D-8-4, Korea's startup visa: the OASIS matrix, and the 60-point threshold the operator publishes

Korea's startup visa has a scoring engine behind it. The engine has a name: OASIS, the Overall Assistance for Startup Immigration System.

The Global Startup Immigration Center operates the programme. The Minister of Justice and the Minister of Small and Medium Venture Businesses designated it.

The sourcing rule for this post follows from that sentence. Everything below is the operator's publication.

It runs the system, but its page is not a ministry notice. Verify against HiKorea or the Korea Immigration Service before filing.

The threshold, as printed

The page stacks the visa's conditions in one line. First, a bachelor's or associate's degree, Korea-only, or a Global Start-up Immigration Center letter.

Then 60 points or more, with at least one required item included. Then corporation establishment.

Three conditions, one line. The points score is the middle one, and the least self-sufficient. Corporation establishment stands as its own requirement, not a points item among others.

On the threshold number, the page prints 60. Its own worked example carries the title Example of 60 Points. No 80 appears anywhere on the fetched page.

The OASIS courses, with their printed values

Every value in that table comes from the course's own header on the page. The page prints the completion rules too.

OASIS-1 requires a minimum attendance of 80 percent. OASIS-7 graduates only after six months of incubation residency.

The prerequisite anchor

Three families anchor the list on intellectual property: holding or registering IPRs, co-inventing them, or applying for them. A fourth is institutional — receiving government startup support, or completing OASIS-6 or OASIS-9.

The last two are status and capital. Three or more years on an E-1 professor or E-3 researcher visa. Or a secured investment of KRW 100 million or more, which the center verifies and recommends.

The page prints one prerequisite value inline. IPR applications count up to 10 points, regardless of how many you file. Its overlap note caps multiple IPRs at 60 combined points.

The prerequisite table itself renders flattened. Its point values do not map row-by-row from the fetched text.

This post prints the unambiguous values. It defers the full grid to the operator's table and to the scoring simulator on this site.

An inconsistency, stated plainly

The page's section headers do not agree with its threshold line. The prerequisite block carries the heading 180 Points.

The elective block carries 120 Points. The threshold line prints 60 points as sufficient.

This post does not reconcile those numbers, because reconciliation would be invention. The page supports the threshold line, the per-course values, and the inline item values. Those are what the simulator on this site scores against.

How and where to file

You file with immigration, not with the operator. HiKorea is the Ministry of Justice's own system, and it splits two ways.

Some applications go online through 전자민원. Its own 민원선택 list includes 등록외국인의 체류자격 변경허가 and 등록외국인의 체류기간연장허가 — change of status and extension of stay, for foreigners already registered in Korea.

Everything else needs an office. Book a slot through 방문예약, and take the right form from 민원서식.

One boundary worth knowing: issuing a visa for the first time is not a HiKorea e-application. HiKorea's own 사증신청 결과조회 link points at visa.go.kr instead.

When to file

There is no annual window. D-8-4 is a status application, not a call with a deadline, so the timing is set by when you clear the threshold and hold the corporation.

What does run on a calendar is the OASIS course that earns the points. The Global Startup Center printed its 2026 window as applications opening 14 April and closing 18 May.