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Register Your Stay in Korea
As an American citizen visiting, working, studying, or residing in Korea, you are advised to register your stay in Korea with the Department of State .

emergency contact
If you are an American citizen with an after hours emergency, call us at 82-2-397-4114. If you have access to DSN, please call 721-4114.

For Non-Emergency Issues Please see our General Contact Page.

sign up for our free email list
The Embassy will email you travel warnings, travel alerts, and warden messages on safety and security issues in South Korea (this service is also known as the "warden system"), as well as our monthly newsletter. Just type your email address into the box below and click "Subscribe" (or "Unsubscribe" if you wish to remove your email address from our list). Our list of subscriber email addresses is managed by Databack Systems LLC, a company based in the United State. Databack does not sell, rent, or otherwise share your email address. The U.S. Government cannot guarantee the privacy of any email address provided to the contracted email list manager.


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The Embassy will send a text message to your cell phone notifying you whenever a travel warning, travel alert, or warden message regarding safety and security matters in South Korea has been posted on our website (and distributed by email using our warden system -- see the box above to sign up for the email). To subscribe to this free service, just type your cell phone number in the box below and click "Subscribe" (or "Unsubscribe" if you wish to remove your cell phone number from our list).


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announcements

 blue square American Citizen Services (ACS) February 2010 Newsletter

 blue square Victims of Crime in South Korea

 blue square July Worldwide Caution

 blue square Nuclear Test in North Korea

 blue square H1N1 Influenza, 30 April 2009

 blue square Information on Major Hospitals with English-Speaking Staff

 blue square Visa-Free Travel to Korea 

 blue square Emergency Evacuation Plan

 blue square Embassy cannot authenticate diplomas or  other documents from schools in U.S.

 blue square Country Specific Information on the Republic  of Korea. Read this BEFORE traveling to South  Korea. Information about medical insurance,  visas, Korean military service, and more.

 blue square American Citizen Services hours, holidays,  and directions.
 
 blue square The U.S. Government's official internet  portal, www.usa.gov, contains information  related to local, state, and federal  goverments.  It is useful for contacting  elected officials, finding government benefits,  renewing a driver's license, checking the  status of an immigration case and much  more.


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For consular related inquiries, please email us at seoulinfo@state.gov.

This is an official U.S. Government source for information. Inclusion of non-U.S. Government links or information does not imply endorsement of contents.

The American Embassy is closed on both U.S. and Korean holidays.

Updated February 1, 2010