Do you need an onward ticket for South Korea?
No published rule found
Nothing retrievable on the K-ETA system mentions a return or onward ticket, and the statute could not be verified. We will not assert either way.
No public rule was found. The absence of a published rule is not a guarantee of entry, and we will not guess in either direction.
Last verified 5 August 2026 · Asia
What the rule actually says
No page retrieved from the K-ETA system mentions a return or onward ticket, and the K-ETA application does not collect flight data at all.
The text of Immigration Act Article 12 could not be verified, so the statutory position is unknown to us.
This is the weakest cell in the dataset. Treating it as "not required" would be a guess dressed as a finding.
Absence of a published rule is not a guarantee of entry.
Who checks
Nothing verifiable, in either direction.
A note on airline enforcement, because almost every page on this subject states it as fact: airlines screen these rules through IATA Timatic, a paid business product with no public interface. Nobody outside the industry can check what it says for a given route on a given day. New Zealand is the only authority in this set whose own published text names the check-in desk.
Sources
- South Korea travel advice: entry requirements (UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office — another government's summary, used because the destination's own page could not be retrieved)
Airports in South Korea
Elsewhere in Asia
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