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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.

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.