What is the impact of not entering the country after getting a Korean visa?

Since last year, going abroad all over the world has been affected to a certain extent. Even if you hold a visa, you cannot enter the destination country. Therefore, many applicants will get a visa but do not travel. Will there be any impact on not entering the country after getting a Korean visa?

Generally speaking, applicants have to travel with a permit after applying for a visa to go abroad. If they do not travel after obtaining a visa for their own reasons, they have to re-apply for a visa when they want to go abroad after the visa expires, and the embassy will check the previous visa records and travel records when applying for a visa again. If the embassy finds that they have failed to go abroad on time, it will doubt the applicant's travel situation.

If the applicant fails to explain clearly or cannot dispel the concerns of the visa officer, the embassy will directly refuse the visa to the applicant, so it will have a certain impact on getting a Korean visa but not traveling under normal circumstances.

However, in recent years, if the applicant has previously applied for a visa and is unable to enter South Korea due to the epidemic situation, there will be no impact in this case, because under normal circumstances, the embassy will require the applicant to prepare an explanation letter in advance to explain why the holder has not been able to go abroad.

The inability to go abroad during the epidemic is clear to everyone, and the embassy will not make it difficult for applicants because of this, even if the visa expires, it will allow applicants to apply for a South Korean visa normally, and for South Korea, the embassy has a policy that when the epidemic improves, people who have held short-term visas and have not traveled can apply for visas again free of charge.

Therefore, in the current situation, if you do not enter the country after obtaining a South Korean visa, there will be no impact, as long as you wait for the visa to be re-applied when you can enter the country later.

Of course, some applicants have previously obtained long-term valid visas, such as: 5 years, 10 years, etc., are able to wait for the outbreak to improve with the existing visa to travel again, will not be affected in any way.