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Same name, different pocket: the paid retention subsidy goes to the employer, the unpaid one straight to the worker. A 20-person workplace needs half its staff off for 30 days; a 99-person one needs ten - and both numbers are ten.

The state returns two-thirds of the shutdown allowance the employer paid - one-half at a large firm. But cut more than half the month's contract hours and a large firm gets two-thirds as well, because item (ii) of the provision carries no large-firm bracket.

On a 3m won monthly wage a priority-support firm's worker gets 6.6m from the state and 1.6m from the employer; at a large firm it is 2.2m and 6m - the same 8.2m won either way. Enter your wage and firm size to see the split.

The leaving confirmation has nine codes, and they live on the back of a statutory form, not outside the law. Code 11 goes to art. 58(2), code 12 points at Table 2, and 26 is not a bar by itself.

The base amount comes not from your takings but from the figure you insured on. And one missed premium is enough to block it if you have only just passed a year.

The list has thirteen items, the same as for employees - but it carries one figure the employee list does not: a change of 20 per cent or more to the contract terms. And what the borrowing list leaves out matters more.

Three more payments sit beside the jobseeker's benefit. None of them carries its amount in the Act, and two are sent to a table in the civil-service travel rules - which turns out to have no distance in it.

The Act lists what disqualifies, not what qualifies. The exceptions are the thirteen items of Table 2, and only four of them carry a figure: two months, three hours, 30 days, age 8.

It pays half of the jobseeker benefit you leave behind. But you must leave at least half, start more than 14 days after filing, and earn under 5.74m won a month at the new job.

Only 2,052 won separates the cap from the floor, so doubling the salary barely moves the daily figure. And the year runs from your last working day, not from the day you apply.

Past an ordinary wage of 2.5m won the total lands at 23.1m either way. Dismissal is barred by statute, service keeps accruing, and claims open one month in.

The ₩200,000 tax-free meal allowance carries a proviso: “limited to a person who is not provided with meals.” Childbirth support, meanwhile, is tax-free in full with no cap, and childcare allowance runs ₩200,000 per child.

Korea's 2026 jobseeker benefit: 60% of average wages, capped at 68,100 won with a 66,048 floor — a band just 2,052 won wide. Daily amount and benefit days.