily exempt
United Kingdom — British National (Overseas)	30 days	Visa exemption agreement	Temporarily exempt
United Kingdom — British Overseas Citizen	30 days	Visa exemption agreement	Temporarily exempt
United Kingdom — British Protected Person	30 days	Visa exemption agreement	Temporarily exempt
United Kingdom — British Subject	30 days	Visa exemption agreement	Temporarily exempt
Saudi Arabia	30 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
Macau	90 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Temporarily exempt
Bahrain	30 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
Brunei	30 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
Oman	30 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
Kuwait	90 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
Guyana	30 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
Argentina	30 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
Ecuador	90 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
Honduras	30 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
Paraguay	30 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
Monaco	30 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
Montenegro	30 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
Vatican City	30 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
Bosnia and Herzegovina	30 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
Cyprus	30 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
San Marino	30 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
Serbia	90 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
Slovenia	90 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
Andorra	30 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
Albania	30 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
Croatia	90 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
Nauru	30 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
Marshall Islands	30 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
Micronesia	30 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
Samoa	30 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
Solomon Islands	30 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
Kiribati	30 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
Tonga	30 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
Tuvalu	30 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
Palau	30 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
Fiji	30 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
South Africa	30 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
Mauritius	30 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
Seychelles	30 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
Eswatini	30 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
Botswana	90 days	Visa-free entry by designation	Normally applies
United Arab Emirates	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Israel	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Türkiye	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Kazakhstan	30 continuous days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Qatar	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Guatemala	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Grenada	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Nicaragua	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Dominican Republic	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Dominica	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Mexico	3 months	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Barbados	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Bahamas	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Venezuela	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Brazil	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Saint Lucia	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Saint Kitts and Nevis	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Suriname	3 months	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Haiti	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Antigua and Barbuda	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
El Salvador	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Uruguay	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Jamaica	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Chile	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Costa Rica	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Colombia	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Trinidad and Tobago	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Panama	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Peru	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Greece	3 months	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Norway	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Temporarily exempt
Denmark	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Temporarily exempt
Latvia	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Russia	60 continuous days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Romania	90 continuous days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Luxembourg	3 months	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Lithuania	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Liechtenstein	3 months	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Malta	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Belgium	3 months	Visa exemption agreement	Temporarily exempt
Bulgaria	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Sweden	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Temporarily exempt
Switzerland	3 months	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Slovakia	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Iceland	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Ireland	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Estonia	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Austria	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Temporarily exempt
Czechia	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Portugal	90 continuous days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Poland	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Temporarily exempt
Finland	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Temporarily exempt
Hungary	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Lesotho	60 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Morocco	90 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies
Tunisia	30 days	Visa exemption agreement	Normally applies

A nationality missing from this table is one we have not read at source, so the checker will say so rather than guess. Stays written in months are left in months because that is what the official table says, and three months from 10 November is not the same number of days as three months from 1 December.

Most rows read Not established under K-ETA, and that is not a quiet no. Visa-free entry and K-ETA are kept on different official lists that do not match row for row, and the temporary exemption is a third list again — so a nationality read from the visa-exemption tables tells us nothing about its K-ETA position. Those rows send you to the official eligibility page instead of answering for it.

Official pages:K-ETA eligibility and permitted stay·e-Arrival Card, who must declare

Check your entry to Korea

Before you arrive