South Korea

Visa facts

• Maximum stay: 365 days
• Processing time: ? - ? days
• Dependents allowed: yes
• Remote work permission: explicitly allowed
• Renewal path: unknown
• Income requirement: Data not published
• Savings requirement: Data not published

Tax and compliance

Resident treatment: under Article 1-2 of the Income Tax Act, an individual with domicile or residence in Korea for at least 183 days is a resident; Article 3 imposes tax on all income, with a specific carve-out for certain foreign residents (not more than five years in total during the prior ten years) where foreign-source taxation is limited to amounts paid in or remitted to Korea. Non-resident treatment: Article 3(2) imposes tax on Korea-source income only for nonresidents. Assumptions: effective rate uses the top basic PIT bracket in Article 55 (45% over KRW 1 billion) and excludes local income tax surcharges; employee social contribution is null because a single consolidated statutory employee percentage covering all mandatory schemes was not established from one directly citable consolidated source in this batch. Confidence: high (residency, income scope, PIT brackets, and VAT rate are from current official statute text).

Cost and infrastructure

• Monthly cost baseline: $1,599
• Rent (1BR city center): $581
• Internet: $22
• Coworking: Data not published

Method: Numbeo country data (USD display) retrieved 2026-02-27. Baselines are computed as (single-person monthly costs excluding rent) + (1BR outside-centre minimum / 1BR city-centre average / 1BR city-centre maximum) for poor/average/comfortable scenarios. Baselines: poor 1262.17 USD, average 1599.23 USD, comfortable 2064.45 USD. Numbeo last update: 26 February 2026. Cross-check: LivingCost (updated October 14, 2025) reports one-person total with rent 1134 USD. monthly_coworking_usd is null due no reliable country-level coworking dataset. Confidence: medium (recent crowdsourced data with transparent formula, but local-city variance is high).