South Korea Passport Photo Maker

The South Korea Passport photo is 35×45 mm on plain white in print, and 413×531 px where the South Korea form wants an upload. Ministry of Foreign Affairs Republic of Korea puts the head at 71–80% of the height, chin to crown, and the eyes at 60–70% up from the bottom edge.

Plain white background. Coloured photo taken within 6 months of the application date, with a neutral expression. Head 32–36 mm from crown to chin on the 35×45 mm photo. Passport.go.kr names 413×531 px as the recommended size for an online application and accepts 395–431 × 507–550 px. Clear glasses are allowed if the frames do not cover the eyes and the lenses show no reflection; tinted lenses, coloured or circle contact lenses and sunglasses are not. For Ministry of Foreign Affairs Republic of Korea applications.

Korea publishes the most detailed photograph rulebook of any authority in this catalogue, and it is the reason this page no longer reads like the Indian passport page despite the two specifications matching on every number. Passport.go.kr gives 3.5 centimetres wide by 4.5 high with the crown-to-chin length between 3.2 and 3.6 centimetres, and it names 413 by 531 pixels as the recommended digital size, which is the one place in this catalogue where an authority quotes the exact pixel figure this tool exports. From there it goes further than most. Photographs may not be edited, composited or generated with software, and the rule says so including work produced with artificial intelligence. Earrings and studs that catch the light or blur the outline of the face are excluded, and so are wireless earphones. The head must be square to the camera with no forward or backward tilt, hair off the forehead, and the photograph taken within six months of the application date. The background wording is exacting in a way most authorities do not bother with: white, uniform, free of ink marks, and borderless. Head coverings are refused outright unless the garment is one you habitually wear in daily life, and even then the forehead through to the chin has to stay exposed. Pose gets its own clause as well, ruling out a three-quarter or profile angle and ruling out a crop so tight that the picture becomes a close-up of a face rather than a head and shoulders. The current text of these rules dates from October 2022.

The glasses rule is widely misreported and worth getting right. Korea does not ban spectacles; it bans tinted lenses, coloured and circle contact lenses and sunglasses, and it requires that clear lenses show no reflection and that the frames do not cover the eyes. So you may keep ordinary glasses on if they are genuinely clear and genuinely unreflective, and removing them is simply the reliable way to guarantee both. The rule that surprises people more is the editing one, since it explicitly covers software-composited and AI-generated images, and background replacement sits inside that description. Use this page to check framing and to see what a compliant crop looks like, and make the submission decision knowing what passport.go.kr asks for. Very young applicants get one concession: infants up to about 36 months may have the mouth slightly open, where everyone else must have it closed with no teeth showing.

All of that happens in this browser tab: 413×531 JPEG on plain white, nothing uploaded. Figures come from Ministry of Foreign Affairs Republic of Korea — passport.go.kr. If one has gone stale, contact@minipx.com.