Corrections and verification log
A site that never publishes a correction is not a site that never gets anything wrong. Here is everything this site has had to fix.
Korean administrative rules move constantly, and secondary sources repeat each other's errors for years. This page exists so you can judge how carefully this site is maintained rather than take a claim about it on trust. It records two things: substantive corrections — where a figure published here was wrong — and verification passes, where every number in a dataset was re-checked against the authority that issues it, whether or not anything changed.
Corrections found by readers are logged here on the same terms as ones found in review, with thanks.
Substantive corrections
F-5 permanent residence income floor
Was — incorrect
₩88,000,000, published as a fixed amount
Is now — corrected
2 × GNI per capita — about ₩105,140,000
What was wrong. The general permanent residence route (F-5-1) does not have a fixed income threshold. The requirement is twice the previous year's GNI per capita 국민총소득, which moves every year. The figure published here was the result of that calculation done against an out-of-date GNI, with the rule behind it discarded — so it aged silently into a number that was roughly ₩17m too low.
What settled it. The Bank of Korea's 2025 national accounts release of 9 June 2026 puts GNI per capita at ₩52,570,000, giving ₩105,140,000 at the statutory multiple. Note that immigration offices refresh their operative GNI figure around April and can lag the newest Bank of Korea release — practice sources in the first half of 2026 were still quoting ₩104,830,000. The office's figure governs on your filing date, not the newest published one.
What changed beyond the number. The multiple is now stored alongside the amount, and an automated test fails if the figure is ever written back as a fixed number. The same class of error is what produced it in the first place.
F-5 language requirement
Was — incorrect
TOPIK level 3
Is now — corrected
KIIP stage 5 completed, or 60+ on the 영주용 종합평가
What was wrong. This was not a stale figure but a wrong requirement. A TOPIK certificate at any level does not by itself satisfy the F-5-1 integration condition. The condition is completion of the Social Integration Program at stage 5, or a mark of 60 or better out of 100 on the permanent-residence comprehensive assessment taken without completing the course. Anyone who read the earlier version and prepared for TOPIK 3 would have arrived at the office short of the actual requirement.
Source: Ministry of Justice — HiKorea
D-10 job seeker pass mark
Was — incorrect
20 points
Is now — corrected
60 of 190 overall, and at least 20 from the basic items
What was wrong. Two separate thresholds had been collapsed into one. Twenty points is the minimum that must come from the basic items; the overall pass mark is 60 out of 190, and nationals of 21 designated countries need 80 rather than 60. Published as a single 20-point bar, it understated the requirement by a wide margin.
Source: Ministry of Justice — HiKorea
Limited account 한도계좌 transfer caps
Was — incorrect
₩300,000 electronic, ₩1,000,000 ATM
Is now — corrected
₩1,000,000 electronic, ₩1,000,000 ATM, ₩3,000,000 in branch
What was wrong. The figures predated the Financial Services Commission's increase of 2 May 2024 and had been carried forward unchanged. These limits are set by the regulator, so they are identical at every Korean bank — a branch cannot raise them for you, though a bank may apply lower ones, and an account flagged in a fraud investigation is cut back to ₩300,000.
Source: Financial Services Commission
Verification passes
A pass is a re-check of every figure in a dataset against the authority that issues it, whether or not anything turns out to be wrong. Passes that changed nothing are listed here too — that is the point of them.
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31 July 2026
Full re-verification of every published figure across the visa, points and tax datasets. Four corrections resulted, all listed above; the F-2-7 scoring table and the tax dataset held up unchanged.
What was checked, and what held up
Every numeric threshold was re-checked against the issuing authority or, where no authority publishes in a usable form, against multiple independent Korean immigration-practice sources.
- The F-2-7 scoring table — no changes. Five independent sources were compared band by band and agree on all of it: 130 common points plus bonuses capped at 40, a 170 maximum, an 80-point pass mark and a −70 deduction floor. Where one source disagreed on a single band, the other four settled it.
- The tax dataset — no changes. All eight progressive brackets and their quick deductions, the earned income deduction formula and its ₩20m cap were read directly off National Tax Service pages. The 2026 health insurance rate (7.19%) and long-term care rate (0.9448%) are confirmed by Ministry of Health and Welfare releases; the national pension rate of 9.5% and the contribution base ceiling of ₩6,590,000 and floor of ₩410,000 for 1 July 2026 to 30 June 2027 by the ministerial notice. The 19% flat-rate election, its twenty-year window and its 31 December 2026 start-work deadline were confirmed against the Restriction of Special Taxation Act commentary.
The same pass also added material that had been missing rather than wrong: the four F-2-7 application routes (the score is only half the test — you must also fall into one of them), the E-7-4 salary floor, the F-6 sponsor income requirement by household size, and the D-8 voting-share condition.
How to report an error
The most useful correction gives the page URL, the exact wording that is wrong, and a link to the authority that says otherwise. Those get made the same week and appear here. Corrections without a source are still investigated — they just take longer, because the source has to be found first.
Reports of what actually happened at a counter are worth as much as statutory ones. Where this site describes a process rather than a rule, reader accounts are the only correction mechanism available to it.
This log is not a guarantee of accuracy. It records the errors that have been found, which is not the same as the errors that exist. Before acting on any figure here — a filing, a contract, a tax election — check it against the authority that issues it, or against a licensed professional.