If You Forget Your Passport, 53,000 Won at the Airport

Emergency Passport Issuance Fee
Significantly Increased from 15,000 Won

The fee for issuing an emergency passport at the airport due to not bringing a passport or the passport being expired will increase from the current 15,000 KRW to 53,000 KRW starting next month. This amount includes an international exchange contribution fee of 5,000 KRW.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the 15th, the amendment to the Passport Act Enforcement Decree containing this provision recently passed the review by the Ministry of Government Legislation and will take effect next month.

However, if documents proving urgent circumstances are submitted either before or after the issuance, the fee will be reduced to 20,000 KRW.

A government official explained, "This measure is in response to the increase in indiscriminate applications due to the previously low emergency passport issuance fee."

The number of emergency passports issued by the Passport Service Center at Incheon International Airport increased from 10,439 cases in 2016 to 14,560 cases in 2017, and 18,551 cases in 2018.

As of 2018, the reasons for emergency passport applications were mostly simple negligence, with "insufficient validity period" (58%) and "loss" (33%) accounting for 91% of cases.

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