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South Korea passport — 35×45 mm photo maker

35×45 mm at 600 dpi, head 70–80% of the frame, plain white behind you. Guides and a print sheet, on your device.

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35×45 mm · 827×1063 px · 600 dpi

Filestay is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to any government or visa authority, including the U.S. Department of State. We make the file match the published technical requirements — acceptance is always the issuing authority's decision.

The official requirement

Photo size
35×45 mm
Pixels
827 × 1063
Resolution
600 dpi
Head height
70–80% of image height
Background
Plain white

Also required

  • Head height 32–36 mm
  • Ears must be visible

Source: Korean MOFA passport guide. Requirements change — check the source before you submit.

South Korea wants a bigger head in the frame than most authorities: 70 to 80 per cent of the height, where many specifications begin at 50 or 55. The portrait that results is close-cropped, with little room left for background, shoulders or error.

How much of the frame the head has to fill

Seventy to eighty per cent of 45 mm is 31.5 to 36.0 mm chin to crown, and the published 32 to 36 mm sits inside that, so 32 mm is the working floor. What remains is the entire margin budget: 9 mm at the top, 13.5 mm at the bottom, split between the gap above your hair and everything below the chin. Move the camera closer rather than cropping later.

What gets this one sent back

  • Ears must be visible, so hair goes behind them before the shutter. It is easy to miss on your own face.
  • At 80 per cent of the frame, lens distortion shows. Stand back 1.5 m and zoom instead of moving in close.
  • Nine millimetres of spare height is very little. Too high and the crown clips; too low and the chin crowds the edge.
  • A 32 mm face inside a 45 mm frame leaves the collar sitting close to the bottom edge. A high round neckline photographs there as a plain band of fabric with nothing to read, so wear something with a visible collar line and the frame keeps a bottom to it.

Half a metre clear of the wall so your shadow falls behind you, camera at about 1.5 metres so the lens does not widen your nose, soft light from the front. Take several.

Getting the print right

35×45 mm is a physical instruction; 827×1063 pixels is what it becomes at 600 dpi. The head band follows the same conversion — 70–80% of 45 mm is 31.5–36.0 mm, or 744–850 pixels in the exported file.

No digital ceiling is published for this one, which means the print is the binding version and the file only has to survive being printed. Use the sheet rather than sending a single image to a shop — several copies at true size on one page costs the same and covers the spare everyone ends up needing.

Print at 100%, not "fit to page" — the default shrink is invisible to you and measurable to whoever checks it.

How it works

  1. 01Add a recent photoFacing the camera, plain wall behind. HEIC from an iPhone works directly.
  2. 02Frame it to 35×45 mmDrag and zoom until your head fills 70–80% of the frame height, matching the dashed guide.
  3. 03Check the warningsThe border area is measured against "plain white" and flagged if it is uneven.
  4. 04Download or printSave the 827×1063 JPG, or take a print sheet with several copies laid out at true size.

Questions people actually ask

Why does this look so much more zoomed in than my old passport photo?
Because the head fills 70 to 80 per cent of the height rather than the 50-something per cent other countries allow. On the same 35×45 mm card that is close to a centimetre of extra face. Trimming a looser photo will not rescue it either: cropping a small head into a tight frame discards pixels and leaves a soft, enlarged face. Reshoot from the right distance.
Can I wear my hair down?
You can, as long as your ears stay visible, which is the only hair-related rule here. In practice that means hair behind the shoulders or tucked back, not falling forward along the jaw. Check it on the photograph rather than in a mirror, because a mirror reverses the view and shows a slightly different angle, and hair that looked clear of the ear often is not.
How do I check the head height before I pay for prints?
Measure the same way the rule is written: from the underside of the chin to the top of the hair, not to the top of the forehead. Against the 45 mm side that distance has to land between 31.5 and 36 mm, and the dashed guide in the tool marks both ends of that band, so you are matching a shape rather than trusting a number. On the exported file the same check is 744 to 850 pixels of the 1063. If the crown sits above the upper line, the frame is too tight and no amount of resizing fixes it — the photograph has to be retaken from further back.
What size does a South Korea photo have to be?
35×45 mm, which is 827×1063 pixels at 600 dpi. The head, measured from the bottom of the chin to the top of the hair, must fill 70–80% of the photo height.
What background colour is required?
Plain white. The border area is measured and flagged if it is uneven. The background is never replaced digitally — a cut-out edge is visible and gets photos rejected.
Is my South Korea photo uploaded anywhere?
No — the crop and the JPEG encode both run in this browser tab. A biometric image of your face is not a file to hand to a web service.
How do I print 35×45 mm at the right size?
Use the print sheet — several copies laid out at true 35×45 mm with faint cut lines — and set the printer to 100% rather than "fit to page". At 600 dpi the file is 827×1063 px, and a driver that shrinks by 3% turns 35 mm into something a ruler catches.

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