Road Traffic Authority Driver's License website: www.safedriving.or.kr (English available)
Acquisition of a Korean driver's license
There are two types (Class 1 and class 2) in Korean Driver's License. Those two types differ depending on what kind of car you will be driving. In order to obtain the license, you need to pass three types of tests; a written test, course-driving test, and a road test. You can take tests in license examination offices and institute.
Procedure for the acquisition of driver's license
『 Road Traffic Authority Driver's License website (www.safedriving.or.kr) → driving test information → procedure for getting a license』 Detail information for the procedure of each step will be obtained. Also through its website, civil application, test application, license information inquiries and application of issue are possible.
Incheon's DMV
Incheon's DMV operates the function experience center and the subject assistance system for foreigners
- Address : 1247, Aam-daero, Namdong-gu, Incheon
- Phone : 1577-1120
Driver's license class program for the multicultural family
Each police station in Incheon operates a driver's license class for multicultural family (married immigrants and children), foreign workers and foreign students and you can call each police station to ask program schedule and detail contents.
- Ganghwa Police station: 032-930-0393 • Gyeyang Police station: 032-363-6238
- Namdong Police station: 032-718-9376 • Nambu Police station: 032-717-9376
- Bupyeong Police station: 032-363-1376 • Samsan Police station: 032-509-0376
- Seobu Police station: 032-453-3376 7 • Yeonsu Police station: 032-453-0376
- Jungbu Police station: 032-760-8376 • Nonhyeon Police station: 032-454-9376
- Wonderful driving website (www.wonderfuldriving.com)
It provides the information to acquire driver' license for a multicultural family.
- Place for an examination and procedure information.
- Lecture related to the subject, the skill, the driving and sample questions provided. (With 10 languages, mobile app lecture is provided)
- Korea, English, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, Mongol, Cambodian, and Russian
The case of switching from foreign driver's license to domestic driver's license
- The switching from foreign driver's license to domestic driver's license is possible roughly in 130 nations that make contract mutual agreement and the license's distinction between truth and false is confirmed through required document which is issues by foreign Korean embassy, through aptitude test (physical examination) and examinations of subject, domestic driver's license will be issued or exchanged. (Exemption from subject examination for countries whose driver's licenses are accepted in Korea)
- International acquired license can be recognized the validity under the full license which remains the available period. Temporary licenses or Practice licenses cannot be exchanged and issued into a domestic license.
Countries whose driver's licenses are recognized in Korea
Korea recognizes the driver's licenses of certain countries and issues the Korean driver's license without requiring applicants to take any tests. The National Police Agency announces a list of these countries every year.
- The driver's license which is issued the country which accepts Korean driver's license: only aptitude test (physical examination) will be done.
- The driver's license which was obtained from the nations not accept Korean driver's license: aptitude test (physical examination) and multiple choice (20 questions) will be done.
- Others: Exchange or issue of foreign driver's license is limited to domestic regular Class 2 license
- 『KoROAD Driver's license service homepage (www.safedriving.or.kr) → Foreign Driver's License & International Driving Permit』 Countries whose driver's licenses are recognized in Korea may be verified here
International driver's license
He who obtains a international driver's license can drive in Korea within the validity period (1 year from the entry date), only vehicle model which is written in the international driver's license can be driven.
Vehicle registration and insurance
Vehicle registration
- New registration
Purchasing Car insurance (liability insurance)
- In the purchase of a car, the liability insurance must be joined and in case of an accident should be prepared for.
- As insurance money is different depending on the ensured contents, so a driver should choose a correct insurance which is fitted for driver's own driving style and be joined.
- Car liability insurance
