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If you want to clarify all this confusion check www.g4f.go.kr it is the immigration website for foreigners. You can in fact extend your visa for travel purposes on this site too without having to go to the immigration office. They law states that you must be out within 24 hours. Don't believe anything else. I know a few people who believed this whole 2 weeks grace period garbage, one of which is teaching in Japan now, because he is banned from teaching here for visa violations. It is crap. There is no 2 week grace period. Your visa is from one year from the day you got off that plane and stepped onto Korean soil, not from the day you got it issued at the embassy. If you look at that paper in you passport it gives you three months to enter Korea before it expires. Then when your passport is stamped there is a date on the stamp and it is one year from that date that your visa expires. I got a letter from Immmigration a few weeks ago, and if you read that letter it tells you that you need to make arrangements for your flight or to extend your visa before that date. It also had that website on it, so I went there, and extended my visa in a matter of an hour and am done.

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To get the extension you need to show your passport, ARC and exit ticket. The extension is free.

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Under the new rules, IF YOU HAVE AN IMMIGRATION VIOLATION, (like an overstay) it can require you to have a consular interview (possibly required in your home country) before you can get a new visa.

An overstay will also result in a fine and notation in your immigration file.

It is always better to get the extension.

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