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E-invoicing in South Korea

Live Confidence: high Checked 21 Jul 2026
ModelCTC near-real-time post-issuance reporting · NTS e-Tax Invoice (전자세금계산서) via Hometax, ASP or ERP. Not pre-clearance: the invoice goes to the buyer, the issuance detail goes to the NTS.
Required formatNTS national standard XML with a mandatory digital signature using an accredited public CA certificate or an NTS-issued e-Tax certificate. Not EN 16931, not Peppol.
TimelineLive since 2011 · sole traders ≥ KRW 80m since Jul 2024

Who is in scope

Domestic B2B and B2G. All corporations regardless of size; sole proprietors whose prior-year per-place-of-business supply value (taxable + exempt) ≥ KRW 80,000,000, with the obligation starting on 1 July of the following year. Once in scope, always in scope. Effectively resident-only. B2C is covered by cash receipts (현금영수증), not e-Tax Invoice.

Key dates

  • 1 Jan 2011 All corporations (법인사업자) mandatory
  • 1 Jan 2012 Sole proprietors with prior-year supply ≥ KRW 1.0 billion
  • 1 Jul 2014 Threshold lowered to KRW 300 million
  • 1 Jul 2022 Threshold lowered to KRW 200 million
  • 1 Jul 2023 Threshold lowered to KRW 100 million
  • 1 Jul 2024 Threshold lowered to KRW 80 million — still the operative threshold in July 2026
  • 1 Jul 2026 Annual wave: sole proprietors whose FY2025 supply value reached KRW 80m come into scope. The threshold itself did not change.
What practitioners get burned by

The '24-hour transmission rule' is a paraphrase — the statutory rule is transmission by the day AFTER the issuance date (calendar days), not a rolling 24-hour clock. 'Issued' means the file reached the buyer's inbox or the NTS system; an SMS or download link is not issuance. A separate document type (전자계산서) applies to VAT-exempt supplies and teams routinely wire only 세금계산서 and miss it. Monthly-summary invoices may be issued up to the 10th of the following month. Beware the Pagero/Thomson Reuters Korea page: it is dated Nov 2022, still shows the superseded KRW 100m threshold, and ranks highly in search.

Sources

3 of 4 are primary sources. Mandate dates move — treat this page as a starting point and confirm against the primary source before committing a plan.

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Planning for South Korea?

A page is a starting point. A scoped analysis gives you the specification, the mapping and the effort — in weeks, not quarters.