South Korea Plans to Grant Visa-Free Access to Indonesian Citizens

South Korea Plans to Grant Visa-Free Access for Indonesian Citizens

Dream - South Korea (Korea Selatan or Korsel) will strive to facilitate visa-free access for Indonesian tourists, who have consistently ranked among the top 10 countries with the highest number of foreign tourists visiting the Land of Ginseng in recent years.

South Korea Plans to Grant Visa-Free Access to Indonesian Citizens

"Actually, the data keeps changing, but every year it always enters the Top 10. Positions 8, 9, 10," said Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) Jakarta PR & Media, Novi Nursyahbani, as quoted from Liputan6.com, Saturday, July 13, 2024. By the end of 2024, South Korea targets 300 thousand tourist visits from Indonesia, slightly higher than the achievement in 2019 which reached 278 thousand. She is optimistic that the number can be achieved considering the number of Indonesian tourist visits to South Korea this year until May 2024 has reached 135 thousand tourists."

With a high target of visits, South Korea is considering a visa-free policy for Indonesian tourists. However, so far, it has not been implemented. The Korean Consulate for Visit at the South Korean Embassy in Jakarta, Lee Sungyong, stated that they will strive to make the visa-free facility for Indonesian citizens a reality.

"To enhance human exchanges between Indonesia and Korea, a visa-free policy should be implemented. Therefore, the Korean Embassy will make further efforts to ensure that the visa-free policy (for Indonesian tourists) can be realized,""
say Lee Sungyong.

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"For that reason, they promote a number of visas that can be used by Indonesian tourists to visit South Korea. One of them is a multiple entry visa. Sungyong explained that the visa can be used to enter and exit South Korea for 5 or 10 years, without any minimum visits. There are 24 groups that can apply for this type of visa, including civil servants, professors or teachers, university graduates in Korea, and diplomats."

The advantage of this visa application is that they do not need to include financial documents or bank statements. However, there are various requirements that must be met. Among them, having visited Korea once or having visited OECD countries and others.

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The majority of Indonesian tourists come to visit a number of tourist attractions in popular Korean dramas or influenced by K-pop. The next interest in visiting is driven by medical tourism or health tourism, particularly plastic surgery.

"Indonesian people are mostly fans of K-pop, so K-pop tourism comes first, then medical tourism, and shopping,""
"ujar Novi." translates to "said Novi."

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South Korea Plans to Grant Visa-Free Access for Indonesian Citizens

"To enhance human exchanges between Indonesia and Korea, a visa-free policy should be implemented. Therefore, the Korean Embassy will make further efforts to ensure that the visa-free policy (for Indonesian tourists) can be realized,""say Lee Sungyong.

"Indonesian people are mostly fans of K-pop, so K-pop tourism comes first, then medical tourism, and shopping,"""ujar Novi." translates to "said Novi."

"To enhance human exchanges between Indonesia and Korea, a visa-free policy should be implemented. Therefore, the Korean Embassy will make further efforts to ensure that the visa-free policy (for Indonesian tourists) can be realized,""
say Lee Sungyong.

"Indonesian people are mostly fans of K-pop, so K-pop tourism comes first, then medical tourism, and shopping,""
"ujar Novi." translates to "said Novi."