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A Chinese passport holder with a US visa has a flight scheduled from Beijing to Los Angeles in mid-November.

This person wants to go to South Korea for a 3 day conference; the conference is one week prior to the PEK-LAX flight.

If this person buys a round-trip ticket from China to Korea, will the transit visa be sufficient? Or will they need a regular visa?

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What if the original ticket were modified to make it ICN-PEK-LAX?

Some Transit Information Here. It says "Holding a confirmed onward flight ticket for departure within 30 days." Would a return ticket to China than a flight to LAX a week later be sufficiently "onward"?

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  • @pnuts It is a single question about South Korean Transit Visas, asked a couple different ways.
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    Commented Sep 16, 2016 at 14:11
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The link from Korea Immigration covers your questions, not sure why you need to ask again.

China is not on the list for a visa free 30 day tourist and transit stay, so that eliminates your PEK-ICN-PEK option (unless you apply for a regular visa).

Having a US Visa allows you to do a up to 30 day stay for transit, which means you must have a through ticket PEK-ICN-LAX.

The term "transit" by common usage in airport/immigration parlance means traveling from A to C via B, not A to B to A again.

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