Animal inspection

• Passengers with animals or animal by-products must mark the appropriate box on the Customs possession declaration form and be inspected by a quarantine officer. When entering with animals or animal by-products, you must submit the quarantine inspection approval form from the origin country.
• All import from countries banned for import into Korea are strictly prohibited, and you will be fined for not reporting possession of such items.
• If you visited a farm while abroad, please avoid any contact with livestock for 5 days after entry.

You will be fined for illegally carrying in animals or animal by-products without inspection.

Required documents and details

Animal products requiring declaration

Plant inspection

• Passengers with live plants, fruit, vegetable, agricultural product, forest product, flower, seedling, oriental medicine, etc. must mark the appropriate box on the Customs possession declaration form and be inspected by a quarantine officer.
• You must submit the quarantine inspection approval form from the origin country for sapling, seedling, root, and any vegetation for replanting.
• All types of vegetation from abroad are the key route for alien parasite transfer, so all plants carried on flight must be reported and are subject to quarantine inspection

You will be fined for illegally carrying in plants without inspection.

All heated or processed vegetation products (kimchi, rice cake, etc.) are not subject to quarantine.

Visit the website of the Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency for the further details of plant inspection.