Korea Forestry Direct Payment Calculator

What does this forestry payment calculator check?

Korea forestry direct payments are not automatic payments for owning woodland.
The land, actual forest-product production or silvicultural work, applicant requirements and continuing duties must qualify.
This tool helps foresters and family members translate registration records, area, working days and income into a conditional estimate and a list of questions for the local forestry office.

• Review each parcel after registration and land exclusions.
  
• Calculate general-product, songyi mushroom or silviculture bands, including individual, corporate and household caps.
  
• Save unconfirmed work, income and household checks with the parcel table for an authority review.
  

This calculator uses registration certificates, sales records and forest work logs, rather than land purchase prices or equipment budgets used in a rural-relocation calculator.
Its result is not an award letter and should not be treated as committed income or guaranteed debt-repayment funds.

2026 payment types and area rates

The rates come from Korea Forest Service Notice 2026-101.
General products and songyi mushrooms are forest-product production payments with different area bands.
Silviculture uses qualifying land with recognized planting or forest-tending work.
A small-household alternative pays KRW 1,300,000 annually per qualifying household.

Apply each declining rate only to the land in its own band.
Do not multiply the entire area by the last-band rate or deduct the minimum eligibility area first.
Rates may change by a later notice reflecting the budget, so verify them again for a new program year.

Minimum land, work and sales requirements

An individual must have previous-year non-agricultural comprehensive income below KRW 37,000,000.
Exactly KRW 37,000,000 fails this threshold.
Use the legally defined amount after excluding agricultural income, rather than total salary, business turnover or all bank deposits.
This individual income threshold is not applied to corporations.

Use recognized annual sales supported by the permitted evidence and period.
The 2026 notice describes previous-year or application-year sales and certain annual-average evidence methods.
A simple receipt alone may be insufficient: verify transaction details and objective payment evidence with the reviewing office.

Registration dates and recognized silvicultural land

• 1 ha = 10,000 m²; 3,000 m² is 0.3 ha, not 3 ha.
  
• Subtract fallow, converted, overlapping-payment or otherwise ineligible portions.
  Check national or public forests and restricted land according to the payment type.
  
• For silviculture, use land with recognized work in the ten years before the application year.
  For 2026, check recognized planting or forest tending performed in 2016–2025 by the applicant, spouse or direct ascendant or descendant.
  Repeated work on the same area does not create additional hectares.
  

A parcel with a confirmed out-of-window registration, invalid registration or ineligible-land answer contributes zero; other parcels remain available for review.
An unknown registration or eligibility answer keeps the total pending.
Pending does not mean rejected: it means the necessary evidence has not been entered or confirmed.

Rural residence and primary-business alternatives

Confirm legally defined rural residence in the same or an adjoining city, county or district as the land.
Living outside a major city does not automatically satisfy this definition.
Applicants outside the qualifying rural area may use the applicable primary-business test, but other work, income and land requirements still apply.

The tool does not query administrative boundaries or validate expenditure evidence.
Choose the confirmation answer only after checking the applicable route against the records.
Managed land used for the primary-business test and land eligible for payment are different concepts; do not transfer the former amount directly into the payment formula.

30, 50 and 60 ha caps and overlapping benefits

An individual with 3 ha of general-product land and 29.5 ha paid under the previous-year agricultural area scheme has only 0.5 ha remaining.
The area-only reference is 0.5 × 940,000 = KRW 470,000.
If other conditions remain unknown, that is not a forecast of money to be received.

A current-year agricultural small-farm payment recipient and members of that farm household must check the production-payment exclusion.
The forestry small-household alternative also excludes current-year agricultural area-payment recipients and members of their farm households.
The same parcel cannot be claimed for agricultural, production and silviculture payments together.
Do not simply add independent general-product and songyi calculations.

The KRW 1,300,000 small-household alternative

Small land area alone does not establish eligibility.
Confirm household membership and the basic eligibility of every production-payment recipient; corporations are excluded.
The household can include a spouse, unmarried direct descendants under 19 and people separated into another household for less than three years for reasons other than marriage, even when not listed on the same residence record.

An exception can allow a choice above 0.5 ha when eligible land is below 1.55 ha, the other additional requirements hold, and the combined household area payment is strictly below KRW 1,300,000.
Equality does not satisfy that exception.
For multiple recipients, sum their separately calculated payments; this tool asks for an authority-confirmed combined amount rather than applying one set of bands to the household’s total land.

For a fully qualifying household with 0.5 ha of general-product land, the area reference is KRW 470,000 and the small-household alternative is KRW 1,300,000.
These are alternatives, not a combined KRW 1,770,000 payment.
If the additional conditions fail, review the ordinary area-payment result against the common eligibility requirements.

Step-by-step use and worked examples

1. Choose general products, songyi or silviculture, the applicant type and whether ordinary rules apply.
   
2. Enter each parcel’s registration date, area, excluded portion and validity/land-right confirmations.
   
3. Enter work periods, days, sales, income, agricultural-payment records and other household allocations.
   
4. Open the optional small-household section and include every relevant member’s records.
   
5. Review pending or unmet rows and excess land, then save the CSV to compare with the supporting documents.
   

Practical scenarios and limits

The displayed total is a planning amount rounded to whole won.
Official measurement, truncation, payment restrictions and budget adjustments can change the award.
The March 4–April 30, 2026 registration window has closed; the page does not promise late applications or retroactive payment.

Frequently asked questions