2024-04-17BY Immikorea

To drive in South Korea, foreigners must enter the country with an International Driver’s Permit.
However, you can change your international driver’s license to a Korean driver’s license if you get a long-term visa that allows you to stay in Korea for more than 90 days and get an alien registration card.
Foreign license holders from countries that recognize Korean driver’s licenses can change to a Korean driver’s license with a simple vision test and no examination. Holders of driver’s licenses from countries that do not recognize Korean driver’s licenses can exchange them after a vision test and a simple academic test (exempt from the skills test and road test).
The driver’s license exchange process is as follows and can be done on the same day of your visit.
Visit a driver’s license testing site |
Check the official in charge after submitting the application documents |
Complete an eye exam and application |
Submit your application and pay the fee |
Completed the exchange of my South Korean driver’s license |
If you need your foreign driver’s license to leave the country, you can get it back by showing your outbound plane ticket.
After that, you can keep both.
Most documents are easy to prepare, but to verify the authenticity of your driver’s license, you’ll need to bring a letter from your country’s embassy in Korea or a document that has been through the apostille process.
Apostille of driver’s license is also available in South Korea.
- Original foreign driver’s license
- ID (Alien Registration Card, Resident Registration Card)
- Embassy confirmation or apostille documentation for foreign driver’s license
- Original passport
- 3 photos (taken within the last 6 months)
- Immigration documentation (proving you’ve been in the country for at least 90 days at the time of licensure)
- Issuance fees, physical examination fees
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