Working as a nurse in South Korea
What official sources say about working as a nurse in South Korea: how foreign qualifications are recognised.
Nurse is a regulated profession in South Korea. Foreign qualifications go through: After foreign-school recognition review, an eligible foreign-trained nurse applies for and passes the Korean nurse national examination; the MOHW flow does not add a preliminary exam for the nurse profession.
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- After foreign-school recognition review, an eligible foreign-trained nurse applies for and passes the Korean nurse national examination; the MOHW flow does not add a preliminary exam for the nurse profession.
Regulation and recognition
Nurse is a regulated profession in South Korea.
- Recognition route
- After foreign-school recognition review, an eligible foreign-trained nurse applies for and passes the Korean nurse national examination; the MOHW flow does not add a preliminary exam for the nurse profession.
- Recognition authority
- Kuksiwon receives and conducts individual review of a foreign nursing school for exam eligibility; MOHW approves the review result.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Nurse in South Korea: recognition [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 4279a758a89451fae235c52447993708]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/nurse/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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author = {ImmigrationDB},
title = {Nurse in South Korea: recognition},
publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-10-16},
version = {4279a758a89451fae235c52447993708},
url = {https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/nurse/south-korea/},
note = {Retrieved 2026-10-16. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}Markdown citation
[Nurse in South Korea: recognition](https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/nurse/south-korea/) — ImmigrationDB; ImmigrationDB; version 4279a758a89451fae235c52447993708; retrieved 2026-10-16; built 2026-10-16.This citation identifies the ImmigrationDB compilation/page. Underlying source publishers and datasets retain their own terms; inspect the Sources section and cite those records separately. View the underlying source records.