A Korean passport photo is 3.5 × 4.5 cm, with 3.2–3.6 cm from the top of the head to the chin; the file for an online application is 413 × 531 pixels, a JPG of 500 KB or less.
This page crops your photo to that size and makes the application file and a 4×6 print sheet. The photo is handled inside your browser and is not sent anywhere.
Choose the size (passport, residence card or 3 × 4 cm), then press “Choose a photo”.
Drag the photo, and pinch or use “Zoom”, until the chin is on the lower line and the top of the head is inside the band. Use “Straighten” if the photo is tilted.
Press “Make photo files”.
Use “Save photo JPG” for an online application, and “Save print sheet” to print a 4×6 photo and cut along the grey marks.
If something goes wrong
On a phone, the page does not scroll while your finger is on the frame. To scroll, swipe outside it.
If a warning says the photo is enlarged, zoom out a little or use a larger photo.
The background is not changed, so take the photo in front of a plain white wall. The issuing office decides whether a photo is accepted; this page only sets the size and position.
How the photo crop worksHow this works
The official sizes
The passport office's photo page (passport.go.kr, rules revised October 2022) sets a Korean passport photo at 3.5 cm wide and 4.5 cm tall, with 3.2 to 3.6 cm from the top of the head to the chin. The top of the head means the skull, not the hair. The background must be plain white with no border, and the photo must have been taken within six months.
For an online passport application the same office asks for a JPG of 500 KB or less, 413 × 531 pixels recommended, and it only accepts 395 to 431 pixels wide and 507 to 550 tall. The immigration office's page for a residence card (alien registration) gives the same 3.5 × 4.5 cm with a face of 2.5 to 3.5 cm. The 3 × 4 cm size is what many job and school forms ask for; no official page sets a head size for it, so this page shows no head band for it.
Fitting your photo to the frame
Your photo is drawn under a fixed frame with the chosen size's shape. Drag it with a finger or the mouse, pinch with two fingers or turn the mouse wheel to zoom (up to five times), and use the small slider to straighten it by up to 10 degrees either way. Arrow keys move it too. The photo is always scaled the same amount in both directions, so a face is never stretched or squashed, and it always covers the whole frame, so the file never has an empty corner.
For the passport and residence card sizes, a band and a line are drawn over the frame: the chin goes on the line and the top of the head goes inside the band. The band's height is the official minimum and maximum head length. The official pages give only the length, so the line's position, 6 mm above the bottom edge, is ours. If the photo has to be enlarged to fill the frame, a warning appears, because a blurry photo is a reason for refusal.
The two files you get
The first file is the photo itself, a JPG at 413 × 531 pixels for the passport and residence card sizes, or 354 × 472 for 3 × 4 cm. For the passport, the JPG quality is lowered step by step until the file is 500 KB or less. The file carries 300 dpi in its header, so Word or a print dialog prints it at its real size in centimetres.
The second file is a print sheet for a 4×6 inch (10×15 cm) photo print, 1800 × 1200 pixels at 300 dpi. It holds as many copies as fit: eight of the 3.5 × 4.5 cm photo, nine of the 3 × 4 cm one. Thin grey cut marks sit in the white gaps, never on a photo. Order it as a normal 4×6 print at a photo shop or kiosk, then cut along the marks.
What this page does not do
It does not change the background, find your face or fix lighting. Take the photo in front of a plain white wall with even light, facing straight ahead. The passport office says it does not recommend photos taken with a phone and refuses edited ones, such as a background removed by software. Moving, zooming and slightly turning the photo is all this page does.
Whether a photo is accepted is decided by the office that issues the passport or card, not by this page. The passport office runs its own online photo check, which you can use before applying. Your photo is opened and cut inside your browser and is not sent anywhere. As on every tool page here, one count is sent when files are made: which tool and which language, nothing about the photo.
Will a photo made here be accepted for my passport?
This page sets the size and the position of the head; it cannot promise acceptance. The issuing office checks the photo itself: lighting, expression, glasses, the white background. The passport office's own online photo check (passport.go.kr) can be used before you apply.
Can it make the background white?
No. The background is left as it is, because the passport office refuses photos whose background was removed by software. Take the photo in front of a plain white wall with even light.
Is my photo uploaded anywhere?
No. The photo is opened, cut and saved inside your browser, and this tool has no server step. Both JPG files are made on your device and saved when you press their save buttons.