South Korea Corporate Investment Visa (D-8)

1. Renewrenewable
2. Permanent residencyafter 5 years
3. Citizenshipafter 5 years

• Permanent residency 5 years
• Citizenship 5 years
• Dual citizenship not allowed
• Language required for citizenship KIIP level 5

Country

South Korea

Program

South Korea Corporate Investment Visa (D-8)

Local name

기업투자(D-8)

Type

Entrepreneur

Status

Active

Renewable

Yes

Residence for an essential manager or specialist of a Korean foreign-invested company, or for the foreigner who invests at least KRW 100 million and runs that company. Work is the management, administration, production or technology of that company. A spouse and underage children can receive dependent status.

Tax regime

Remittance

Regime name

Foreign resident, first five years

Regime duration

5 years

Foreign income taxed

Yes

Capital gains taxed

Yes

Method

embassy, in country

Apply from abroad

Yes

KOTRA's visa guide states the company threshold as KRW 100 million brought in from abroad under the Foreign Investment Promotion Act. The same figure is the "current" statutory standard in the immigration visa navigator's permanent-residence note for D-8. The KOTRA guide cited is the 2023 edition (KOTRA 23-017). KOTRA's repository also lists a 2026 edition. USD uses KRW 1,342.80 per USD on 9 October 2026. The visa also covers staff dispatched from the foreign parent or from the investor. It is not permission to take any job in Korea. KOTRA says the spouse and underage children receive F-3 for the same period as the principal. Parents are not included on that page. KOTRA says D-8 holders are exempt from listed status-of-stay fees, including extension and change of status. The initial visa fee is not on that exemption list. The fee shown is the statutory unlimited multiple-entry charge of USD 90 per person, and the same USD 90 applies to a dependent visa. The visa navigator's ordinary permanent-residence line for someone on D-7 through D-10 is more than five years in Korea, with conduct, livelihood and basic attainment. Social Integration Program level 5 meets the basic-attainment part of that ordinary route. A separate high-investment permanent-residence line in the same booklet, USD 500,000 and five Korean employees, was not copied into the investment options because the booklet's other investor prices are out of date. No single sojourn length for D-8 is printed in the pages read. General naturalization is five continuous years of address and requires permanent residence.

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1. Oct 10, 2026

   Added

   added the D-8 corporate-investment residence at KRW 100 million, with F-3 dependants and ordinary permanent residence after five years on this class of status (dl.kotra.or.kr).