Japan Working Holiday vs South Korea Working Holiday (H-1)

Each participation is one year; Canada and United Kingdom nationals can use two consecutive years, and some other nationalities can take a second one-year stay.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan

The stay is up to 12 months. Extensions are available only to US citizens (up to 6 months) and UK citizens (up to 1 year); Canadians may stay up to 24 months.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Korea

Allowed: employment incidental to the stay, to supplement travel funds. Not allowed: work at bars, cabarets, nightclubs and gambling premises.

Temporary employment up to 25 hours a week without a separate work permit (Canadians exempt from the limit); private-school study allowed; employment and academic limits differ for Israel, Australia, Hong Kong, Italy, Belgium and Denmark.

• $60

  Visa application fee for a single-entry visa for a stay of 91 days or longer; the amount differs for some passport countries and multiple-entry visas cost more.

Apply for the working holiday visa at a Japanese embassy or consulate in your country, subject to the annual limit for your nationality.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan

You must be in your home country when you apply and when the visa is granted.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Korea

Non-permanent residents are taxed in Japan on Japan-source income and on foreign-source income paid in or remitted to Japan; foreign-source income paid and kept abroad is outside the Japanese tax base.

A foreign resident whose total period of domicile or residence in Korea is five years or less in the ten years before the end of the tax period is taxed on foreign-source income only to the extent it is paid in Korea or remitted to Korea.