#Labor Standards Act
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No Written Employment Contract in Korea — A Fine of Up to 5 Million Won, Even With 4 or Fewer Workers; 500,000 or 300,000 Won per Item for Part-Time and Fixed-Term Staff
Article 17 of Korea's Labor Standards Act requires the employer to hand the worker a document stating wages, contractual hours, holidays and annual leave, on pain of a fine of up to 5 million won, and it applies to workplaces with 4 or fewer workers. For fixed-term and part-time workers a second Act adds an administrative fine of 500,000 or 300,000 won on a first violation for each item left out.
Korea's Overtime Limit Checker - The 52-Hour Week Is the Ordinary-Hours Figure
52 is art. 50's 40 plus art. 53's 12, and that 40 is the ordinary-hours figure - under a flexible scheme it becomes 48 or 52, so a single week may lawfully reach 64. Enter the scheme and the worker to see this week's ceiling.
Korea's Habitual Wage Arrears Checker - "Five Times" Means Five Workers
Read art. 43-4's "five or more times" as five late paydays and you have it wrong - the Decree counts the workers who went unpaid. Enter the convictions and the arrears to see which of the four routes attach.
Korea's Unpaid Wage Interest Calculator - 20% a Year, and Three Times in Court
Fourteen days after you leave, and from the next day interest runs at 20% a year. Since 23 October 2025 it runs on wages unpaid while you are still employed, and any one of three grounds lets you claim up to three times in court.
Korea's Holiday Substitution Checker - The Weekly Rest Day Has No Substitution Clause
"Work the holiday, rest next week instead" - the basis is one proviso in art. 55(2), and it is attached to public holidays only. Enter the kind of holiday and the kind of agreement to see whether the substitution stands and what the premium comes to.
Korea's Annual-Leave Substitution Checker - Since 2022 a Public Holiday Is Not a "Working Day"
"Use your annual leave on the public holiday" - art. 62 allows substitution only on a specific working day, by written agreement with the workers' representative, and since 2022 public holidays are paid holidays at every workplace with five or more workers. Enter the kind of day and the kind of agreement to see whether it stands and how much leave is left.
Korea's Shutdown Allowance Calculator - The Floor Is 70% of the Ordinary Wage, the Ceiling 100%
The statute says "70% of the average wage", but for a monthly-paid worker without bonuses it becomes 70% of the ordinary wage, because art. 2(2) lifts the average to it. Enter the shutdown date and three months' pay for the legal minimum; anything received comes off before the 70%.
Korea's Maternity Leave Benefit Calculator - Firm Size Changes Who Pays, Not What You Get
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.
Korea's Annual-Leave Use-Promotion Deadline Calculator - Ten Days from 1 July, Then 31 October
Whether the employer's notice fell inside the "10 days from six months before" window turns on a single date. Enter your hire date for the window and both deadlines; under one year of service there are two clocks.
What Unused Annual Leave Is Worth in Korea — Ordinary Wage and the 209 Hours
“Unused leave gets paid out” is half true. The statute's default is that it lapses and payment is the exception — and the number you divide by, 209, appears in no statute at all.
Leaving After Exactly One Year in Korea — When One Day Decides Fifteen
You counted on “a year worked, so fifteen days” and eleven arrived. It is not an error: finish exactly one year and the fifteen days never come into existence.
Korean Annual Leave Calculator — 11 Days at One Year, 26 One Day Later
Enter a hire date and a reference date and you get both the days accrued and what the unused ones are worth. The sharpest split is leaving after exactly one year: 11 days against 26, decided by a single day.
Korean Holiday Work Pay Calculator — Chuseok 2026, and Why Headcount Comes First
The 1.5x answer is right but incomplete. Table 1 of the Enforcement Decree omits article 56 from the Chapter 4 cell, so below five staff the premium is not 1.5x but zero.
Korea's Annual Paid Leave — 15 Days, a 25-Day Cap, and the Procedure That Cancels Your Payout
Knowing “one year, 15 days” gets you halfway. The statute sets the counting rule, the expiry condition, and the written procedure that lets a company owe you nothing — in three separate places.
Dismissal in Korea — Three Things “I Gave 30 Days' Notice” Does Not Settle
Just cause, written notice and 30 days' notice live in three different provisions. Only the written notice is tied to legal effect; the notice period can be settled with money.
Workplace Harassment in Korea — What the Law Punishes Hardest Is Not the Harassment
The scheme carries exactly one criminal penalty: disadvantaging someone for reporting. Everything else draws an administrative fine, and the definition requires all three of its pieces.