Six Months Before You May Buy In, Unless Your Status Is One of Four - and the Bill Falls Due Before the Month You Are Paying For
National Health Insurance is compulsory in Korea and article 109 of the National Health Insurance Act is the article that decides how a foreigner gets into it. Employment is the easy route: a foreigner working at a covered workplace becomes an employee-insured person automatically, with no waiting period, provided they are on the resident register, have reported a domestic place of residence as an overseas Korean, or have completed alien registration under article 31 of the Immigration Act. Everyone else has to qualify as a self-employed insured person under article 109(3), and that is where the waiting period lives. The Act does not state it: it delegates both the period and the grounds to a Ministry of Health and Welfare ordinance, and article 61-2(1) of the Enforcement Rules fills in six months or more - or, instead of the six months, one of four statuses that are taken as evidence of continuous residence from the start: permanent residence under article 10(2) of the Immigration Act, non-professional employment E-9, marriage migration, and whichever study or general training statuses the Minister designates by notice. A second table, Attached Table 9 of the same Rules, lists the statuses that can be self-employed insured at all - the D, E, F, H families, plus G-1 limited to humanitarian-stay permission holders and persons the Service designates. Since 2 January 2024 a dependent of an employee-insured foreigner has had to meet the same residence test, with the spouse and children under nineteen excepted by name. Two things then apply to a foreign self-employed insured person and to nobody else: the contribution is due by the 25th of the month before the month it covers, where everyone else pays by the 10th of the month after; and arrears stop benefits from the day of the arrears until the debt is cleared, with the reliefs other debtors get switched off. The Constitutional Court found that last rule incompatible with the Constitution on 26 September 2023, and the statute carries the amendment that followed, dated 22 October 2024, in a note under the article.
At a glance
- Waiting period before a foreigner may be a self-employed insured person
- Six months or more of residence in Korea
Article 61-2(1) of the Enforcement Rules of the National Health Insurance Act, which fills in the period article 109(3)1 of the Act leaves to a ministerial ordinance.
- Statuses that skip the six months
- Permanent residence, non-professional employment E-9, marriage migration, and the study or general training statuses the Minister designates by notice
The four grounds in article 61-2(1)1 to 4 of the Enforcement Rules. They are drafted as alternatives to the period, not exemptions from the insurance.
- Employee insured
- No waiting period at all
Article 109(2) of the National Health Insurance Act. It imposes registration conditions and no period of residence.
- Dependants of an employee-insured foreigner
- Must meet the same residence test, except the spouse and children under 19
Article 109(4)3 of the Act, added on 2 January 2024. The exception names the employee's spouse and children under nineteen, including the spouse's children.
- When the contribution falls due for a foreign self-employed insured person
- By the 25th of the preceding month
Article 109(8) of the Act. Article 78(1) puts everyone else's contribution for a month on the 10th of the month after it, so the foreign subscriber pays about sixteen days before the month begins and everyone else ten days after it ends.
- Effect of arrears on a foreign self-employed insured person
- No benefits from the day of the arrears until the arrears are paid in full
Article 109(10) of the Act. The sentence then disapplies the proviso to article 53(3) and the whole of article 53(5) and (6), which are the instalment and retrospective-recognition reliefs available to other debtors.
- Constitutional Court
- Article 109(10) was held incompatible with the Constitution on 26 September 2023 and amended on 22 October 2024
The note printed under article 109 in the state's consolidated text says so, and the same amendment added paragraph 11 allowing a Presidential Decree to provide differently in the light of a person's status and period of stay.
- Statuses eligible for the self-employed route
- The D, E, F and H families, with G-1 limited to humanitarian-stay permission holders and persons the Service designates
Attached Table 9 of the Enforcement Rules of the National Health Insurance Act, as amended on 4 October 2024. B and C statuses - the visitor statuses - do not appear.
- Opting out
- Possible only where equivalent cover exists under foreign law, foreign insurance or a contract with the employer, and only on an application
Article 109(5)2 of the Act. The application is made by the employer or the insured person under a ministerial ordinance, not granted automatically.
Requirements
- Alien registration under article 31 of the Immigration Act, a domestic place-of-residence report as an overseas Korean, or resident registration
- Employment at a covered workplace - which makes you employee-insured with no waiting period
- or six months of residence in Korea, or one of the four statuses the Enforcement Rules treat as proof of continuous residence
- and a status of residence listed in Attached Table 9 of the Enforcement Rules, for the self-employed route
- No exclusion request on file from you or your employer on the basis of equivalent foreign cover
In detail
The waiting period is not in the Act
Article 109(3)1 of the National Health Insurance Act says a foreigner qualifies as a self-employed insured person if they have resided in Korea for the period prescribed by Decree of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, or fall within grounds prescribed by the same Decree for expecting continuous residence. Both halves are blank in the statute. The number - six months or more - is in article 61-2(1) of the Enforcement Rules, which a reader of the Act alone will never see, and the four grounds that replace it are in the same sentence. That is also where a change would happen: a ministerial ordinance moves faster than an Act, and the period has moved before.
What the four alternative grounds have in common
Permanent residence, E-9 non-professional employment, marriage migration and the designated study statuses are not exemptions from insurance - they are ways of proving at the outset what six months of residence would otherwise prove. Each is a status that in practice means the holder is staying. The effect is that the people most likely to need cover early, including workers brought in under the employment permit system and spouses of Korean nationals, are insured from the start, while a self-funded resident on another status waits half a year.
Two rules that apply to foreigners and to nobody else
Article 78(1) puts a month's contribution on the 10th of the following month. Article 109(8) moves a foreign self-employed subscriber's to the 25th of the preceding month - paying in advance rather than in arrears, a difference of about five weeks in working capital. Article 109(10) then removes the cushion: arrears stop benefits from the day they arise until they are cleared, and the instalment arrangement and the retrospective recognition of treatment received during a suspension, both available under article 53 to a Korean debtor, are switched off by name. The statute itself records that this was taken to the Constitutional Court and lost: a note under the article says the paragraph was amended on 22 October 2024 to give effect to a finding of unconstitutionality made on 26 September 2023, and a new paragraph 11 now lets a Presidential Decree soften it according to status and length of stay. That Decree was not read for this record.
Visitors are not in the table
Attached Table 9 of the Enforcement Rules lists which statuses may hold self-employed insured status at all, and the list begins at D-1 and runs through the E, F and H families, with G-1 cut down to holders of humanitarian-stay permission under the Refugee Act and persons the Service designates. Nothing in the B or C families appears, so a visitor admitted under a visa exemption or for tourism has no route into National Health Insurance however long they stay - which is consistent with those statuses being capped at 90 days in the first place.
Exceptions by origin
No exceptions recorded
Nothing we have read treats any nationality differently for this topic. The rule above applies to everyone.
What the law says
«③ 제2항에 따른 직장가입자에 해당하지 아니하는 국내체류 외국인등이 다음 각 호의 요건을 모두 갖춘 경우에는 제5조 에도 불구하고 지역가입자가 된다. <신설 2016. 3. 22., 2019. 1. 15.> 1. 보건복지부령 으로 정하는 기간 동안 국내에 거주하였거나 해당 기간 동안 국내에 지속적으로 거주할 것으로 예상할 수 있는 사유로서 보건복지부령 으로 정하는 사유에 해당될 것 2. 다음 각 목의 어느 하나에 해당할 것 가. 제2항제1호 또는 제2호에 해당하는 사람 나. 「출입국관리법」 제31조 에 따라 외국인등록을 한 사람으로서 보건복지부령 으로 정하는 체류자격이 있는 사람»About this source
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«제61조의2(외국인 등의 지역가입자 자격취득 신고 등) ① 법 제109조 제3항 제1호 에서 “보건복지부령으로 정하는 기간”이란 6개월 이상의 기간을 말하고, “보건복지부령으로 정하는 사유”란 다음 각 호의 어느 하나에 해당하는 경우를 말한다. <개정 2018. 12. 18., 2019. 7. 16., 2021. 2. 26., 2021. 10. 14.> 1. 「출입국관리법」 제10조 제2호 에 따른 영주자격을 받은 경우 2. 「출입국관리법 시행령」 별표 1의2 제21호에 따른 비전문취업(E-9)의 체류자격을 받은 경우 3. 「출입국관리법 시행령」 별표 1의2 제27호에 따른 결혼이민의 체류자격을 받은 경우 4. 보건복지부장관이 정하여 고시하는 유학 또는 일반연수의 체류자격을 받은 경우»Our translation - not official
Article 61-2 (Reporting acquisition of self-employed insured status by foreigners and others) (1) The period prescribed by Decree of the Ministry of Health and Welfare in article 109(3)1 of the Act means a period of six months or more, and the grounds prescribed by Decree of the Ministry of Health and Welfare mean any of the following: 1. where permanent residence under article 10(2) of the Immigration Act has been granted; 2. where the status of non-professional employment (E-9) under item 21 of Attached Table 1-2 of the Enforcement Decree of the Immigration Act has been granted; 3. where the status of marriage migration under item 27 of Attached Table 1-2 of the Enforcement Decree of the Immigration Act has been granted; 4. where a status of study or general training designated and published by the Minister of Health and Welfare has been granted.
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«④ 제2항 각 호의 어느 하나에 해당하는 국내체류 외국인등이 다음 각 호의 요건을 모두 갖춘 경우에는 제5조 에도 불구하고 공단에 신청하면 피부양자가 될 수 있다. <신설 2016. 3. 22., 2024. 1. 2.> 1. 직장가입자와의 관계가 제5조 제2항 각 호의 어느 하나에 해당할 것 2. 제5조 제3항 에 따른 피부양자 자격의 인정 기준에 해당할 것 3. 국내 거주기간 또는 거주사유가 제3항제1호에 따른 기준에 해당할 것. 다만, 직장가입자의 배우자 및 19세 미만 자녀(배우자의 자녀를 포함한다)에 대해서는 그러하지 아니하다.»Subparagraph 3 is the part added on 2 January 2024. Before it, a dependant of an employee-insured foreigner faced no residence test.
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«3. The period of residence or grounds for residence in the Republic of Korea shall meet the criteria prescribed in paragraph (3)1; provided, this shall not apply to the spouse of the employee insured and children under 19 years of age (including the spouse's children).»Reference only and neither official nor legally effective, in the publisher's own words.
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The state-funded research institute that produces and hosts the English translations of Korean statutes, at elaw.klri.re.kr under the title Statutes of the Republic of Korea. Its own statistics page counts 3,070 current translations - 1,593 statutes, 1,389 enforcement decrees, 3 enforcement rules and 83 others - against 21,044 former ones. Two addresses matter: /eng_service/lawView.do?hseq=<N>&lang=ENG is the frame, which carries the disclaimer and nothing else, and /eng_service/lawViewContent.do?hseq=<N>&lang=ENG is the text. The hseq identifies a particular translated version of a particular statute, so it behaves like a pinned address. Its own search is broken for an ordinary client: /eng_service/lawTotalSearch.do, /eng_service/lawAllSearch.do and /eng_service/lawTotalSearchList.do?type=abc all answer HTTP 500 with a Java NullPointerException. **The route that works is a POST to /eng_service/lawNameList.do with page=1, searchType1=korean and searchValue=<the Korean statute name>**, which returns the Korean and English titles with their hseq. A session cookie from /eng_service/main.do is required for anything on the site.
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Cannot be cited for: **Its translations are not law and it says so on every statute page**: "* Translations provided here are for reference only, and are neither official nor legally effective. * The links provided by an automatic program for the convenience of users may have some errors." It cannot be cited as the text of a Korean statute; the Korean at law.go.kr is. Four divergences were found in a single country's reading and all four change the rule: the English of 소득세법 제1조의2(1)1 attaches 183 days to both the domicile and the residence limb where the Korean attaches it only to the second; the English of 소득세법 시행령 제4조(3)1 says "exceeds 183 days" where the Korean says 183일 이상, 183 or more; the English of 출입국관리법 제18조(1) says a status entitling the holder to "job-seeking activities" where the Korean says 취업활동, employment activity, job-seeking being a different status in the same table; and the English of 재외동포법 제5조(2) makes the military-service bar lapse automatically from 1 January of the year the man turns 41, where the Korean makes it a discretion the Minister of Justice may exercise from that date. **It also lags.** Each translation states the Act it renders: the Immigration Act is translated at Act No. 20677 of 21 January 2025 while the Korean in force on 2 October 2026 is Act No. 21857, and the Enforcement Decree of the Immigration Act is at Presidential Decree No. 35540 of 27 May 2025 against No. 36728 in force. **It does not carry the attached tables** - every Appendix is referred to and none is reproduced - so the status-of-residence lists exist only in Korean. **No translation exists at all for 출입국관리법 시행규칙**, the Enforcement Rules, which carry the stay-period table and the marriage-visa criteria. **Its pages are English with Korean furniture**: the string 법령보기 화면 is printed as a table caption before every article, hundreds of times per document, so a reading from this publisher is a Latin text carrying a non-Latin script in place and `audit:readings` flags every quotation taken near one.
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«⑧ 국내체류 외국인등(제9항 단서의 적용을 받는 사람에 한정한다)에 해당하는 지역가입자의 보험료는 제78조 제1항 본문에도 불구하고 그 직전 월 25일까지 납부하여야 한다.»Our translation - not official
(8) Notwithstanding the main text of article 78(1), the contribution of a self-employed insured person who is a foreigner or other person staying in Korea - limited to a person to whom the proviso to paragraph (9) applies - shall be paid by the 25th of the preceding month.
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The Korean state's legal information centre, run by the Ministry of Government Legislation. It publishes the consolidated current text of every Act, Presidential Decree and Ministerial Decree, each pinned to the date from which that version is in force, and prints the version line at the head of the document - 출입국관리법 [시행 2026. 10. 2.] [법률 제21857호, 2026. 8. 4., 타법개정] - which gives both the commencement date and the Act number that made the version. Three address shapes matter and only the third serves text. https://www.law.go.kr/법령/<name> is a 1.2 KB iframe shell; /LSW/lsInfoP.do?lsiSeq=<N>&chrClsCd=010202&urlMode=lsInfoP&efYd=<YYYYMMDD>&ancYnChk=0 is a second shell with the chrome but no articles; THE BODY IS AT /LSW/lsInfoR.do?lsiSeq=<N>&chrClsCd=010202&efYd=<YYYYMMDD>&ancYnChk=0, which answers an ordinary request and was read for this corpus with `pnpm sources:fetch --direct`. The lsiSeq is version-specific, so an address taken this way is pinned to the consolidation it was read from, which is why every citation of it carries a cut-off. Attached tables (별표) are not in the body: /LSW/lsBylContentsInfoR.do?bylSeq=<B>&lsiSeq=<N> returns hanFlSeq and pdfFlSeq, and https://www.law.go.kr/LSW/flDownload.do?flSeq=<pdfFlSeq> is the table as a PDF with a text layer. The site also carries the government's English translations at /LSW/eng/engLsInfoR.do?lsiSeq=<N>, keyed to the English version's own lsiSeq rather than the Korean one.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **It consolidates; the Official Gazette (관보) promulgates.** What this site serves is the state's working consolidated text, and where it differs from the gazette the gazette is the instrument. The site says as much about its own comparison tool: 국가법령정보센터에서 제공하는 신구법 비교는 시스템으로 자동 생성한 것으로 참고용으로만 이용하시기 바라며, 정확한 개정내용의 확인은 제·개정이유(제·개정문) 또는 관보를 확인해 주세요. **Its English translations carry no legal effect and say so**, on the page: "ㅇ This English translation of the legislation has been provided by the relevant government ministry solely for the purpose of facilitating understanding of Korean laws. It does not have any legal authority or official effect and may not reflect the most recent amendments." It cannot be cited for the English. **It is not a substitute for the ministerial notices (고시) that carry most of the numbers.** Korean immigration, health insurance, driving and marriage-visa law delegate thresholds to notices of a Minister or a Commissioner, and those are published elsewhere; a reading of law.go.kr establishes the rule and not the figure. **The body address is undocumented and could move.** If /LSW/lsInfoR.do stops answering, re-derive it from the iframe src inside https://www.law.go.kr/법령/<name>.
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«제78조( 보험료의 납부기한 ) ① 제77조 제1항 및 제2항 에 따라 보험료 납부의무가 있는 자는 가입자에 대한 그 달의 보험료를 그 다음 달 10일까지 납부하여야 한다.»Our translation - not official
Article 78 (Deadline for paying contributions) (1) A person liable to pay a contribution under article 77(1) and (2) shall pay the contribution for an insured person for a given month by the 10th of the following month.
This is the rule article 109(8) displaces for a foreign self-employed insured person. The spacing inside the article heading is the publisher's.
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The Korean state's legal information centre, run by the Ministry of Government Legislation. It publishes the consolidated current text of every Act, Presidential Decree and Ministerial Decree, each pinned to the date from which that version is in force, and prints the version line at the head of the document - 출입국관리법 [시행 2026. 10. 2.] [법률 제21857호, 2026. 8. 4., 타법개정] - which gives both the commencement date and the Act number that made the version. Three address shapes matter and only the third serves text. https://www.law.go.kr/법령/<name> is a 1.2 KB iframe shell; /LSW/lsInfoP.do?lsiSeq=<N>&chrClsCd=010202&urlMode=lsInfoP&efYd=<YYYYMMDD>&ancYnChk=0 is a second shell with the chrome but no articles; THE BODY IS AT /LSW/lsInfoR.do?lsiSeq=<N>&chrClsCd=010202&efYd=<YYYYMMDD>&ancYnChk=0, which answers an ordinary request and was read for this corpus with `pnpm sources:fetch --direct`. The lsiSeq is version-specific, so an address taken this way is pinned to the consolidation it was read from, which is why every citation of it carries a cut-off. Attached tables (별표) are not in the body: /LSW/lsBylContentsInfoR.do?bylSeq=<B>&lsiSeq=<N> returns hanFlSeq and pdfFlSeq, and https://www.law.go.kr/LSW/flDownload.do?flSeq=<pdfFlSeq> is the table as a PDF with a text layer. The site also carries the government's English translations at /LSW/eng/engLsInfoR.do?lsiSeq=<N>, keyed to the English version's own lsiSeq rather than the Korean one.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **It consolidates; the Official Gazette (관보) promulgates.** What this site serves is the state's working consolidated text, and where it differs from the gazette the gazette is the instrument. The site says as much about its own comparison tool: 국가법령정보센터에서 제공하는 신구법 비교는 시스템으로 자동 생성한 것으로 참고용으로만 이용하시기 바라며, 정확한 개정내용의 확인은 제·개정이유(제·개정문) 또는 관보를 확인해 주세요. **Its English translations carry no legal effect and say so**, on the page: "ㅇ This English translation of the legislation has been provided by the relevant government ministry solely for the purpose of facilitating understanding of Korean laws. It does not have any legal authority or official effect and may not reflect the most recent amendments." It cannot be cited for the English. **It is not a substitute for the ministerial notices (고시) that carry most of the numbers.** Korean immigration, health insurance, driving and marriage-visa law delegate thresholds to notices of a Minister or a Commissioner, and those are published elsewhere; a reading of law.go.kr establishes the rule and not the figure. **The body address is undocumented and could move.** If /LSW/lsInfoR.do stops answering, re-derive it from the iframe src inside https://www.law.go.kr/법령/<name>.
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«⑩ 공단은 지역가입자인 국내체류 외국인등(제9항 단서의 적용을 받는 사람에 한정한다)이 보험료를 대통령령 으로 정하는 기간 이상 체납한 경우에는 제53조 제3항 에도 불구하고 체납일부터 체납한 보험료를 완납할 때까지 보험급여를 하지 아니한다. 이 경우 제53조 제3항 각 호 외의 부분 단서 및 같은 조 제5항 ㆍ제6항은 적용하지 아니한다. <신설 2019. 1. 15., 2024. 10. 22.> ⑪ 제10항에도 불구하고 체류자격 및 체류기간 등 국내체류 외국인등의 특성을 고려하여 특별히 규정하여야 할 사항은 대통령령 으로 다르게 정할 수 있다. <신설 2024. 10. 22.> [2024. 10. 22. 법률 제20505호에 의하여 2023. 9. 26. 헌법재판소에서 헌법불합치 결정된 이 조 제10항을 개정함.]»The bracketed sentence at the end is the publisher's own note recording why the paragraph was amended: the Constitutional Court declared the previous paragraph 10 incompatible with the Constitution on 26 September 2023. The decision itself was not read.
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The Korean state's legal information centre, run by the Ministry of Government Legislation. It publishes the consolidated current text of every Act, Presidential Decree and Ministerial Decree, each pinned to the date from which that version is in force, and prints the version line at the head of the document - 출입국관리법 [시행 2026. 10. 2.] [법률 제21857호, 2026. 8. 4., 타법개정] - which gives both the commencement date and the Act number that made the version. Three address shapes matter and only the third serves text. https://www.law.go.kr/법령/<name> is a 1.2 KB iframe shell; /LSW/lsInfoP.do?lsiSeq=<N>&chrClsCd=010202&urlMode=lsInfoP&efYd=<YYYYMMDD>&ancYnChk=0 is a second shell with the chrome but no articles; THE BODY IS AT /LSW/lsInfoR.do?lsiSeq=<N>&chrClsCd=010202&efYd=<YYYYMMDD>&ancYnChk=0, which answers an ordinary request and was read for this corpus with `pnpm sources:fetch --direct`. The lsiSeq is version-specific, so an address taken this way is pinned to the consolidation it was read from, which is why every citation of it carries a cut-off. Attached tables (별표) are not in the body: /LSW/lsBylContentsInfoR.do?bylSeq=<B>&lsiSeq=<N> returns hanFlSeq and pdfFlSeq, and https://www.law.go.kr/LSW/flDownload.do?flSeq=<pdfFlSeq> is the table as a PDF with a text layer. The site also carries the government's English translations at /LSW/eng/engLsInfoR.do?lsiSeq=<N>, keyed to the English version's own lsiSeq rather than the Korean one.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **It consolidates; the Official Gazette (관보) promulgates.** What this site serves is the state's working consolidated text, and where it differs from the gazette the gazette is the instrument. The site says as much about its own comparison tool: 국가법령정보센터에서 제공하는 신구법 비교는 시스템으로 자동 생성한 것으로 참고용으로만 이용하시기 바라며, 정확한 개정내용의 확인은 제·개정이유(제·개정문) 또는 관보를 확인해 주세요. **Its English translations carry no legal effect and say so**, on the page: "ㅇ This English translation of the legislation has been provided by the relevant government ministry solely for the purpose of facilitating understanding of Korean laws. It does not have any legal authority or official effect and may not reflect the most recent amendments." It cannot be cited for the English. **It is not a substitute for the ministerial notices (고시) that carry most of the numbers.** Korean immigration, health insurance, driving and marriage-visa law delegate thresholds to notices of a Minister or a Commissioner, and those are published elsewhere; a reading of law.go.kr establishes the rule and not the figure. **The body address is undocumented and could move.** If /LSW/lsInfoR.do stops answering, re-derive it from the iframe src inside https://www.law.go.kr/법령/<name>.
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«3. 방문동거(F-1), 거주(F-2), 동반(F-3), 재외동포(F-4), 영주(F-5),»The line ends there and 결혼이민(F-6) begins the next line of the table, so the quotation stops at the line break. The table has five numbered groups: the D statuses, the E statuses, the F statuses, G-1 restricted to humanitarian-stay permission holders and persons the Service designates, and H-1 and H-2.
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The Korean state's legal information centre, run by the Ministry of Government Legislation. It publishes the consolidated current text of every Act, Presidential Decree and Ministerial Decree, each pinned to the date from which that version is in force, and prints the version line at the head of the document - 출입국관리법 [시행 2026. 10. 2.] [법률 제21857호, 2026. 8. 4., 타법개정] - which gives both the commencement date and the Act number that made the version. Three address shapes matter and only the third serves text. https://www.law.go.kr/법령/<name> is a 1.2 KB iframe shell; /LSW/lsInfoP.do?lsiSeq=<N>&chrClsCd=010202&urlMode=lsInfoP&efYd=<YYYYMMDD>&ancYnChk=0 is a second shell with the chrome but no articles; THE BODY IS AT /LSW/lsInfoR.do?lsiSeq=<N>&chrClsCd=010202&efYd=<YYYYMMDD>&ancYnChk=0, which answers an ordinary request and was read for this corpus with `pnpm sources:fetch --direct`. The lsiSeq is version-specific, so an address taken this way is pinned to the consolidation it was read from, which is why every citation of it carries a cut-off. Attached tables (별표) are not in the body: /LSW/lsBylContentsInfoR.do?bylSeq=<B>&lsiSeq=<N> returns hanFlSeq and pdfFlSeq, and https://www.law.go.kr/LSW/flDownload.do?flSeq=<pdfFlSeq> is the table as a PDF with a text layer. The site also carries the government's English translations at /LSW/eng/engLsInfoR.do?lsiSeq=<N>, keyed to the English version's own lsiSeq rather than the Korean one.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **It consolidates; the Official Gazette (관보) promulgates.** What this site serves is the state's working consolidated text, and where it differs from the gazette the gazette is the instrument. The site says as much about its own comparison tool: 국가법령정보센터에서 제공하는 신구법 비교는 시스템으로 자동 생성한 것으로 참고용으로만 이용하시기 바라며, 정확한 개정내용의 확인은 제·개정이유(제·개정문) 또는 관보를 확인해 주세요. **Its English translations carry no legal effect and say so**, on the page: "ㅇ This English translation of the legislation has been provided by the relevant government ministry solely for the purpose of facilitating understanding of Korean laws. It does not have any legal authority or official effect and may not reflect the most recent amendments." It cannot be cited for the English. **It is not a substitute for the ministerial notices (고시) that carry most of the numbers.** Korean immigration, health insurance, driving and marriage-visa law delegate thresholds to notices of a Minister or a Commissioner, and those are published elsewhere; a reading of law.go.kr establishes the rule and not the figure. **The body address is undocumented and could move.** If /LSW/lsInfoR.do stops answering, re-derive it from the iframe src inside https://www.law.go.kr/법령/<name>.
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Practical notes
No contribution rate or amount is stated here. The Act fixes rates through a separate Presidential Decree and the Service's own schedules, and neither was read.
The Minister's notice designating which study or general training statuses count under article 61-2(1)4 of the Enforcement Rules was not located or read, so which D-2 and D-4 holders skip the six months is not established here.
The Presidential Decree made under article 109(11), which may provide differently for arrears according to status and length of stay, was not read. Until it is, what the post-2024 position actually is for a particular status cannot be stated from this record.
Constitutional Court decision 2019헌마1165 and the other cases behind the 26 September 2023 finding were not read; what is recorded here is the publisher's note printed under article 109.
Nothing published by the National Health Insurance Service was read. Everything here is from the Act, its Enforcement Rules and the attached table, with the Korea Legislation Research Institute's English translation of the Act shown beside the Korean.
- consolidates국민건강보험법 [시행 2026. 10. 8.]
국가법령정보센터 (Korean Law Information Center), 법제처 · consolidated to 2026-10-08
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The Korean state's legal information centre, run by the Ministry of Government Legislation. It publishes the consolidated current text of every Act, Presidential Decree and Ministerial Decree, each pinned to the date from which that version is in force, and prints the version line at the head of the document - 출입국관리법 [시행 2026. 10. 2.] [법률 제21857호, 2026. 8. 4., 타법개정] - which gives both the commencement date and the Act number that made the version. Three address shapes matter and only the third serves text. https://www.law.go.kr/법령/<name> is a 1.2 KB iframe shell; /LSW/lsInfoP.do?lsiSeq=<N>&chrClsCd=010202&urlMode=lsInfoP&efYd=<YYYYMMDD>&ancYnChk=0 is a second shell with the chrome but no articles; THE BODY IS AT /LSW/lsInfoR.do?lsiSeq=<N>&chrClsCd=010202&efYd=<YYYYMMDD>&ancYnChk=0, which answers an ordinary request and was read for this corpus with `pnpm sources:fetch --direct`. The lsiSeq is version-specific, so an address taken this way is pinned to the consolidation it was read from, which is why every citation of it carries a cut-off. Attached tables (별표) are not in the body: /LSW/lsBylContentsInfoR.do?bylSeq=<B>&lsiSeq=<N> returns hanFlSeq and pdfFlSeq, and https://www.law.go.kr/LSW/flDownload.do?flSeq=<pdfFlSeq> is the table as a PDF with a text layer. The site also carries the government's English translations at /LSW/eng/engLsInfoR.do?lsiSeq=<N>, keyed to the English version's own lsiSeq rather than the Korean one.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **It consolidates; the Official Gazette (관보) promulgates.** What this site serves is the state's working consolidated text, and where it differs from the gazette the gazette is the instrument. The site says as much about its own comparison tool: 국가법령정보센터에서 제공하는 신구법 비교는 시스템으로 자동 생성한 것으로 참고용으로만 이용하시기 바라며, 정확한 개정내용의 확인은 제·개정이유(제·개정문) 또는 관보를 확인해 주세요. **Its English translations carry no legal effect and say so**, on the page: "ㅇ This English translation of the legislation has been provided by the relevant government ministry solely for the purpose of facilitating understanding of Korean laws. It does not have any legal authority or official effect and may not reflect the most recent amendments." It cannot be cited for the English. **It is not a substitute for the ministerial notices (고시) that carry most of the numbers.** Korean immigration, health insurance, driving and marriage-visa law delegate thresholds to notices of a Minister or a Commissioner, and those are published elsewhere; a reading of law.go.kr establishes the rule and not the figure. **The body address is undocumented and could move.** If /LSW/lsInfoR.do stops answering, re-derive it from the iframe src inside https://www.law.go.kr/법령/<name>.
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- consolidates국민건강보험법 시행규칙 [시행 2026. 9. 28.]
국가법령정보센터 (Korean Law Information Center), 법제처 · consolidated to 2026-09-28
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The Korean state's legal information centre, run by the Ministry of Government Legislation. It publishes the consolidated current text of every Act, Presidential Decree and Ministerial Decree, each pinned to the date from which that version is in force, and prints the version line at the head of the document - 출입국관리법 [시행 2026. 10. 2.] [법률 제21857호, 2026. 8. 4., 타법개정] - which gives both the commencement date and the Act number that made the version. Three address shapes matter and only the third serves text. https://www.law.go.kr/법령/<name> is a 1.2 KB iframe shell; /LSW/lsInfoP.do?lsiSeq=<N>&chrClsCd=010202&urlMode=lsInfoP&efYd=<YYYYMMDD>&ancYnChk=0 is a second shell with the chrome but no articles; THE BODY IS AT /LSW/lsInfoR.do?lsiSeq=<N>&chrClsCd=010202&efYd=<YYYYMMDD>&ancYnChk=0, which answers an ordinary request and was read for this corpus with `pnpm sources:fetch --direct`. The lsiSeq is version-specific, so an address taken this way is pinned to the consolidation it was read from, which is why every citation of it carries a cut-off. Attached tables (별표) are not in the body: /LSW/lsBylContentsInfoR.do?bylSeq=<B>&lsiSeq=<N> returns hanFlSeq and pdfFlSeq, and https://www.law.go.kr/LSW/flDownload.do?flSeq=<pdfFlSeq> is the table as a PDF with a text layer. The site also carries the government's English translations at /LSW/eng/engLsInfoR.do?lsiSeq=<N>, keyed to the English version's own lsiSeq rather than the Korean one.
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Cannot be cited for: **It consolidates; the Official Gazette (관보) promulgates.** What this site serves is the state's working consolidated text, and where it differs from the gazette the gazette is the instrument. The site says as much about its own comparison tool: 국가법령정보센터에서 제공하는 신구법 비교는 시스템으로 자동 생성한 것으로 참고용으로만 이용하시기 바라며, 정확한 개정내용의 확인은 제·개정이유(제·개정문) 또는 관보를 확인해 주세요. **Its English translations carry no legal effect and say so**, on the page: "ㅇ This English translation of the legislation has been provided by the relevant government ministry solely for the purpose of facilitating understanding of Korean laws. It does not have any legal authority or official effect and may not reflect the most recent amendments." It cannot be cited for the English. **It is not a substitute for the ministerial notices (고시) that carry most of the numbers.** Korean immigration, health insurance, driving and marriage-visa law delegate thresholds to notices of a Minister or a Commissioner, and those are published elsewhere; a reading of law.go.kr establishes the rule and not the figure. **The body address is undocumented and could move.** If /LSW/lsInfoR.do stops answering, re-derive it from the iframe src inside https://www.law.go.kr/법령/<name>.
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- reportsNATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE ACT - Statutes of the Republic of Korea
Korea Legislation Research Institute
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The state-funded research institute that produces and hosts the English translations of Korean statutes, at elaw.klri.re.kr under the title Statutes of the Republic of Korea. Its own statistics page counts 3,070 current translations - 1,593 statutes, 1,389 enforcement decrees, 3 enforcement rules and 83 others - against 21,044 former ones. Two addresses matter: /eng_service/lawView.do?hseq=<N>&lang=ENG is the frame, which carries the disclaimer and nothing else, and /eng_service/lawViewContent.do?hseq=<N>&lang=ENG is the text. The hseq identifies a particular translated version of a particular statute, so it behaves like a pinned address. Its own search is broken for an ordinary client: /eng_service/lawTotalSearch.do, /eng_service/lawAllSearch.do and /eng_service/lawTotalSearchList.do?type=abc all answer HTTP 500 with a Java NullPointerException. **The route that works is a POST to /eng_service/lawNameList.do with page=1, searchType1=korean and searchValue=<the Korean statute name>**, which returns the Korean and English titles with their hseq. A session cookie from /eng_service/main.do is required for anything on the site.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: **Its translations are not law and it says so on every statute page**: "* Translations provided here are for reference only, and are neither official nor legally effective. * The links provided by an automatic program for the convenience of users may have some errors." It cannot be cited as the text of a Korean statute; the Korean at law.go.kr is. Four divergences were found in a single country's reading and all four change the rule: the English of 소득세법 제1조의2(1)1 attaches 183 days to both the domicile and the residence limb where the Korean attaches it only to the second; the English of 소득세법 시행령 제4조(3)1 says "exceeds 183 days" where the Korean says 183일 이상, 183 or more; the English of 출입국관리법 제18조(1) says a status entitling the holder to "job-seeking activities" where the Korean says 취업활동, employment activity, job-seeking being a different status in the same table; and the English of 재외동포법 제5조(2) makes the military-service bar lapse automatically from 1 January of the year the man turns 41, where the Korean makes it a discretion the Minister of Justice may exercise from that date. **It also lags.** Each translation states the Act it renders: the Immigration Act is translated at Act No. 20677 of 21 January 2025 while the Korean in force on 2 October 2026 is Act No. 21857, and the Enforcement Decree of the Immigration Act is at Presidential Decree No. 35540 of 27 May 2025 against No. 36728 in force. **It does not carry the attached tables** - every Appendix is referred to and none is reproduced - so the status-of-residence lists exist only in Korean. **No translation exists at all for 출입국관리법 시행규칙**, the Enforcement Rules, which carry the stay-period table and the marriage-visa criteria. **Its pages are English with Korean furniture**: the string 법령보기 화면 is printed as a table caption before every article, hundreds of times per document, so a reading from this publisher is a Latin text carrying a non-Latin script in place and `audit:readings` flags every quotation taken near one.
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- consolidates국민건강보험법 시행규칙 [별표 9] 체류자격(제61조의2제2항 관련)
국가법령정보센터 (Korean Law Information Center), 법제처
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The Korean state's legal information centre, run by the Ministry of Government Legislation. It publishes the consolidated current text of every Act, Presidential Decree and Ministerial Decree, each pinned to the date from which that version is in force, and prints the version line at the head of the document - 출입국관리법 [시행 2026. 10. 2.] [법률 제21857호, 2026. 8. 4., 타법개정] - which gives both the commencement date and the Act number that made the version. Three address shapes matter and only the third serves text. https://www.law.go.kr/법령/<name> is a 1.2 KB iframe shell; /LSW/lsInfoP.do?lsiSeq=<N>&chrClsCd=010202&urlMode=lsInfoP&efYd=<YYYYMMDD>&ancYnChk=0 is a second shell with the chrome but no articles; THE BODY IS AT /LSW/lsInfoR.do?lsiSeq=<N>&chrClsCd=010202&efYd=<YYYYMMDD>&ancYnChk=0, which answers an ordinary request and was read for this corpus with `pnpm sources:fetch --direct`. The lsiSeq is version-specific, so an address taken this way is pinned to the consolidation it was read from, which is why every citation of it carries a cut-off. Attached tables (별표) are not in the body: /LSW/lsBylContentsInfoR.do?bylSeq=<B>&lsiSeq=<N> returns hanFlSeq and pdfFlSeq, and https://www.law.go.kr/LSW/flDownload.do?flSeq=<pdfFlSeq> is the table as a PDF with a text layer. The site also carries the government's English translations at /LSW/eng/engLsInfoR.do?lsiSeq=<N>, keyed to the English version's own lsiSeq rather than the Korean one.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **It consolidates; the Official Gazette (관보) promulgates.** What this site serves is the state's working consolidated text, and where it differs from the gazette the gazette is the instrument. The site says as much about its own comparison tool: 국가법령정보센터에서 제공하는 신구법 비교는 시스템으로 자동 생성한 것으로 참고용으로만 이용하시기 바라며, 정확한 개정내용의 확인은 제·개정이유(제·개정문) 또는 관보를 확인해 주세요. **Its English translations carry no legal effect and say so**, on the page: "ㅇ This English translation of the legislation has been provided by the relevant government ministry solely for the purpose of facilitating understanding of Korean laws. It does not have any legal authority or official effect and may not reflect the most recent amendments." It cannot be cited for the English. **It is not a substitute for the ministerial notices (고시) that carry most of the numbers.** Korean immigration, health insurance, driving and marriage-visa law delegate thresholds to notices of a Minister or a Commissioner, and those are published elsewhere; a reading of law.go.kr establishes the rule and not the figure. **The body address is undocumented and could move.** If /LSW/lsInfoR.do stops answering, re-derive it from the iframe src inside https://www.law.go.kr/법령/<name>.
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