South Korea reopens for Indian travellers

South Korea is all set to welcome outbound travellers from India post two years of the COVID-19 Pandemic hitting the world.

Indian travellers can now apply for a short-term (C-3) visa, which allows foreigners to stay up to 90 days for marketing research, travel, visiting relatives, meetings or similar reasons. The visa can be applied physically at the VFS Global centers.

Effective from June 1, 2022, the VFS Global South Korea Visa Application Center, New Delhi and Kolkata would accept all the visa categories including express visa applications. Applicants would need to take a prior appointment to submit the application in New Delhi, however, for Kolkata, applicants can walk in without an appointment to submit the application.

All travellers must provide a negative COVID-19 PCR test result certificate from a PCR test taken within 48 hours prior to departure date, irrespective of their vaccination status. Fully vaccinated individuals are exempt from quarantine.

These individuals must have been fully vaccinated for at least 14 days, but within 180 days, or have received a booster shot (third dosage). Non-vaccinated or individuals who have not completed three doses have to undergo a mandatory quarantine of seven days.