Guide
Guide for Foreign Job Seekers
Anyone can inquire. Actual introductions proceed after a counselor checks your residence status, permitted employment activities and the actual work.
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This page is a translation. If it differs in meaning from the Korean original, the Korean original prevails.
Intake steps
How it works
Choose a language
Read the guidance in the language you prefer: Korean, English, Chinese (Simplified), Vietnamese, Mongolian or Uzbek.
Inquiry
Leave your contact details, desired work, preferred language and residence status type.
Korean communication check
By phone or in person, we check that you can understand start times, work instructions and safety guidance.
Residence status check
We check your residence status and the scope of permitted employment activities.
Actual duties check
We judge eligibility based on the work you'll actually do, not the job title.
Result
We'll tell you one of three outcomes: proceed with a regular introduction, guidance on an official government procedure, or on hold.
Korean
Korean level needed
You need enough Korean to understand work instructions and safety rules and to communicate at a basic level on site.
After your inquiry, we check through a phone or in-person consultation whether you can handle general communication such as start times, work instructions and safety guidance.
Eligibility to work is checked based on residence status and permitted employment activities, not nationality.
Residence status
What depends on your residence status
- For Working Visit (H-2), Non-professional Employment (E-9) and similar statuses, we accept inquiries, but we check the official government procedures such as Job Centers and the Employment Permit System (EPS) and proceed only within that scope.
- For Overseas Koreans (F-4), restricted employment activities are set by public notice, so for some work such as cleaning or security we check the latest notice against the actual duties.
- For other residence statuses too, a counselor checks the scope of permitted employment activities before advising. Eligibility is never decided automatically.
Inquire in the language you prefer
Consultations are held in Korean; written guidance is available in six languages.