Korea Nursing Aide Training Hours and Exam Plan Calculator

Review recognized theory and hospital or other placement hours, then project training completion with actual weekly slots, activity starts, closures and your selected exam date.

Korean rules verified in 2026: 740 theory hours, 780 total placement hours, including 400 hospital-level hours. Count hospital hours once within total placement.

Review hour thresholds and a timetable. The provider and KHPLEI must confirm education, personal eligibility, disqualifications, institution designation and recognized hours.

1. Course scope and recognized records

Use recognized hours through the day before the plan starts. Do not repeat hospital hours in other placement. Birth centers, ordinary volunteering/work, unapproved in-school placement and credited absences are not automatically counted.

2. Starts, completion target and selected exam

Enter the completion deadline you checked with your provider/KHPLEI. No national deadline is assumed. Exams run within announced windows; confirm your own selected date. Projections cover five years from plan start.

3. Feasible weekly timetable

Enter hours with up to two decimals. Use actual, non-overlapping theory and placement slots, excluding breaks. Each activity repeats from its own start date. The 24-hour input ceiling is a physical bound, not an approved training standard.

Planned theory and placement hours for Monday through Sunday
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4. Holidays, closures and absences

Add public holidays after checking actual operations. Both dates are inclusive; overlapping exclusions count once. Confirm whether credited attendance also qualifies as completed training hours.

Complete the dates and inputs to calculate missing hours and dates.

  • Enter a valid date between 2026 and 2100.
  • Enter an exam date after the completion target.

Next checks and preparation

  1. Compare missing hours with official records and training/placement certificates.
  2. Confirm hospital-level classification, placement arrangements and available dates with your provider.
  3. Recalculate after confirming closures, absences, breaks, your completion deadline and selected exam.
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It supports people returning to work and family members coordinating tuition, work, care duties and placement availability.
Use the missing-hour review to discuss additional classes or hospital placements with your training provider before committing to a timetable.

Korea-specific rules verified in 2026

The results use Korean law verified on October 8, 2026, rather than nursing assistant requirements in another jurisdiction.
Meeting the hour thresholds does not establish personal exam eligibility, guarantee admission, predict a pass or authorize certificate issuance.
Your provider and the Korea Health Personnel Licensing Examination Institute (KHPLEI) must confirm your education route, recognized records and individual restrictions.

The 740, 780 and 400-hour requirements

Article 2 of the Korean Nursing Act Enforcement Rule, effective June 21, 2025, sets the ordinary training thresholds below.
The 400 hospital-level hours are included within total placement hours.
Minimum total training is therefore 1,520 hours: 740 theory plus 780 placement.
Adding the hospital minimum again to obtain 1,920 hours would double-count it.

Ordinary Korean nursing aide training thresholds and their inclusion relationship
ActivityMinimum hoursEvidence to check
Theory740A designated nursing aide training institution
Total placement780Eligible provider-arranged medical facility or public health center; birth centers excluded
Hospital-level portion400Facility classification under Medical Service Act Article 3(2)(3)

Do not classify a clinic as a hospital-level facility merely because of its name.
Confirm the legal facility category and provider arrangements.
Eligible hospital hours above 400 can contribute to total placement hours, but excess theory hours cannot replace placement hours.

Recognized records and input meanings

Hours already completed

Enter recognized theory, hospital-level placement and other eligible placement hours through the day before your plan starts.
Other placement excludes hours already entered in the hospital field.
A future booking belongs in the timetable, not in completed hours.
Hours can have up to two decimal places.
Ordinary work, volunteering and unapproved in-school practice are not automatically eligible placement.

Four evidence confirmations

Confirm provider designation and placement classification, personal education and eligibility route, recognized records, and the actual timetable with closures and exam dates.
Each checkbox records your own verification with the institutions; the calculator does not inspect evidence.
Loading the example leaves these confirmations unchecked.
Editing recorded hours or a timetable clears the corresponding confirmation so you can review it again.

Compare your records with the relevant training-course completion certificate and medical-facility placement certificate.
Resolve discrepancies with the issuing institution before treating hours as approved.
Article 8 of the Enforcement Rule and KHPLEI guidance also describe education records and other certificate-application documents; this tool does not perform that application review.

Missing hours and the minimum additional total

Count hospital placement once

  • Total placement = hospital hours + other eligible placement hours
  • Missing theory = max(0, 740 − completed theory)
  • Missing total placement = max(0, 780 − completed placement)
  • Missing hospital placement = max(0, 400 − completed hospital placement)
  • Minimum additional placement = max(missing total placement, missing hospital placement)
  • Minimum additional total = missing theory + minimum additional placement

Deficits never become negative.
The three deficits explain separate thresholds, but simply adding them exaggerates the minimum because hospital hours belong within total placement.
If your actual timetable uses other placements before hospital slots become available, the eventual additional placement can exceed the theoretical minimum.
Calculations use integer hundredths of an hour to preserve a small shortfall immediately below a threshold.

How the weekly timetable produces dates

The projection follows the calendar from your plan start, repeats the Monday-to-Sunday activity slots, and observes each activity’s own start date.
It skips closures or absences for the selected activity.
This makes a later hospital placement opening or a single closure visible instead of dividing remaining hours by an average weekly total.
Theory and placement slots on the same day must be genuinely non-overlapping and exclude breaks.

Partial final slots and unused capacity

Theory is allocated only until its 740-hour threshold is met.
Hospital placement is allocated while the hospital or total placement threshold remains short, then other placement fills the remaining total deficit.
Hospital-first allocation is an arithmetic ordering for that day, not permission to attend overlapping sessions.
If only four hours are needed on a final eight-hour placement day, the ledger allocates four hours.
Unused theory slots are not automatically reassigned to placement.

The projection runs for five calendar years from the plan start.
This is a calculation horizon, not a statutory training duration.
Very low capacity, prolonged exclusions or a late start can leave a threshold unfinished within that horizon.
The 24-hour combined daily input ceiling is only a physical consistency check; it does not validate provider operating hours or an approved attendance policy.

Step-by-step use

  1. Confirm that ordinary domestic training applies and enter the three recognized completed-hour amounts.
    Select the separate-course option for alternative placement, disaster or education exceptions.
  2. Enter your plan start, each activity start, a provider-confirmed completion target and your own selected exam date.
    The completion target must precede the exam.
  3. Enter feasible weekly hours after excluding breaks, then add actual public holidays, provider closures and absences.
    Both ends of an exclusion date range are included.
  4. Compare the deficits, first threshold dates, final completion date and hours still missing at the end of the target date.
    Prioritize hospital placement discussions if its independent threshold remains short.
  5. Save a TXT review or print the results for your provider.
    Reconcile the timetable, records and document deadlines, then record the evidence confirmations.

Worked example: 40 theory and 40 hospital hours remain

All hours and dates in this example are fictional, including the exam date; they are not an official exam announcement.
With 700 theory, 360 hospital and 380 other placement hours, total placement is 740.
All three deficits are 40, but minimum additional training is 80 hours, rather than 120.

Additional training starts October 12, 2026

Use two theory and four hospital hours each Monday through Friday, no other placement slots, and an all-activity exclusion on October 16.
All activity starts are October 12.
The hospital deficit is filled on October 26, while the theory deficit is filled on November 9.
The final threshold date is November 9.
These concurrent activity days assume actual non-overlapping slots.

A November 13 completion target leaves four calendar days.
A fictional November 21, 2026 selected exam leaves twelve days.
Weekend slots, later placement starts or additional absences change the projection.
Since the example confirms no real evidence, its status stays a provisional plan awaiting review.

Worked example: total placement met but hospital hours short

740 theory, 300 hospital and 480 other hours

Total placement is already 780, but the independent hospital threshold is short by 100 hours.
Minimum additional placement is 100 hours.
A timetable offering only other placements cannot produce a final completion date.
You need eligible hospital-level slots, rather than simply more total placement.

At five actual hospital placement days per week and eight hours per day, 100 hours require thirteen placement days, with four hours allocated on the final day.
Hospital hours then total 400 and overall placement totals 880.
Do not reduce the recognized 480 other hours to 380 or transfer excess placement to theory.
Confirm the additional placement’s approved hours and dates with the institutions.

Interpret margins and coordinate a return to work

Target and exam margins

Target margin is the completion target minus the projected final threshold date in calendar days.
Zero means completion on the target date; a negative number means a later finish.
The target-date deficits show which activity still needs additional capacity.
Exam margin is the interval to your selected exam and does not guarantee registration or document-submission eligibility.

Records and family availability

Reduce slots when care duties or paid work make a weekday unavailable and set hospital starts to actual placement openings.
Recalculate after record corrections or changes in provider availability.
If all hour thresholds are already met, the historical completion date is unknown because you did not enter it; the page reports already-completed thresholds rather than inventing a past date.

Closures, credited absences and separate exceptions

Alternative placement is not automatically approved

Enforcement Rule Article 2(2) provides a basis for replacing up to 234 placement hours at a training institution meeting separately prescribed conditions.
The hospital-level minimum is excluded from that replacement.
Do not enter in-school practice as ordinary other placement without checking approval.
Disaster-related changes and foreign or nursing-education exceptions also require separate rules and evidence; selecting that scope withholds ordinary-course results.

Public holidays are not automatically excluded because some institutions may operate.
Add actual closures to the exclusion list.
You can exclude theory only, one placement type or all activities; overlapping ranges do not remove the same activity date twice.
Credited attendance is not automatically equivalent to recognized completed training hours.
Plans for 2027 and later hold the rules verified October 8, 2026 constant; recheck the legislation and exam operating rules for the actual year.

Frequently asked questions

Is 1,520 combined training hours enough?

The combined total alone is insufficient.
Check 740 theory, 780 total placement and 400 hospital-level hours independently.
Extra hours in one category do not replace a deficit in another.

Are 400 hospital hours additional to 780 placement hours?

No; the hospital minimum is included within overall placement.
Add hospital and other eligible placement once and do not add another 400 to the total.

Can clinic hours be entered as hospital-level placement?

Do not reclassify clinic-level hours as hospital-level hours.
Confirm provider arrangements and legal facility classification, then enter eligible clinic hours as other placement.

How are holidays and absences handled?

Enter an inclusive exclusion range and affected activity.
Overlapping ranges are not double-deducted.
There is no automatic holiday calendar or credited-absence conversion.

Does this apply the 234-hour alternative or education exemptions?

Separate-course results are withheld.
The institutions must confirm alternative-placement conditions, disaster rules and foreign or nursing-education exceptions.

Why are the completion target and exam date separate?

Provider completion and documentation deadlines can differ from your selected exam.
Use the deadline you confirmed, before the exam date.
KHPLEI runs period-based exams; the calculator assumes no single national exam day.

Does meeting the hours establish exam eligibility?

Hour completion is one part of the review.
Nursing Act Article 6 education routes, institution designation, recognized hours, disqualifications, restrictions, exam registration and documents require separate confirmation.

Can I plan a later year and save the review?

You can project a target within five years and save a TXT review.
For 2027 and later, the calculation holds the verified 2026 rules constant, so check amendments and announcements for your exam year.
The saved plan is not an official completion certificate.

Official sources and your next provider discussion

Verified October 8, 2026 through the National Law Information OPEN API.
Nursing Act Article 6 uses current MST 283885, effective September 11, 2026.
Training thresholds use Enforcement Rule Article 2, MST 272543, effective June 21, 2025.
KHPLEI eligibility guidance cross-checks the same thresholds and separate exception boundaries.

Bring the missing hours and dates to your provider

Enter your recognized records and feasible timetable above, then save the review.
Discuss hospital-level shortfalls and available placements first.
Check completion deadlines, the selected exam and certificate issuance before arranging further tuition payments or family commitments.