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Hello.

This is the post for the foreigners who want to register in Korea.
Especially the international students.
If you want to register and live in Korea, then you have to get the Alien Registration Card(ARC).
There are some Visas that can register in Korea and get the ARC.

In the next post, I am going to explain the Visas. But this post is about Registration.
There are many qualifications to get the visas, likes studying, business, or marriage.
Anyway, if you got a visa, then you have to register in the Immigration office.

Following the regulation, if the foreigner wants to stay in Korea for more than 90 days, he(or she) has to register in the Immigration office and get to the ARC.

The foreigner has to register to the Immigration office, which has jurisdiction in the foreigner's area less than 90 days.

For example, you are a foreigner and staying in Gangnam-gu, Seoul. Then you have to go to the Seoul Immigration Office, which locates in Yangcheon-gu, Seoul.

But nowadays the spread of COVID, someone who wants to visit the Immigration office has to reserve.
You can reserve online.
http://www.hikorea.go.kr

Click the Reserve Visit.

And click the Non-member reserve. If you are a member of hikorea, then you can select the 'Member'.

That pop-up warning means you have to consider your visa expiration date. If you reserve too far and your visa is expired, then you can have disadvantages.

And you have to choose one. You have an Alien Registration Number, then pick the first one and enter your information. But most of you don't have the Alien Registration Number, so maybe you'd better pick the others.

After inputting the information,

You have to select the Immigration office which has jurisdiction over your residence area.
https://www.immigration.go.kr/immigration/2057/subview.do

I had some difficulties finding that page in English. So I just uploaded the link to the Korean one.
There could be differences between areas that are even in the same gu-district.

On that page, you can choose what kinds of work you want to deal with this time.
In this post, we supposed that you are the one who wants to register in Korea at first.
So let's select the first one.
If you have no Korean phone number, you don't have to fill in the number tab. But you have to bring the reservation certificate when you visit the Immigration office.

If you want to make the Alien Registration Card, there are the requirements to prepare.

1. Passport
2. Photo(3cm X 4cm) 2 copies
3. the application form
4. 30,000won by cash
5. the documents that prove your residence
6. the documents about your residence qualification(such as admission letter of university, proof of enrollment, receipt of admission fee, and so on)
- the documents about residence qualification depend on your qualification type. So you have to call the Immigration center and check the documents again, the number is '1345'.

This post is based on the site of the Immigration office.