Working as a childcare worker in South Korea
What official sources say about working as a childcare worker in South Korea: what the occupation group earns and how foreign qualifications are recognised.
In South Korea, the occupation group "Service and sales workers", which includes childcare workers, earns ≈ 2,052 EUR/month (gross, 2022). Childcare worker is a regulated profession in South Korea. Foreign qualifications go through: The childcare-teacher certificate is issued after review against statutory degree, subject-credit, practicum and class-level criteria.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Service and sales workers"
- ≈ 2,052 EUR/month (gross, 2022)
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- The childcare-teacher certificate is issued after review against statutory degree, subject-credit, practicum and class-level criteria.
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Service and sales workers" in South Korea: ≈ 2,052 EUR/month (gross, 2022), from ILO. An occupation group is wider than one job title: it is the pay of everyone the group holds, not of childcare workers alone.
Regulation and recognition
Childcare worker is a regulated profession in South Korea.
- Recognition route
- The childcare-teacher certificate is issued after review against statutory degree, subject-credit, practicum and class-level criteria.
- Recognition authority
- The Education Minister issues childcare-teacher certificates; the Korea Childcare Promotion Institute administers the delegated qualification review and certificate process.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Childcare worker in South Korea: salary and recognition [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 89c37eb983348dace94dd19b9e3e01d6]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/childcare-worker/south-korea/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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