Foreigners who are prohibited from entering Korea

 Eligible for entry by law

1. Those who are prohibited from entering the country by law

     ① The Minister of Justice may prohibit entry into any of the following cases:

  •  1. Infectious disease patients, drug addicts, and others recognized as having a risk of harm to public health
  • 2. People who intend to enter the country with guns, swords, and gunpowder illegally.
  • 3. People who may harm the public interest of Korea
  • 4. Persons who may act to harm economic order or social order or to harm good manners
  • 5. Persons with mental disabilities who do not have a sense of self-discrimination and who cannot assist in their stay in Korea, those who do not have the ability to bear the cost of staying in Korea, and others who need relief.
  • 6. A person who has been ordered for eviction and has not passed five years since leaving Japan.
  • 7. Persons who have been involved in the act of slaughtering and abusing a person in connection with the government or in connection with the government of any of the following items from August 29, 1910 to August 15, 1945: 1) Japanese government, 2) government allied with Japanese government, 3) Japanese government’s superior power 
  •  8. Persons who comply with the provisions of Nos. 1 to 7

Eligible for entry by application and examination

 1. Subject to request: A person who requests the head of the central administrative agency to the Minister of Justice 

 2 Subject to screening decision: A person who has been deported or has been deported by a screening decision by the  head of the office, etc. 

Prohibition of entry by screening decision  -1 year

1.  A person who has been sentenced to a fine of more than 5 million won and less than 10 million won as a criminal offender 

     => A person who has been sentenced to a fine of less than 5 million won is a re-offender who has a combined sum of fines within the past 5 years or more than 5 million won, or if the number of crimes is 3 or more within the past 5 years, regardless of the penalty Forbidden)

  2. A person who falls under as an immigration offender

    ▶ Violation of Article 18 of the Act (Restriction of Employment of Foreigners), illegal employment without employment qualifications, those who worked outside the designated workplace in employment qualifications, and those who have not hired and are seeking employment, and those who do not have employment qualifications are eligible for employment placement. For self-control

    ▶ A person who has engaged in activities other than the status of residence without permission in violation of Article 20 of the Act (activity outside the status of residence)

    ▶ A person who changes or adds a place of work without permission or report, and employs a person with additional changes in violation of Article 21 of the Act (change of workplace. Addition)

    ▶ A person who has failed to perform other qualification activities or report a change without permission in violation of Article 24 (Permission to Change Status of Residence)

    ▶ Those who have violated Article 25 of the Act (permission to extend the period of stay) and have an illegal period of stay of more than 1 year in June. 

      (=> Even if the period of violation of the law, such as illegal stay, is less than 6 months, a person who has been ordered to eviction is imposed a year of immigration.

    ▶ Those who have been fined and punished for fines of more than 5 million won and less than 7 million won

Prohibition of entry by screening decision  -2 years / 3 years

   1. A person who has been sentenced to a fine of 10 million won or more and less than 20 million won as a criminal offender -> 2 years 

        Fines over 20 million won -> 3 years

   2. A person who falls under as an immigration offender

      ▶ Those who have violated Article 25 of the Act (permission to extend the period of stay) have illegal stays of less than 1 year to 3 years -> 2 years, 3 years to 5 years -> 3 years

      ▶ Those who have been subject to a penalty of more than 7 million won and less than 10 million won -> 2 years / 10 million won or more notification disposition -> 3 years

Prohibition of entry by screening decision  -5 years

  1. A person who has been sentenced to a sentence of imprisonment or imprisonment for not more than 5 years as a criminal offender (including a sentence of probation)

   2. A person who falls under as an immigration offender

       ▶ Those who have violated Article 7-2 of the Act (prohibition of false invitations, etc.) and those who have entered Korea by false invitations.

       ▶ A person who violates Article 12-3 (Prohibition of Providing Ships, etc.) of the Act

       ▶ Violation of Article 4 of Article 18 of the Act (Restriction of Employment of Foreigners). A solicitor

       ▶ Article 21 of the Act (change of workplace. Addition) is arranged by carrying out additional employment of workplace change without permission. Solicitor 

       ▶ A person who has violated Article 25 of the Act (permission to extend the period of stay) and has an illegal stay of 5 years or more 

       ▶ A person who violates Article 33-2 of the Act (Prohibition of providing means for securing the performance of debt, such as alien registration cards) 

  3. A person who has moved to another area in Korea or has arranged for it, etc. without obtaining permission to expand the residence area in violation of Article 157 (1) of the 「Jeju Special Self-Governing Province Act」

  4. A person who has been dismissed for prosecution or more in violation of the Act on the Exercise of Sovereign Rights for Foreign Fisheries, etc. in the Exclusive Economic Zone

  5. A person who has been dispositioned for prosecution or more in violation of the 「territorial sea and access water law」

  6. False immigration officers. Those who have exercised false official documents related to immigration, such as alien registration cards, and mediate them. teacher. Persons related to aiding