Objective <p>This study provides the first context-specific meta-analytic synthesis of job satisfaction among South Korean police officers in a collectivist policing system and examines the patterns of associations between job satisfaction and its correlates.</p> Methods <p>A total of 185 empirical studies conducted in Korea were systematically reviewed, yielding 644 independent effect sizes. Random-effects meta-analytic models were applied to estimate average associations between job satisfaction and its correlates.</p> Results <p>In the Korean police, job satisfaction shows strong positive associations with variables related to intrinsic motivation and work conditions and rewards, including job motivation (<i>r</i> = .579), job itself (<i>r</i> = .534), empowerment (<i>r</i> = .500), and promotion (<i>r</i> = .587). Among organizational factors, relational and support-related organizational variables showed relatively large associations with job satisfaction, including social capital (<i>r</i> = .468), communication (<i>r</i> = .466), and perceived organizational support (<i>r</i> = .448). By contrast, variables that are negatively associated with job satisfaction, such as job stress (<i>r</i> = − .215), exhibit relatively smaller effect sizes, and demographic variables report very small effect sizes overall (e.g., age <i>r</i> = .005, education <i>r</i> = − .026). Job satisfaction is also strongly associated with key work attitudes and behavioral indicators including organizational commitment (<i>r</i> = .587), organizational citizenship behavior (<i>r</i> = .576), and turnover intention (<i>r</i> = − .482).</p> Conclusion <p>The findings suggest that job satisfaction in Korean policing is systematically associated with individual motivational factors, work conditions and rewards, and relational organizational conditions. This study contributes to criminological research by providing a contextualized empirical synthesis of the correlates of job satisfaction in policing.</p>