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대한민국

Among the best school systems anywhere, and the most expensive schools in Asia.

5/5
재료 확인
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학비
연 ~$22–33k
Korean national schools are free, but they teach in Korean and are not a realistic route for a child arriving without the language.
생활비
월 ~$2,900
Family of three, all in, excluding fees. Compared at country level, so capital cities and large metros run higher. The price level behind it prices the basket residents buy, and a foreign renter cannot reach the cheap end of local housing — poorer countries may still sit too low here.
교육
Very strong
보호자 비자
No parent route; one parent must qualify alone
The same structure as Germany, the Netherlands, Czechia, Japan, Estonia and Slovenia, and scored the same.
치안
Mid
Mid-table globally; the index is weighed down by the militarisation the peninsula requires rather than by crime

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학비연 ~$22–33k

Individual published figures for Seoul: roughly KRW 30–45 million a year at middle and high school across the fully international schools, with the largest of them reported at KRW 38–42 million for high school. Tier 3 because the schools publish fee tables to applicants rather than openly.

Korean national schools are free, but they teach in Korean and are not a realistic route for a child arriving without the language.

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생활비월 ~$2,900

Pathoff judgement directed by evidence, not computed from it: the country’s position comes from the World Bank household consumption price level for 2024 (0.640 of the United States, CC BY 4.0 — the ICP benchmark carried forward annually by the World Bank’s own method); the US reference budget is ours. See the Pathoff method, section 12.

Family of three, all in, excluding fees. Compared at country level, so capital cities and large metros run higher. The price level behind it prices the basket residents buy, and a foreign renter cannot reach the cheap end of local housing — poorer countries may still sit too low here.

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교육Very strong

Pathoff judgement, no rubric yet: placed against the other countries here from general knowledge of the international-school sector. Under review — see the Pathoff method, section 9-3.

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보호자 비자No parent route; one parent must qualify alone

Pathoff outcome rubric (the Pathoff method, section 10-1), early outcome band "A guardian must be arranged": Korea’s dependent status runs from a resident to their spouse and children, not from a child to a parent. There is no status a parent can hold on the basis of a child’s schooling.

The same structure as Germany, the Netherlands, Czechia, Japan, Estonia and Slovenia, and scored the same.

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규정
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마지막 확인
2026-09
치안Mid

Global Peace Index 2026: rank 57 of 163, score 1.839. Converted by the Pathoff GPI formula (GPI in lib/scoring.ts)

Mid-table globally; the index is weighed down by the militarisation the peninsula requires rather than by crime

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Korean schooling is genuinely excellent and Seoul’s international schools are among the strongest in Asia — and among the priciest anywhere, at thirty to forty-five million won a year at secondary level. The immigration position is the ordinary East Asian one: there is no parental status, so a parent needs a work or business visa of their own.

절차는 이렇습니다

1

A parent secures a status of residence

Employment, business or a spouse’s status. The child follows as a dependant.

⏱ 1–3 months
2

Check the school’s eligibility rules

Some international schools restrict admission by nationality or time spent abroad.

소요 기간 미확인
3

Register the alien card, then health insurance

Enrolment in the national scheme follows the residence card.

⏱ 2–4 weeks

가족들이 모이는 곳

Seongbuk / Yongsan, Seoul
The established international schools and the diplomatic quarter
Songdo, Incheon
A purpose-built international district with newer schools
Jeju Global Education City
Branch campuses of British and American schools, on an island

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사진: 대한민국 · Matt Kieffer from London, United Kingdom, 라이선스 CC BY-SA 2.0, 출처 Wikimedia Commons.