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Korean child benefit eligibility checker
Find out which child benefits your family qualifies for. Covers monthly allowances, daycare subsidies, pregnancy and birth grants, and Seoul / Gyeonggi / Incheon district programs.
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Childcare arrangement
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Birth order of this child
Birth order matters for one-time grants and the Seoul postpartum subsidy.
How Korean child benefits work for foreign residents
The thing nobody tells you when you start looking up Korean child benefits is that the rules don't really care about your visa. They care whether your child has a Korean 주민등록번호 (resident registration number). When the child does, the family gets the full national stack: 아동수당, 부모급여, 보육료, 양육수당. When the child has only 외국인등록번호, the national programs close off, and you're left relying on the local ones that exist.
That makes the foreign-resident map look strange. A two-foreign-parent family in Seoul can get 50 to 70 percent of daycare paid through Seoul's foreign-child program, while the same family in Busan would get nothing equivalent. Gyeonggi pays a flat 150,000 KRW per month for foreign children in daycare since October 2025. Incheon's headline 100 million won birth incentive is staged over seven years, and foreign eligibility for the 천사지원금 piece of it is unverified, even though Incheon's separate transport subsidy explicitly excludes both-foreign-parent families.
One Korean parent changes everything. Under 다문화가족지원법, families with one Korean spouse (or one naturalized Korean) qualify as 다문화가족, which unlocks the full national benefit set even when the other spouse is foreign. The 국민행복카드 pregnancy voucher (1,000,000 won single, 1,400,000 won multiple) applies under standard NHIS rules. The C-section copayment dropped to zero in January 2025. 아동수당 extended to children under 9 starting in 2026, with the first newly-eligible cohort paid in April 2026.
Two-foreign-parent families have a narrower path but it's not nothing. The 국민행복카드 explicitly accepts mothers on F-2, F-5, or F-6. Mothers on F-4, E-series, or D-series are likely eligible through NHIS but the rule names only the three F-series visas, so confirm with NHIS before relying on it. Seoul's daycare program covers your child regardless of your visa type. Several district 출산장려금 programs accept foreign residents but the verification is patchy, which is why this tool flags "verify" rather than promising amounts.