South Korea Updates Its Official Q-Code Portal: New Web Address and Interface

South Korea’s official Q-Code portal has moved to a new web address. The website has been integrated into the recently launched South Korea’s travel health alert portal that offers a refreshed interface and more features. Whether you’re planning a trip to South Korea or preparing to leave the country, you can now access travel health alerts for inbound and outbound travel as well as fill out travel health-related forms on the new portal. Here’s a closer look at what’s new and what you need to know before your journey.

Change in subdomain name

Previously, the Q-Code portal was accessible at https://qcode.kdca.go.kr (Note: go.kr is the official domain extension for the South Korean government). After the migration to the new address, the official Q-Code portal is now integrated into South Korea’s Travel Health portal at https://travelhealth.kdca.go.kr, a new subdomain under the official web domain of Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA). Web visitors accessing the old Q-Code portal address will be redirected to the new address for Q-Code registration on the Travel Health portal.

Based on the snapshots captured by the Internet Archive and timestamps found on the Travel Health portal, it is surmised that the Travel Health portal went live in October 2026. While the retired Q-Code portal only focused on travel health alerts for inbound visitors to Korea, the new portal provides travel health alerts for both inbound and outbound travel. This reflects the integration of Q-Code into a centralized, unified travel health alert system administered by KDCA.

Change in Q-Code Online Form Address

On the old Q-Code web portal, accessing the Q-Code registration form was quite straightforward. One would only need to visit the portal homepage at https://qcode.kdca.go.kr and click the Q-Code registration button that’s clearly visible and prominent on the page.

On the new Travel Health portal, accessing Q-Code registration form from the portal home page at https://travelhealth.go.kr involves additional navigation step. Once you open the home page, you need to click the Q-Code logo at the top right. The position of the logo and the lack of multilingual support at site level (which may be temporary as the new portal improves on its features) might present some difficulties for first-time web visitors in navigating the portal.

Once you click the Q-Code logo, you will navigate to the Q-Code registration page. On the page, you can choose between completing Q-Code registration directly on the website or registering Q-Code on Naver, one of the biggest South Korean web portals. Naver account is required when Q-Code registration is conducted on Naver. Given that international travelers may not be familiar with Naver, it is safe to say that majority of international travelers will complete Q-Code registration on the Travel Health portal.

Here we provide the address of the English version of Q-Code registration form on South Korea’s Travel Health portal for quicker access: https://travelhealth.kdca.go.kr/travel/cd/codeInput2.do?lang=en

Q-Code Registration Form in the New Travel Health Portal

The Q-Code registration form consists of three sections that should be completed: 1) entry and stay information, 2) quarantine information, and 3) consent to terms and conditions. We capture the snapshot of each section and briefly explain about the information that needs to be entered in each section.

1. Entry information

In this section, you need to provide the information about how you enter Korea (either by plane or ship), your country of embarkation, and scheduled date of arrival.

If you have a connecting flight to Korea, select the country where you transit instead of the original departure point. As an example, if you fly to Korea from London with a layover in Dubai, you should choose United Arab Emirates as the country of final departure.

When entering the date of scheduled arrival, you can enter a future date that is a week away from the current date. In other words, you can fill out the Q-Code registration form as early as 7 days before your arrival in Korea.

2. Quarantine information

In this section, you need to enter your personal information and declare your health condition information.

The personal information that you need to enter includes full name, date of birth, passport number, and your place of stay in Korea.

The health condition information is self-declared. You need to enter the list of country(-ies) visited in the last 21 days and declare whether you have certain symptoms associated with the diseases that are under quarantine inspection, such as fever, headache, rashes, cough, sore threat, runny nose, difficulty with breathing, nausea, jaundice, mucosal bleeding, or other health-concerning symptoms.

3. Consent to terms and conditions

According to South Korean laws, personal data collection and processing must be consented by the owner. In this section you give the consent by agreeing to have your personal data collected and processed by KDCA for quarantine management purpose.

You need to check all terms and conditions before you can submit the form.

After the form is submitted, you will get a QR code, which is the Q-Code itself. You need to save, screenshot, or print the code. When you arrive in Korea, you need to scan the Q-Code when walking through the health screening gate.

When Q-Code Is Required

Q-Code is not always required when entering Korea. You only need to register Q-Code if your final departure point before heading to Korea is located in a region or country that is included in strict quarantine inspection area list.

For the complete list of countries that are categorized in the strict quarantine inspection area, you can refer to our latest article about Q-Code requirements. We have been maintaining the list since 2023 and kept it updated based on the latest announcements from KDCA.