South Korea or Mongolia
Two countries side by side across the same rows as the full comparison. A dash means the value is missing: fields are not filled with guesses. about the data
| South Korea | Mongolia | |
|---|---|---|
| Salary in IT | $ 61 452 | — |
| Citizenship | 5 years | 5 years |
| Partner can work | no | — |
| Parents | difficult | — |
| Pets | difficult | no trouble |
| Pet limit | 5 | no limit |
| Quarantine | 10 days | — |
| Residence permit fee | — | — |
| Rent, 2 bedrooms | $ 999 · estimate | $ 710 · estimate |
| Basket | $ 40,9 | $ 28,1 |
| Life expectancy | 83.63 | 72.4 |
| Homicides/100k | 0.49 | 5.64 |
| Natural hazards, 0–10 | 6 | 3.3 |
How the two sets of routes differ
Long-stay routes in this reference: South Korea — 91, Mongolia — 28. Types present in both: work, study, family, investment, talent and repatriation. South Korea adds: startup, job seeking and working holiday.
Fees, thresholds and deadlines
South Korea: fees range from 60 to 90 USD. Routes stating an income threshold: 1; the lowest is 1,500,000,000 KRW a month. Mongolia: fees range from 45,000 to 135,000 MNT. Routes with a published decision deadline: 28; the shortest is 3 days.
Beyond the first permit
Permanent status: South Korea after 5 years; the other country publishes no term. Citizenship: both after 5 years. Neither recognises a second citizenship.
South Korea in brief
South Korea combines a developed technology economy and low violent crime with a formal points system for long-term residence (E-7 → F-2-7 → F-5) and substantial restrictions on dual citizenship and on a spouse working. Parents, your own or a partner's, can only get the temporary renewable F-1-15 visa with no right to work. Natural hazards are moderate — seasonal typhoons and monsoon floods, earthquakes rare; the notable problem is air quality, the worst among OECD countries.
Mongolia in brief
Mongolia is a landlocked country between Russia and China with an extremely uneven distribution of population: almost half the population is concentrated in Ulaanbaatar, while the other major cities (Erdenet, Darkhan) are an order of magnitude smaller. Dual citizenship is not permitted: naturalisation requires at least five years of permanent residence, knowledge of the Mongolian language, and renunciation of prior citizenship. The work-visa system is broken down in detail by sector of the economy (construction, science and IT, mining, finance, agriculture, and others); employing foreigners under the work and investor categories is subject to a separate monthly workplace fee. A sharply continental climate produces winter temperatures below -17°C and summer temperatures above +20°C on a monthly average. In winter, Ulaanbaatar ranks among the cities with the dirtiest air in the world: the average annual PM2.5 level stands at 42.7 µg/m³ — almost nine times the WHO guideline — because of coal heating in the ger districts.
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