Can you bring a drone to South Korea?

• Drones

  depends on specifics

  Drones under 250g are exempt from registration. Drones of 250g or heavier must be registered through the Drone One-Stop portal, a Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport administrative system that lists a roughly 7-business-day processing time for aircraft registration.

  The Drone One-Stop portal itself was reachable and confirmed real in this pass (Korean government domains have historically been unreachable from this environment, so this is a genuine access breakthrough), but its registration process requires Korean-resident identity verification with no stated tourist exemption or workaround — in practice this blocks visitors from registering anything 250g or heavier. The specific 250g threshold comes from secondary sources, not the portal's own text.

  Also covers: drone, uav, quadcopter, unmanned aircraft, rpas

  Checked 2026-09-16 — Source: Drone One-Stop (드론원스톱 민원서비스) — Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport drone administrative portal

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