Required Final Documents Downloads
Required Final Documents are documents required to either be eligible for a certain benefit or agree to additional terms. Please ask your recruiter for more information about any of the following documents if you believe you qualify.
Print Single-Sided. Black&white-printed is acceptable.
Make sure to sign in pen in the Signature box(es) on your application.
Print every single page of the application including personal essay and lesson plan. If applicable, print out all the lesson plan materials such as handouts, worksheets, PPT, etc..
The standard passport photo size should be:
- 4.5cm x 3.5cm in height and widthย
- In color
- Printed on thin, photo-quality paper.
- Taken within the past 6 months, showing current appearance.
- Full face, front view with a plain white or off-white background with no patterns
For more information, check out the following – Photo Guideline (Click)
You should complete this Agreement Letter for Security Deposit from with inked signature and submit it along with the final documents. The form is usually included in the employment contract. Click here and download the form –ย GEPIK Security Deposit Agreement
You need to submit a signed confidentiality agreement stating that the teacher will not disclose confidential information about teachers or their school to the public during the term of your employment. Put your full name and the date of signing and sign it in pen. Click here and download the form –ย GEPIK Pledge
Print and submit your up-to-date resume.
If the words appear to be too small, do not worry. Please still print it out.
If the words appear to be too small, do not worry. Please still print it out.
The information page of your passport is needed. Do not send your original passport. A colour copy or a black and white copy; either is fine.
Your passport should be valid for 1.5 years from the point you start your contract.
Proof documents that contain the personal information of parents, spouses, and children, which needed when applying for Fย visa.
There are basic certificates with personal information about yourself. There are further documents required based on purpose of th visa. marriage certificates with personal information about your spouse (F6), a certificate of adoption with information related to adoption (F4), Family registry certificate asking your parents information (F4)
you can apply these documents from the overseas Korean consulate or local Community Center in Korea.
The information page of the passport is needed. A color copy or a black&white copy, either of them is fine.
National Level Criminal Background Checks are only acceptable, and Criminal Background Checks should be apostilled.
- For US citizens, FBI background check with affixed apostille by the US Department of State is needed.
- For Canadian citizens, RCMP background check verified by the Korean consulate in Canada is needed.
Criminal Background Checks are ONLY valid for 6 months after issued. (For instance, if your contract starts in September in Korea, your criminal background check should be issued in March or later in your country)
Please do not remove or detach the apostille/consular seal. The detached or damaged background check is not acceptable and is considered as invalid, and you will have to obtain another one, which will result in a significant delay in the process.
- Criminal Background Check Guideline (Click)
- Criminal Background Check Guideline for Canadian (Click)
*If you have submitted Criminal Background Check to receive your current visa to Korea and are planning to transfer your visa within Korea for your new employment, you are allowed to submit photocopies of the Authenticated documents. For more information, check out the link below,
Print the Agreement of Korean sexual criminal check form. Fill in your information and sign it at the bottom. If you have an ARC (Korean ID) and Korean cell phone number, put the information. Download the form here –ย https://workdrive.zohoexternal.com/external/axgYMmciGMZ-K90cy
If you currently reside in a 3rd country forย two yearsย at the time of applying to any teaching jobs in South Korea, you must obtain a criminal background check from the current country when the Korean immigration office requests for it.
A Notarized and apostilled BA/BS degree is required. Do not send the original diploma to Korea. For more information about the degree requirement, check out the following –ย BA diploma Guideline (Click)
- For US citizens, BA/BS degree can be apostilled at a state level. It doesn’t have to be apostilled in the same state where your university is located, however, it has to be apostilled within the same state where your degree is notarized. The Monument visa can help you to get the notarized and apostilled degree copy. –> Monument Visa Apostille Services
- For Canadian citizens, the Canadian equivalent to an apostille is the Consular Seal affixed by the Korean consulate. Get your degree copy notarized by a certified notary public first and bring the notarized degree copy to the Korean consulate in Canada to get it verified. –> Canada Degree Verification
Please do not remove or detach the apostille/Korean consular seal. Any detached or damaged document is not acceptable and is considered as invalid.
*If you have submitted the apostilled BA degree to Korea to receive your current visa and are planning to transfer your visa within Korea, you are allowed to submit photocopies of the authenticated documents for your new employment. For more information, read the following –> How to get photocopied documents from the immigration/education office
A transcript must reflect all coursework, credits, and grades earned previously that were eventually contributed towards the degree.
If you have attended/transferred more than one college/university, please make sure that your most recent academic transcript states all the coursework credits and grades including your previous academic history. If not, you will have to obtain all academic transcripts from individual colleges/universities you have previously attended.
If you are currently a student, please initially submit your most recent official transcript and submit a finalized official transcript upon graduation.
Please ensure your letters of recommendation include letterhead of the organization,ย ink signatureย of the reference, your full legal name, issue date, phone number, and e-mail address.
The ink signatureย cannotย be written over the electronic signature. The letterhead can be replaced with an official business card. (Images do not count.)
Upon receiving your documents, we will examine both letters and see any signs of a forged signature.
Submit a photocopy of the original certificate or a digital certificate. If you are in progress to take a TEFL/TESOL/CELTA course, you have to submit an official letter proving that you enroll a course from the institute.
If you have submitted photocopy of certification as you final document, you must bring the hardcopy of the certificate with you when entering Korea.
TEFL certification Guideline (Click)
CELTA certification Guideline (Click)

A Sample LCT TEFL Certificate
- TEFL/TESOL certificate
- Teaching certificate
- Or currently working as a full-time teacher
If you have a Master’s degree in Education, ESL or TESOL, you should submit an apostilled copy of the Master’s degree as well as the apostilled BA degree. The Apostilled Master’s degree in the aforementioned discipline is required for a higher salary consideration.
If you have a Master’s degree in another discipline but Education/ESL/TESOL, a photocopy of it will suffice.
A transcript must reflect all coursework, credits, and grades earned previously that were eventually contributed towards the degree.
12. Proof of Full-time Teaching Experience from Institution with Exact Dates (๊ต์ก๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์ฆ๋ช ์)
- Teaching subjects, grades/ages, teaching hours per week, employment period including starting date and end date (MM/DD/YYYY), your status (full time), your full legal name, your tittle, and the written date.
- Director, HR division, Administrative office, Principal, or Vice principal.
- A teaching proof / teaching history letter issued by an Education Office is only acceptable with a public school program such as GEPIK.
- Hagwonย Experience: 1-Year Contract is not sometimes fully verified as Hagwon teachers are only able to be registered to Education Board a few days later from one’s arrival, so your registration date must be double checked to know your exact salary level with GEP IK in advance. You can visit either the Education Office or any Public school’s administration office (as they connect to the Education Office) to request this letter by providing them with your school information. Or you can use a private agency for this: Kimchi Mobile Service (Click for her for EVD service details).ย The form is called ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์ฆ๋ช ์ (Gyong-reok-jeong-myung-seo) in Korean.
- Teaching Experienceย outside of Korea: Only Public School Teaching Experience is recognized and acceptable and must be proved with an official letter with exact contract period and contact information of the institution.
Please submit a printed copy of teacher’s license or certificate.
You have to obtain a license that is valid during the contract.
- Written date
- Letterhead of school
- Contact information including phone number, mailing address, and email address
- Ink signature or school stamp
- Attendance Period (MM/YYYY)
- Stating that the medium of school is English and English only
Homeschooling:
- High school diploma
- High school official transcripts
- Verification letter from either an organization you went through or your parents, if they were the ones who homeschooled you
Please refer to #14.
You need 3 copies of the signed contract; make 3 physical copies of the contract itself (Print out 3 times over, all pages) with your signature signed 3 separate times on each. One out of the signed contract will be submitted to the immigration office for the visa process. You and the school will hold one each.
*For GEPIK teachers, GEPIK Contract requires you to sign every page of the contract and to fill in your information such as your name, ARC number, etc. in the box on the last page of it. You don’t want to miss it!
If you have tattoo(s), please submit a photo of each tattoo.
Print and complete to the best of the knowledge a self-medical checkup that asks standard and general questions about your current health condition.
Click and download the form here –ย E2 Applicant’s Self Health Assessment Form
The Health Check must be completed within three months of arrival as required by immigration laws and may include a TBPE test for drug screening. Public sector (schools) employees are required to submit a medical examination report and undergo an additional Latent Tuberculosis (TB) test. Even for non-E-2 visa holders, if the employer designates the health check as part of the hiring documents, it must be submitted to fulfill the employment contract obligations.
*Marijuana is strictly illegal in Korea.
๐งช What is TBPE (TetraBromoPhenolphthalein Ethylester) Test?
The TBPE test is an in-vitro diagnostic test used for preliminary drug screening.
It is a colorimetric screening test that detects the presence of certain drugs, including:
- โก Methamphetamine (Philopon)
- โก Ephedrine
- โก Caffeine
- โก Heroin
Certain pain medications may cause a false positive in drug tests.
To prevent complications, Korvia strongly advises teachers not to take any medication from one week before departure to Korea until after the medical check-up.
If a drug test result is positive, your contract may be immediately terminated.
โ ๏ธ Important for Non-E-2 Visa Holders:
If your employer requests a health check and you are not on an E-2 visa,
you must still undergo a medical examination and submit your results.
If you are employed at a public school or public institution, you must also provide a Latent Tuberculosis (TB) test result.
The Medical Check-up must be taken at a
government-approved hospital, public health clinic, or general hospital, as required by immigration laws.
Your co-teacher, employer, or director will assist you in finding a hospital near your accommodation.
If you have not received any guidance regarding the medical check within 10 days of arrival, it is recommended that you ask your co-teacher about it.
๐ Health Check Submission:
The results are valid for only 1 month and must be submitted as part of your
Residence Card (Former ARC) application and teacher registration process.
[ What to Prepare for the Medical Check-up ]
- ๐ธ 2โ5 passport-style photos
- ๐ Valid Passport
- ๐ฐ Cost: 60,000~130,000 KRW (Additional copies: 1,000โ5,000 KRW each)
- โ ๏ธ You must fast for at least 8 hours before the test.
- ๐ Some hospitals require appointments and may not accept walk-insโcheck in advance.
- letterhead, contact details of the institution (email and phone number), doctor’s ink signature, written date, your personal information such as your name and date of birth)
If you currently work in Korea, please submit a copy of your RC card (or Residence Card for F visa holders). Front and backside both are needed.
*Since 2023, ARC (Alien Registration Card) has been changed to Residence Card.
Certificate of Entry & Exit (์ถ์ ๊ตญ์ฌ์ค์ฆ๋ช ์)
If you are in Korea teaching English, EPIK requires you to submit a certificate of entry & exit.
You can obtain this certificate by visiting the immigration office or local district office. You can also apply online or via post. Further information is available on the link below. (Unfortunately, the website is in Korean only. Use google translate)
Online certification Registration (click)
The helpline is also available at 1345 (the Korean immigration hotline number)
If you stay outside of Korea for more than 90 days under the E2 visa, you have to submit a new set of work documents, including your CRC, diploma, and transcripts. If you are unsure, please check back with us.
Application For Confirmation of Visa Issuance you submit at the immigration office. We write this application on behalf of applicants. So please fill out the visa information form correctly.
์ ๊ท ์ฑ์ฉํ ์์ด๋ฏผ์ E2 ๋น์ (์ฌ์ฆ) ์ ์ฒญ์ ํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์ถ์ ๊ตญ์ฌ๋ฌด์์ ์ ์ถํ๋ ์ ์ฒญ์ ์์์ด๋ฏ๋ก, ์ ํํ ๋ด์ฉ์ด ๊ธฐ์ฌ๋์ด์ผ ํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ค์ ๋งํฌ๋ฅผ ํตํด ๋ค์ด๋ก๋ ๊ฐ๋ฅํฉ๋๋ค. ย ์ฌ์ฆ๋ฐ๊ธ์ธ์ ์ ์ฒญ์ ์์ Click!
Immigration Application form when you apply for ARC, visa extension etc at the immigration office.
์ ๊ท ์ฑ์ฉํ ์์ด๋ฏผ์ด ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋ฑ๋ก์ฆ (ARC)์ ์ ์ฒญํ๊ฑฐ๋ ์ฐ์ฅ์ ํ ๋ ์ถ์ ๊ตญ์ฌ๋ฌด์์ ์ ์ถํด์ผ ํฉ๋๋ค.
The form reporting on alteration or additional of employment place. If you plan to move to a new school or add an additional employment, you must submit this form at the immigration office.
์์ด๋ฏผ์ด ๊ทผ๋ฌด์ฒ๋ฅผ ๋ณ๊ฒฝํ๊ฑฐ๋ ์ถ๊ฐ ์ ์ถ์ ๊ตญ์ฌ๋ฌด์์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์ฒ๋ณ๊ฒฝ์ ๊ณ ์๋ฅผ ์ ์ถํด์ผ ํฉ๋๋ค.
- Obtain ์๋ณธ๋์กฐํ/Certified copies:ย You should travel to your MOE/POE. You have to retrieve the copies stamped by the MOE/POE withย a verification stamp (์๋ณธ๋์กฐํ). The stamp should be accompanied with the date, the title of the officer & name, and the MOE/POE. (Just a ์๋ณธ๋์กฐํ stamp is not fit for purpose.)
- Obtain ์ฆ์๊ณต๊ฐ์, ์ ๋ณด๊ณต๊ฐ์ฒญ๊ตฌ์/Immediate Information Disclosure:ย You need to go to the immigration office. You may retrieve the copies along with ์ฆ์๊ณต๊ฐ์, ์ ๋ณด๊ณต๊ฐ์ฒญ๊ตฌ์. (Without ์ฆ์๊ณต๊ฐ์, ์ ๋ณด๊ณต๊ฐ์ฒญ๊ตฌ์, photocopies are invalid.)
Application form when you move to new residence in Korea. You must submit it within 14 days since when you move, or you get fined. You need to file a move-in report to the head of the city(์)/county(๊ตฐ) /district(๊ตฌ), or the head of the immigration service office with jurisdiction over the new place of residence.
๊ฑฐ์์ ๊ณ ์ฆ(Residence Registration Card)๋ E2์์ด๋ฏผ๋ค์ด ์ ์ฒญํ๋ ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ ๋ฑ๋ก์ฆ(ARC/Alien Registration Card)์ ์ ์ฌํ๋, F4๋น์ ์์ง์์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ, ์ผ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ต์ 2๋ ์ ์ฒด๋ฅํ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ด๊ณ์์ด ํ๊ตญ๋ด ์ฒด๋ฅ ๊ฐ๋ฅํฉ๋๋ค.
๊ฑฐ์์ ๊ณ ์ฆ ์ ์ฒญ์ ์ํด F4๋น์ ์์ง์์ธ ์์ด๋ฏผ ๊ฐ์ฌ๋ ๊ดํ ์ถ์ ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋ฌด์๋ฅผ ์ง์ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ์ฌ ์ง๋ฌธ์ฒด์ทจ๋ฅผ ํ๊ฒ ๋๋ฉฐ, ์ ์ฒญ์ ์ ํ ์ฝ 2~4์ฃผ ํ ๊ฑฐ์์ ๊ณ ์ฆ ์นด๋๊ฐ ๋ฐ๊ธ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ๊ฑฐ์์ ๊ณ ์ฆ ์นด๋๋ ์ง์ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ ํน์ ํ๋ฐฐ ์๋น์ค๋ฅผ ํตํด ์๋ น๊ฐ๋ฅํ๋, ํ๋ฐฐ ์๋น์ค๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํ์ง ์๋ ์ถ์ ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋ฌด์๊ฐ ์๋ ์ , ์ ์ํ์๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค.
A Business registration certificate issued by jurisdiction of the tax office. Verification that a contractor or subcontractor is registered as individual business.
์์ด๋ฏผ ์ ๊ท ์ฑ์ฉ ๋๋ ์ด์ ์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์ฒ์ ์ฌ์ ์๋ฑ๋ก์ฆ ๋๋ ๊ณ ์ ๋ฒํธ์ฆ ์ฌ๋ณธ์ ์ถ์ ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋ฌด์์ ์ ์ถํด์ผ ํฉ๋๋ค.
A document proving the present state and history of institution.
ํ๊ต์ฅ์ ์๋ช /์ง์ธ์ด ์ฐํ ํ๊ต์ ํํฉ ๋ฐ ์ฐํํ๋ฅผ ์ถ์ ๊ตญ์ฌ๋ฌด์์ ์ ์ถํด์ผ ํฉ๋๋ค.
A form that states the current status of foreign English teachers working at the school.
ํ์ฌ ํ์์์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด ์ค์ธ ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ ๊ฐ์ฌ์ ํํฉ์ ์ถ์ ๊ตญ์ฌ๋ฌด์์ ์ ์ถํด์ผ ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ถ์ ๊ตญ์ฌ๋ฌด์์ ๋ฑ๋ก๋ ๋ชจ๋ ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ ๊ฐ์ฌ์ ์ ๋ณด๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์ ํด์ผ ํฉ๋๋ค.
**ํ์์ฉ ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ๊ฐ์ฌ ํํฉํ ์์ (ํด๋ฆญํ์ฌ ๋ค์ด๋ก๋)
When you register your residence or report the change of residence to the immigration office in Korea, you should submit the proof of it. The most important proof is the contract copy.
Prepare a photocopy of the housing lease contract like the following.
1. If you live in a place your employer provides, get a copy of the housing lease contract from him/her.
2. If you have your own housing, you prepare a photocopy of the contract.
3. If you have a place to live but your name is not on the lease, get it from the person whose name is on the lease.
Make sure the housing contract covers your full employment period.
๊ฑฐ์ฃผ/์์์ ๊ณต ํ์ธ์ in Korean
When you register your residence or report the change of residence to the immigration office in Korea, you should submit the proof of it. One of the proof is the signed Confirmation of Residence/Accommodation. Put all of your information in the section 1. Section 2 should be taken care of by the housing provider.
You will need the confirmation of residence in the case of no. 1 or no. 2 only.
- If you live in the place the employer provides, you should get the signed confirmation of residence from him/her.
- If you have a place of residence but your name is not on the lease, you should prepare the confirmation of residence along with a copy of the ID of the person whose name is on the lease as well.
- If you have your own housing and your name is on the lease, you don’t need the confirmation of residence.
ํ๊ต ๋๋ ํ์์์ ์์ด๋ฏผ์๊ฒ ์์๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํ๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ, ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ/์์์ ๊ณต ํ์ธ์๋ฅผ ์ถ์ ๊ตญ์ฌ๋ฌด์์ ์ ์ถํด์ผ ํฉ๋๋ค. ํ๊ต์ฅ ๋๋ ๊ธฐ๊ด์ ์๋ช ์ด๋ ์ง์ธ์ด ๋ฐ๋์ ํ์ํฉ๋๋ค.
The NET Program Operation Plan outlines the procedures and strategies for implementing the program, including program schedule and curriculum plan to enhance English language education and promote cultural exchange.
๊ฐ์ฌ ํ์ฉ ๊ณํ์๋ ์์ด๋ฏผ๊ฐ์ฌ๋ค์ ๊ธฐ์ ๊ณผ ์ ๋ฌธ์ฑ์ ํจ๊ณผ์ ์ผ๋ก ํ์ฉํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์กฐ์ง์ด๋ ๊ต์ก๊ธฐ๊ด์์ ์๋ฆฝํ๋ ๊ณํ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด ๊ณํ์ ๊ฐ์ฌ๋ฅผ ์ ์ ํ ๊ณผ์ ์ด๋ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ์ ์ ํํ๊ณ ๋ฐฐ์ ํ๋ ์ ๋ต, ์ปค๋ฆฌํ๋ผ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ ์๋ฃ ๊ฐ๋ฐ, ์์ ์ผ์ ์กฐ์ , ์ง์์ ์ธ ์ ๋ฌธ ๊ฐ๋ฐ ์ ๊ณต, ์ฑ๊ณผ ํ๊ฐ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ฌ๋ค ๊ฐ์ ํ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ์ง์์ ์ด์งํ๋ ๋ฐฉ์์ ํฌํจํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ฐ์ฌ ํ์ฉ ๊ณํ์ ๊ฐ์ฌ๋ค์ ์ํฅ๋ ฅ์ ๊ทน๋ํํ๊ณ ํ์๋ค์๊ฒ ํ์ง ๋์ ๊ต์ก ๊ฒฝํ์ ์ ๊ณตํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ชฉํ๋ก ํฉ๋๋ค.
Proof of employment of someone to act as the grantor’s agent.
์ฌ์ ์๋ฑ๋ก์ฆ ๋๋ ๊ณ ์ ๋ฒํธ์ฆ ์์ ๋ํ์ ๋์ ์ ๋ฌด ์ฒ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ๋ ์ฌ๋์ ์ฌ์ง์ฆ๋ช ์.
ID card of someone to act as the grantor’s agent.
์ฌ์ ์๋ฑ๋ก์ฆ ๋๋ ๊ณ ์ ๋ฒํธ์ฆ ์์ ๋ํ์ ๋์ ์ ๋ฌด ์ฒ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ๋ ์ฌ๋์ ์ ๋ถ์ฆ.
A teacher who is currently in the process of finishing a teaching contract in Korea and have already employment at a new school must submit Statement on Salary Income Payment (๊ทผ๋ก์๋์์ฒ์ง์ ์์์ฆ) from the current school at the immigration office for the visa transfer.
E2 ๋น์ ์ด์ ์ ํ๋ ์์ด๋ฏผ์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ ์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์ฒ์ ๊ทผ๋ก์๋์์ฒ์ง์ ์์์ฆ์ ์ถ์ ๊ตญ๊ด๋ฆฌ์ฌ๋ฌด์์ ์ ์ถํด์ผ ํฉ๋๋ค.
์๋๊ธ์ก์ฆ๋ช ์ in Korean. You can obtain this document from the local tax office. It applies to a teacher who has taught in Korea for more than 2 consecutive years.
์ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ง์ ๋ฐ ์ฐ๊ฐ์๋๊ธ์ก์ ๊ณ ์ in Korean. Download the form and fill it out in pen. Click the following and download it – ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ง์ ๋ฐ ์ฐ๊ฐ์๋๊ธ์ก์ ๊ณ ์































