your documents
Korea is unusually strict about the form your Nepali documents arrive in. Almost everything issued in Nepali needs a notarised English translation, and the embassy verifies academic records directly.
The set below is what a Nepali applicant to South Korea is normally asked for. Your institution or your circumstances can add to it — treat this as the floor, and the official checklist as the ceiling.
Standard Admission Certificate
From an accredited Korean university, original and copy.
Passport
Valid, submitted with the application at the visa centre.
Academic transcripts & certificates
Verified through the channel the embassy specifies — not simply photocopied.
TOPIK or English test result
TOPIK for Korean-medium programmes; IELTS or equivalent for English-medium.
Financial evidence
Bank balance and sponsor documents to the level the embassy sets.
Family & relationship documents
Citizenship, relationship and income records for your sponsor.
Notarised English translations
For every Nepali-language document in the file.
Application form & photographs
To the KVAC specification.
Applications go through the Korea Visa Application Centre in Pulchowk, Lalitpur rather than at the embassy counter, except for specific exempt categories. The centre takes the file; the embassy decides it.
Korea Visa Application Centre (KVAC)
List every Nepali-language document you hold
Citizenship, relationship, property, income, ward certificates. Each one needs a notarised English translation.
Get translations notarised, not just typed
A translation without a notary's attestation is not what the embassy is asking for.
Follow the academic verification route
The embassy verifies academic records rather than accepting copies at face value. Ask the centre which channel applies to your qualification.
Allow for a long processing window
Korean student visa processing from Nepal is measured in weeks, not days. Apply as early as your admission allows.
Where applications are submitted: the Korea Visa Application Centre, Pulchowk
Nepali-language documents: each needs a notarised English translation
Processing time: commonly around three weeks or more
Because Nepal cannot issue apostilles, Korean requirements written around apostilled documents are satisfied through the MoFA attestation chain instead. Ask the centre what form they want before you pay for a chain of stamps.
Where this page shows a blank rather than a number, it is because we could not verify it against a source we would stand behind. A shown gap is more useful than a confident guess.
Most of your file is issued in Nepal and is identical whichever destination you choose. Each of these has its own guide with the office address, the fee and the steps.
The NOC is a Nepal-side requirement, not South Korea's — but without it a Nepali bank will not send your tuition, so it blocks everything downstream regardless of where you are going.