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Job Fair for International Students in Busan 2025 – Visa to Career, Seizing Your Dream Job in Busan!

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Busan Metropolitan City (Mayor Park Heong-joon) announced that it will hold the “Job Fair for International Students in Busan 2025” tomorrow (19th) from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in Exhibition Hall 2 (Rooms 121–125, 1st Floor) at BEXCO.
○ The event is co-hosted by the City and the Busan Regional Office of SMEs and Startups (Director General Kang Ki-seong), organized by the Busan Global City Foundation (CEO Jeon Yong-woo), and supported by the Busan Immigration Office and universities in the Busan region.
○ The fair, now in its third year, aims to help outstanding international students settle in the region and address workforce shortages in key local industries.
○ A total of 35 companies from the manufacturing, hotel & convention, and trade & logistics sectors will take part—an increase of 14 from last year’s 21 participants—and the organizers hope this will lead to more successful hires.

Of particular note, this year’s job fair will incorporate the “Regional Specialized Visa (F-2-R)” and “Specific Activities Visa (E-7),” enabling international students to pursue employment while establishing long-term residency in the region.
○ The Regional Specialized Visa (F-2-R) is a residence visa issued to qualified international talent, such as graduates of domestic universities, on the condition that they reside or work in designated depopulated areas. In Busan, Seo-gu, Dong-gu, and Yeongdo-gu are eligible areas. International talent who secure employment or residence in those areas can apply to change their visa status upon recommendation by the City to the Ministry of Justice. Of the 150 quota positions allocated to Busan this year, 65 have already been filled, with the remaining 85 being recruited on a rolling basis.
○ The Specific Activities Visa (E-7) is available to professionals and skilled technical personnel.
○ Those hired by participating companies at this year’s fair will be able to meet the requirements for obtaining either the Regional Specialized Visa or the Specific Activities Visa.

Key events include a visa orientation session and lecture by a current employee, job-seeker booths, an auxiliary event zone (makeup services, photo studio for application photos, etc.), and information booths (visa, employment, and daily living information).
○ During the visa session, the Busan Immigration Office will explain the concept and application procedures for employment visas for international students. In the special lecture, Mr. Nguyen Thanh Tan—an international student who studied in Busan and is now working at a local company—will share his success story.
○ At the job-seeker booths, all 35 participating companies will accept resumes and conduct on-site interviews; there will also be a booth providing guidance on use of the online job-registration platform (K-Work).
○ In the auxiliary event zone, students can receive interview makeup services, take application photos, and undergo personal color analysis.

Kim Gui-ok, Director General of the Youth and Industry-Academic Cooperation Bureau of Busan Metropolitan City, stated, “If excellent international students settle in Busan by securing employment here, it will help alleviate local challenges such as population decline and the outflow of young people.” She added, “We hope that international students will grow into key human resources in Busan’s priority industries such as logistics & trade and tourism & MICE, strengthening Busan’s international competitiveness and serving as civilian diplomats representing their own countries.”