📄 Guide to Health Certificate Issuance for Restaurant and Cafe Part-Time Jobs

Hearing about passing a part-time job interview, and imagining the first paycheck with excitement, have you ever had the boss suddenly request, "Please bring a health certificate when you come to work"?

For foreigners and international students starting a part-time job in Korea for the first time, this one statement can give you a headache.😰

In short, a health certificate is a required document for food-related part-time jobs.

I'll summarize what a health certificate often required in Korean part-time jobs is and how to issue it.

📄 What is a health certificate?

The official name of the health certificate is Health Diagnosis Report.

According to Korea's Food Sanitation Act, anyone directly involved with food must undergo this health examination.

Thus, regardless of nationality, visa type, or employment form, if working in the food industry, everyone must obtain a health certificate.

🗂️ Sectors requiring a health certificate

If you work in the following places, you need a health certificate.

• Restaurants, cafes, bakeries

• Kitchen in delivery food outlets

• Convenience stores (when handling food)

• School/company cafeterias, canteens

• Food manufacturing/packaging-related tasks

👉 International students and foreign part-time workers are no exception.

📝 How to obtain a health certificate

1️⃣ Visit a nearby health center

The quickest and cheapest way to get a health certificate is to use a health center.

🔍 You can easily find it by searching [area name + health center] on Naver/Kakao Maps!

• ex) Yongsan Health Center, Gangnam Health Center

2️⃣ Things to prepare