The purpose of this Decree is to stipulate matters delegated by the Employment Insurance Act and particulars necessary for its enforcement.

"Money and valuables prescribed by Presidential Decree" in subparagraph 5 of Article 2 of the Employment Insurance Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Act") means non-taxable wage and salary income prescribed in subparagraph 3 of Article 12 of the Income Tax Act.

[This Article Newly Inserted on Dec. 31, 2010]

[Previous Article 1-2 Moved to Article 1-3 ]

(1) Those representing workers and employers referred to in Article 7 (4) 1 and 2 of the Act shall be commissioned by the Minister of Employment and Labor from among those recommended by each of nationwide organizations of workers and employers. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010 and Presidential Decree No. 22603, Dec. 31, 2010]
(2) Those representing the public interest referred to in Article 7 (4) 3 of the Act shall be commissioned by the Minister of Employment and Labor from among people with significant knowledge and experience in employment insurance and overall employment and labor. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]
(3) Those representing the government referred to in Article 7 (4) 4 of the Act shall be appointed by the Minister of Employment and Labor from among public officials belonging to the group of senior civil servants of a central administrative agency relating to employment insurance. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]
[This Article Newly Inserted by Presidential Decree No. 21348, Mar. 12, 2009]

(1) The term of office of a member commissioned under Article 7 (4) 1 through 3 of the Act shall be two years：Provided that the term of office of a substitute member who fills the vacancy of a member shall be the remaining term of office of the member he/she replaces.
(2) Where the member commissioned pursuant to Article 1-3 (1) and (2) falls under any of the following, the Minister of Employment and Labor may dismiss the relevant member:
1. Where he/she is unable to perform his/her duties due to mental disorder;
2. Where there is a misdeed relevant to his/her duties;
3. Where he/she is deemed inappropriate to be a member due to neglect of duties, injury to dignity, or other causes;
4. Where the member expresses his/her intention that it is difficult to perform his/her duties.
<This Article Newly Inserted by Presidential Decree No. 21348, Mar. 12, 2009>

(1) The chairperson of the Employment Insurance Committee (hereinafter referred to as “the Committee”) under Article 7 shall represent the Committee and generally manage the affairs of the Committee.
(2) If the chairperson is unable to perform his/her duties for inevitable reasons, a member designated by the chairperson in advance shall act on his/her behalf.
[This Article Newly Inserted by Presidential Decree No. 21348, Mar. 12, 2009]

(1) The chairperson shall convene and chair meetings of the Committee.
(2) A meeting of the Committee shall be held with attendance of a majority of all members and a decision shall be taken with approval of a majority of the members present.
[This Article Newly Inserted by Presidential Decree No. 21348, Mar. 12, 2009]

(1) The Committee shall have the expert committee on employment insurance operation and the expert committee on employment insurance assessment pursuant to Article 7 (5) of the Act.
(2) Each expert committee shall be composed of less than 15 members including a chairperson.
(3) The chairperson of the Committee shall appoint or commission the chairperson of each expert committee from among the members of the Committee, and appoint or commission the members of each expert committee from among people falling under any of the following subparagraphs：
1. People with academic knowledge and experience in social insurance, including employment insurance, and recommended by nationwide organizations of workers and employers；
2. People with plenty of academic knowledge and experience in social insurance, including employment insurance；and
3. Public officials of Grade III or IV from a central administrative agency relating to employment insurance
(4) The chairperson of each expert committee shall report to the Committee the results of examination and coordination in regard to the matters deliberated on by the expert committee pursuant to Article 7 (5) of the Act.
(5) The provisions of Articles 1-4 through 1-6 shall apply mutatis mutanids to each expert committee. In such cases, “Article 7 (4) 1 through 3 of the Act” shall be deemed “Article 1-7 (3) 1 and 2”; “the Minister of Employment and Labor” shall be deemed “the Chairperson of the Committee”; and “Article 1-3 (1) and (2)” shall be deemed “Article 1-7 (3) 1 and 2.”
[This Article Newly Inserted by Presidential Decree No. 21348, Mar. 12, 2009]

(1) In order to investigate and study technical matters concerning employment insurance, the Committee may have less than five survey or research members.
(2) The survey or research members shall be commissioned by the chairperson of the Committee from among those with plenty of knowledge and experience in employment insurance.
[This Article Newly Inserted by Presidential Decree No. 21348, Mar. 12, 2009]

The Committee or expert committees (hereinafter referred to as “Committee, etc.”), if it is deemed necessary for deliberating on their agenda items, may ask a related administrative agency or organization to submit materials, or a related person, such as public officials, experts, etc., to show up and give his/her opinions.
[This Article Newly Inserted by Presidential Decree No. 21348, Mar. 12, 2009]

The Committee, etc., shall each have one secretary appointed by the chairperson from among public officials of the Ministry of Employment and Labor. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]
[This Article Newly Inserted by Presidential Decree No. 21348, Mar. 12, 2009]

A member who attends a meeting of the Committee, etc., or submits his/her opinions after reviewing the meeting agenda may be paid allowances and travel expenses within the limits of available budgets：Provided that if the member is a public official directly related to the work he/she is responsible for, such allowances and travel expenses shall not be paid.
[This Article Newly Inserted by Presidential Decree No. 21348, Mar. 12, 2009]

Matters necessary for the operation of the Committee, etc., except those provided by this Decree, shall be determined by the chairperson of the Committee after decision by the Committee.
[This Article Newly Inserted by Presidential Decree No. 21348, Mar. 12, 2009]

(1) "Types of employing units prescribed by Presidential Decree" in the proviso to Article 8 of the Act means any of the following business:

1. An agricultural business, a forestry business, and a fishery business run by any person, other than a juristic person, with a regular workforce of not more than four employees;

2. Any of the following projects: Provided, That any project performed by any person who falls under the subparagraphs of Article 15 (2) of the Act shall be excluded herefrom:

(a) A project for which the total construction costs as defined by Article 2 (1) 2 of the Enforcement Decree of the Act on the Collection of Insurance Premiums, etc. for Employment Insurance and Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance (hereafter referred to as "total construction costs" in this Article) do not exceed 20 million won;

(b) A project for construction of a building with a total floor area of not more than 100 square meters or substantial repair of a building with a total floor area of not more than 200 square meters;

3. Employment activity of households and other unclassified self-consumption and self-production.

(2) The scope of business falling under any of the subparagraphs of paragraph (1) shall be as prescribed in the standard classification of industries as publicly notified by the Commissioner of the Statistics Korea pursuant to Article 22 of the Statistics Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Korean Standard Industrial Classification Table"), except as otherwise provided in the Act or this Decree.

(3) Where a construction project the total construction costs of which were estimated to be less than 20 million won becomes a project worth at least 20 million won because of a change in its plan or design (including cases where there is an actual change in its plan or design) or where a construction project becomes subject to the blanket application pursuant to Article 8 (1) or (2) of the Act on the Collection of Insurance Premiums, etc. for Employment Insurance and Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance (hereinafter referred to as the "Insurance Premium Collection Act"), all provisions of the Act shall become applicable to such project on the day when such event occurs.

(1) "Person whose contractual working hours are shorter than the minimum hours prescribed by Presidential Decree" in Article 10 (1) 2 of the Act means a person whose contractual monthly working hours are less than 60 hours (including a person whose contractual weekly working hours are less than 15 hours): Provided, That a person who works for at least three consecutive months and a daily hire employee defined in subparagraph 6 of Article 2 of the Act (hereinafter referred to as "daily hire employee") shall be excluded therefrom.

(2) "Other person prescribed by Presidential Decree" in Article 10 (1) 5 of the Act means an employee of a special post office under the Special Post Offices Act.

(1) The head of an administrative agency (hereinafter referred to as "competent agency") who appoints any public official in extraordinary civil service or in a fixed-term position (hereinafter referred to as "public official eligible for employment insurance") shall confirm without delay whether the public official seeks to be insured pursuant to the proviso to Article 10 (1) 3 of the Act when the public official is first appointed to the relevant competent agency.

(2) The head of a competent agency shall file an application for purchase of employment insurance with the Minister of Employment and Labor on behalf of a public official eligible for employment insurance after confirming whether the public official seeks to be insured pursuant to paragraph (1) within three months from the date of appointment: Provided, That the relevant public official may directly apply for purchase during the same period if such public official intends to do so; in such cases, the head of the competent employment security office shall notify the head of the competent agency of such application for purchase.

(3) Where any application for purchase is filed pursuant to paragraph (1) or (2), the public official eligible for employment insurance is deemed to have been insured on the day immediately following the date of application. In such cases, if the insured public official is appointed to another extraordinary civil service or fixed-term position following the change of his or her official status, the public official shall maintain his or her insured status, even if he or she has not applied for additional purchase, separately.

(4) Where an insured public official intends to withdraw from the employment insurance policy, the public official shall apply for withdrawal to the Minister of Employment and Labor. In such cases, the insured public official is deemed to lose his or her insured status on the day immediately following the date of application for withdrawal.

(5) Any person who continues to serve as a public official in an extraordinary service or in a fixed-term position shall not be reinsured and covered by employment insurance after withdrawal from employment insurance under paragraph (4): Provided, That where a public official who withdrew from insurance is reinsured pursuant to the Act and this Decree after the person has resigned from the position of a public official eligible for employment insurance (including cases where he or she has been appointed as a public official, other than a public official in extraordinary service or in a fixed-term position), if the qualifying days in covered employment is calculated under Article 40 (1) 1 of the Act, the number of days in covered employment for which remuneration is paid under Article 41 (1) of the Act, among the previous insured period in service as a public official eligible for employment insurance, shall be summed up, and if an insured period is calculated under Article 50 of the Act, the previous insured period prior to withdrawal shall be counted towards the insured period for calculation prescribed by the same Article.

(6) An insurance premium rate for a public official who has been insured shall be a premium rate of unemployment benefit prescribed in Article 12 (1) 2 of the Enforcement Decree Of The Act On The Collection Of Insurance Premiums, Etc. For Employment Insurance And Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance, and borne equally by the competent agency and the insured public official.

(7) Procedures for subscription to and withdrawal from insurance referred to in paragraphs (1) through (4) shall be prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor.

[This Article Newly Inserted on Sep. 18, 2008]

[Title Amended on Nov. 20, 2013]

(1) An employer may appoint his/her agent and have the agent implement the matters that he/she is required to implement pursuant to the Act and this Decree.
(2) When an employer appoints or dismisses his/her agent, he/she shall report this to the Minister of Employment and Labor under the conditions prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]
Article 11 (Surveys and Research relating to Insurance)
(1) The Minister of Employment and Labor may conduct surveys and research in order to study the labor market, occupations and vocational skills development and support insurance-related work. [Amended by Act No. 10339, Jun. 4, 2010]
(2) The Minister of Employment and Labor, if it is deemed necessary, may entrust part of the functions referred to in paragraph (1) to be carried out by a person prescribed in the Presidential Decree. [Amended by Act No. 10339, Jun. 4, 2010]

(1) The Minister of Employment and Labor shall systematically administer and operate the statistics related to employment insurance (hereinafter referred to as “employment insurance statistics”) that are obtained through surveys and research under Article 11 of the Act and the operation of employment insurance. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]
(2) The Minister of Employment and Labor may have personnel specializing in employment insurance statistics in order to systematically manage and operate employment insurance statistics. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]
(3) Necessary matters concerning qualifications, services and remunerations for the personnel specializing in employment insurance statistics shall be determined by the Minister of Employment and Labor. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]

(1) The Minister of Employment and Labor, pursuant to Article 11 (2) of the Act, may have insurance-related research institutes established pursuant to Article 8 of the Act on the Establishment, Operation and Fosterage of Government-Invested Research Institutions or the Korea Employment Information Service established pursuant to Article 18 of the Framework Act on Employment Policy carry out surveys and research programs to support labor market research and work related to employment insurance (hereinafter referred to as the “insurance”). [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 21928, Dec. 30, 2009, Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010 and Presidential Decree No. 24333, Jan. 25, 2013]
1. An insurance-related research institute established pursuant to Article 8 of the Act on the Establishment, Operation and Fostering of Government-Funded Research Institutions, etc；
2. The Korea Employment Information Service established pursuant to Article 18 of the Framework Act on Employment Policy；
3. Schools falling under Article 2 of the Higher Education Act (including their affiliated research institutions)；
4.　Private research institutions that can carry out survey and research on labor market, jobs, vocational skills development and insurance related tasks.
(2) Where the Minister of Employment and Labor has an agent execute affairs pursuant to paragraph (1), he/she may support the expenses required for the necessary survey, research, management and operation, etc., from the employment insurance fund (hereinafter referred to as the “fund”). [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]

(1) "Institutions prescribed by Presidential Decree" in Article 11-2 (2) of the Act means institutions designated by the Minister of Employment and Labor (hereafter referred to as "assessment institution" in this Article) from among those falling under each of the following:

1. Government-funded research institutes under the Act on the Establishment, Operation and Fostering of Government-Funded Research Institutes, Etc.;

2. Public institutions designated and publicly notified under Articles 4 through 6 of the Act on the Management of Public Institutions;

3. Schools falling under subparagraphs 1 through 6 of Article 2 of the Higher Education Act (including their affiliated research institutions);

4. Private research institutes.

(2) The Minister of Employment and Labor may subsidize the expenses incurred by assessment institutions in the performance of duties, within the budget.

(3) The assessment institutions may request proxy institutions or entrusted institutions prescribed in Articles 6 (1), 57 (1), and 145 (2) through (6) to submit data necessary to perform assessment.

(4) Necessary matters concerning specific work, designated period, etc. of an assessment institution shall be determined and publicly announced by the Minister of Employment and Labor.

[This Article Newly Inserted on Mar. 12, 2009]

(1) Each business owner or subcontractor who is obligated to file a report on matters concerning the acquisition or loss of insured status of an employee employed to engage in the business with the Minister of Employment and Labor pursuant to Article 15 of the Act shall file such report by no later than the fifteenth day of the month immediately following the month during which such event occurs (without delay, if the relevant employee demands that he or she file such report earlier than the above-stated deadline). In such cases, a report on the acquisition or loss of insured status shall be deemed to have been filed where the relevant business owner or subcontractor has filed, with the Minister of Employment and Labor, a report on confirmation of details of employment, including the number of days for which a daily hire employee employed during the pertinent month had provided service and the wages paid to such employee by no later than the fifteenth day of the month immediately following the month during which such event occurs.

(2) Each business owner who has filed a report on the commencement or termination of his or her business pursuant to Article 11 (3) of the Act On The Collection Of Insurance Premiums, Etc. For Employment Insurance And Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance shall file a report on the acquisition or loss of insured status with the Minister of Employment and Labor within the deadline prescribed in paragraph (1).

(3) Deleted.

(4) Deleted

In the event that a worker reports matters concerning the acquisition or loss, etc. of insured status pursuant to Article 15 (3) of the Act, he/she shall submit a document proving employment relationship such as his/her labor contract, etc.

If an employer transfers the insured from his/her one business to another, he/she shall report this to the Minister of Employment and Labor within 14 days of the transfer date. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]

(1) An employer shall, if the name or resident registration number of the insured is changed or corrected, report this to the Minister of Employment and Labor within 14 days of the change or correction date. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010 and Presidential Decree No. 23513, Jan. 13, 2012]
(2) An assistance agency or an entrusted institution pursuant to the latter part of Article 113-2 (1) of the Act, if recipients pursuant to the latter part of the same paragraph is changed to other recipients from recipients who are persons eligible for livelihood benefits under Article 8 (2) of the National Basic Living Security Act or changed to recipients who are persons eligible for assistances from other recipients, shall report to the Minister of Employment and Labor within 14 days from the changed date. [Newly Inserted by Presidential Decree No. 23513, Jan. 13, 2012]

(1) If he or she intends to confirm the acquisition or loss of his or her insured status pursuant to Article 17 (1) of the Act, any current or former insured employee shall request such confirmation from the Minister of Employment and Labor.

(2) The Minister of Employment and Labor shall, pursuant to Article 17 (3) of the Act, give notice of the results of such confirmation of the acquisition or loss of insured status to the person who has requested such confirmation and to the business owner or subcontractor who currently employs, or previously employed, the requesting person.

(1) Enterprises which meet the criteria set forth by the Presidential Decree under Article 19 (2) refer to those (hereinafter referred to as “preferentially supported enterprises”) for which the number of workers by industry falls under any of the following subparagraphs：[Amended by Presidential Decree No. 21348, Mar. 12, 2009 and Presidential Decree No. 24155, Oct. 29, 2012]
1. Deleted. [Presidential Decree No. 24155, Oct. 29, 2012]
2. Deleted. [Presidential Decree No. 24155, Oct. 29, 2012]
3. Deleted. [Presidential Decree No. 24155, Oct. 29, 2012]
4. Deleted. [Presidential Decree No. 24155, Oct. 29, 2012]
5. Deleted. [Presidential Decree No. 24155, Oct. 29, 2012]
(2) An enterprise which does not fall under any of the subparagraphs of paragraph (1) and which meets the standards referred to in Article 2 (1) and (3) of the Framework Act on Small and Medium Enterprises shall, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), be regarded as a preferentially supported enterprise. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 24155, Oct. 29, 2012]
(3) In cases where a preferentially supported enterprise under paragraph (1) no longer meets the criteria to be a preferentially supported enterprise due to reasons such as expansion of size, etc., it shall be deemed a preferentially supported enterprise for five years from the year following the year the reason occurs. [Newly Inserted by Presidential Decree No. 22603, Dec. 31, 2010 and Amended by Presidential Decree No. 24333, Jan. 25, 2013]
(4) Notwithstanding paragraphs (1) through (3), a company that belongs to the conglomerates designated as those subject to the restrictions on mutual investments pursuant to Article 31 (1) of the Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act shall not be construed as an enterprise eligible for preferential support for the insurance year immediately following the insurance year during which the designation was made, and thereafter.
(5) The standards for determining whether an enterprise is a preferentially supported enterprise under paragraph (1) of this Article are as follows：
1. The number of workers who are ordinarily employed shall be calculated by dividing the total number of workers in all the businesses operated by the employer as of the last day of every month of the previous year (daily workers are excluded in the construction industry), by the number of operating months of the previous year, however, in cases where a business manages collective housing under the Multi-Family Housing Management Act, the number of workers shall be calculated by each business, In this case, when calculating the number of workers who are ordinarily employed, part-time workers whose contractual working hours are 60 or more shall be calculated as 0.5 person, and part-time workers whose contractual working hours are less than 60 shall be excluded；and
2. When an employer operates businesses of two or more industries, the business with larger number of ordinarily employed workers shall be the standard, and if the number of workers is same the basis shall be applied in order of amount of total wage and gross sales.
(6) Notwithstanding paragraph (5), with regard to an employer whose insurance relationship was established during the insurance year, whether his/her business is a preferentially supported enterprise shall be determined on the basis of the starting date of the insurance relationship. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22603, Dec. 31, 2010]
[Implemented Jan. 1, 2013]

(1) The Minister of Employment and Labor may partially subsidize wages for any of the following business owners pursuant to Article 20 of the Act: Provided, That, in the case of subparagraph 1, he or she may reimburse employees whose working hours have been reduced for a portion of his or her lost wages and some of expenses required for installing facilities, and in the case of subparagraph 2, some of expenses for installing facilities:

1. Where the number of employees increases due to recruitment of unemployed persons by reducing working hours, restructuring work shifts, and providing periodic educational training or sabbatical leave, etc. (hereinafter referred to as "job sharing");

2. Where there is an increase in the number of employees due to the improvement of employment conditions by installing and operating the facilities determined by the Minister of Employment and Labor and recruiting unemployed persons;

3. Where unemployed persons are newly hired on an hourly basis without fixing the term of a labor contract by dividing duties, restructuring a labor system, or developing part-time duties, etc.;

4. Where an enterprise falling under the types of business with good prospects for growth, the types of business in which imbalance between labor supply and demand exists, or the types of business that require employment subsidies including enterprises that have moved operations back to the Republic of Korea and region-specific industries, following deliberations and decisions by the Committee, hires the unemployed;

5. Where an enterprise eligible for preferential support falling under the types of business deliberated and resolved by the Committee hires those with professional qualifications prescribed by the Minister of Employment and Labor (hereinafter referred to as "professional human resources");

6. Where a business owner hires an unemployed youth between 15 and 34 years of age through an introduction of a wage peak system under Article 28, a wage reduction system under Article 28-2,, or any other changes in its wage system;

7. Where the Minister of Employment and Labor newly hires an aged or middle-aged person pursuant to subparagraph 1 or 2 of Article 2 of the Act on Prohibition of Age Discrimination in Employment and Elderly Employment Promotion for a job deemed suitable for such aged or middle-aged person.

(2) In cases of providing subsidies pursuant to paragraph (1), the Minister of Employment and Labor shall determine necessary matters, such as conditions of assistance, scope of eligible business owners, level of assistance, period of assistance, method of application for and payment of subsidies, and other matters necessary for assistance.

[This Article Newly Inserted on Dec. 31, 2010]

[Paragraph (1) 6 of this Article shall be effective until December 31, 2018 pursuant to Article 2 of the Addenda to the Presidential Decree No. 26496 promulgated on August 19, 2015: Provided, That the amended provisions of Article 17 (1) 6 shall apply to subsidies for a business owner who hires unemployed youth through measures, such as the introduction of a wage peak system or other changes in a wage system, in accordance with the amended provisions of Article 17 (1) 6 by December 31, 2018, even after the effective period expires.]

(1) A business owner who takes measures for employment security of employees shall be eligible for subsidies and incentives under Article 21 (1) and (2) of the Act.

(2) A business owner eligible for the preferential support as prescribed in Article 21 (3) of the Act shall be any of the following business owners:

1. A business owner who engages in the type of business designated as one of the types of business for which assistance for employment adjustment, etc. is required pursuant to Article 29 (1) 1 of the Enforcement Decree of the Framework Act on Employment Policy (hereafter referred to as "designated type of business" in this Article);

2. A business owner who engages in manufacturing, repair, and other works under a contract with a business owner, as prescribed in subparagraph 1 for a project that falls under a designated type of business and at least 1/2 of whose sales are related to the designated type of business;

3. A business owner who engages in business within an area designated as an area for which assistance for employment adjustment is required pursuant to Article 29 (1) 2 or 3 of the Enforcement Decree of the Framework Act on Employment Policy (hereinafter referred to as "designated area").

(3) Where a business owner falling under any subparagraph of paragraph (2) takes measures for retaining employees, or grants assistance for change of occupation, the Minister of Employment and Labor may prescribe different requirements for and the amount of assistance applicable to such business owner, after deliberation by the Employment Policy Deliberative Council under the Framework Act on Employment Policy (hereinafter referred to as the "Employment Policy Council"), notwithstanding Articles 19, 20, 20-2, 21, 21-2 through 21-4, and 22.

(1) The Minister of Employment and Labor shall, pursuant to Article 21 (1) of the Act, grant subsidies to retain employees (hereinafter referred to as "subsidies for employee retention") to a business owner, where the business owner that finds it unavoidable to make adjustments in employment takes any of the following measures (hereinafter referred to as "measures for retaining employees") for insured employees recruited to engage in a task carried out by him or her (excluding daily hire employees, persons notified of dismissal in advance under Article 26 of the Labor Standards Act, and those scheduled to retire upon the business owner's recommendation due to worsening management conditions; hereafter the same shall apply in this Chapter) and where he or she does not sever the employment relationship with insured employees through employment adjustment during the period for which the measures for retaining employees are taken and one month thereafter:

1. Where the business owner reduces working hours in excess of 20/100 of the total working hours per calendar month of all insured employees by adjusting working hours, restructuring work shifts (referring to dividing employees into groups and having them work in shift; hereinafter the same shall apply), suspending business, or taking other measures, and pays money and valuables in order to compensate for lost wages due to reduced work hours. In such cases, necessary matters concerning the method of calculating the working hours, including the total working hours of all insured employees, etc., shall be prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor;

2. Deleted.

3. Where the business owner lays off employees for a period of at least one month;

4. Deleted.

5. Deleted;

(2) Where a business owner newly employs an employee while taking the measures for retaining employees, as prescribed in paragraph (1), or implements measures for retaining employees in the same month for three consecutive years notwithstanding paragraph (1), no subsidies for employee retention shall be paid for the relevant month, except in cases deemed unavoidable by the head of the competent employment security office.

(3) Deleted.

(1) A business owner who intends to receive subsidies for employee retention prescribed in Article 19 shall prepare plans for retaining employees for each calendar month in compliance with the following requirements, as prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor, and report it to the Minister of Employment and Labor by the day before the date of a scheduled implementation of such measures, and where he or she modifies matters prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor in the reported plan, such as the scheduled implementation date, the persons subject to such measures, and money and valuables to be paid while such measures are taken, he or she shall report such modifications to the Minister of Employment and Labor by the day before the scheduled modification date:

1. The business owner shall consult with the representative of employees recruited to engage in the business in preparing or modifying measures for retaining employees: Provided, That cases where detailed plans measures for retaining employees to be modified are not unfavorable to employees, such as reduction of period during which measures for retaining employees are taken or reduction in the number of people eligible to remain employed in order to restore employment conditions back to the level seen before business deterioration, shall be excluded herefrom;

2. The business owner shall prepare a document that describes the detailed implementation plans for retaining employees for the previous month (excluding the month to which the first date of implementation of the measures for retaining employees belongs) and related evidentiary documents.

(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), if any unavoidable cause or event prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor, such as delay in the process of labor-management consultation, exists, such report may be filed within three days from the date the measures for retaining employees are taken or the date of revision of such plan (within 20 days, where the business owner operating in an area declared as a special disaster area pursuant to Article 60 of the Framework Act on the Management of Disasters and Safety takes measures for retaining employees due to such special disaster).

(3) Deleted.

(4) Deleted.

(5) Deleted.

[Title Amended on Aug. 22, 2013]

The Minister of Employment and Labor may choose to not pay all or part of the employment retention subsidy for the month in which the relevant employer implements different employment retention measures than those reported or changed pursuant to Article 20 (1).
[This Article Newly Inserted by Presidential Decree No. 24514, Apr. 22, 2013]

(1) The amount of subsidies for employee retention shall be each of the following amounts: Provided, That when the Minister of Employment and Labor deems it necessary for employment security due to worsening unemployment, such as a rapid increase in the unemployment rate, the amount shall be equivalent to the rate determined and publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor of at least 3/4 and not more than 9/10 [2/3 for an enterprise other than those eligible for preferential support (hereinafter referred to as “large enterprise”)] of the money and valuables provided by the business owner to compensate for the lost wage of the insured employees for a period of up to one year prescribed and publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor:

1. Where the working hours reduced due to the adjustment of working hours, the restructuring of work shifts, suspension of business, layoff, etc. are less than 50/100 of working hours per calendar month: An amount equivalent to 2/3 (1/2 for a large enterprise) of the money and valuables provided by the business owner to compensate for the lost wages of the insured employees whose working hours are reduced or who are laid off;

2. Where the working hours reduced due to the adjustment of working hours, the restructuring of work shifts, suspension of business, layoff, etc. are at least 50/100 of working hours per calendar month: An amount equivalent to 2/3 of the money and valuables provided by the business owner to compensate for the lost wages of the insured employees whose working hours are reduced or who are laid off.

(2) Subsidies for retaining employees prescribed in paragraph (1) shall be granted for each measure taken to retain employees only until the number of days during which such measure is taken (the day on which two or more measures are taken simultaneously for retaining employees shall be counted as one day) reaches 180 days during the term of the pertinent insurance year.

(3) Deleted.

(4) Deleted.

(5) Subsidies for employee retention granted pursuant to paragraph (1) shall not exceed the amount determined and publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor per employee subject to each measure for retaining employees taken.

[Title Amended on Aug. 22, 2013]

“Certain level prescribed by Presidential Decree” in the latter part of Article 21 (1) of the Act refers to amounts under 50/100 of average wages (including cases where no wages are paid).
[This Article Newly Inserted by Presidential Decree No. 24514, Apr. 22, 2013]

(1) When a business owner suspends business or lays off employees (hereinafter referred to as "business suspension, etc.") instead of making employment adjustment in spite of unavoidable causes for making such adjustment prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor pursuant to the latter part of Article 21 (1) of the Act, if such suspension of business, etc. falls under any of the following, the Minister of Employment and Labor may grant subsidies to the relevant insured employee:

1. Where a business owner suspends business for at least 30 days for the number of the insured employees under classification made in each of the following circumstances and does not pay business suspension allowances after obtaining approval of the Labor Relations Commission pursuant to Article 46 (2) of the Labor Standards Act, or pays business suspension allowances equivalent to the amount less than 50/100 of the average wage:

(a) Where the total number of the insured employees is not more than 19: At least 50/100 of the total number of the insured employees;

(b) Where the total number of the insured employees is at least 20 and not more than 99: At least 10 insured employees;

(c) Where the total number of the insured employees is at least 100 and not more than 999: At least 10/100 of the total number of the insured employees;

(d) Where the total number of the insured employees is at least 1,000: At least 100 insured employees;

2. Where a business owner lays off the number of the insured employees as classified in the following circumstances for at least 90 days after implementing measures for retaining employees pursuant to Article 19 (1) 1 for at least three months within one year before the commencement of layoff, and does not pay money and valuables during that period by mutual consent with the representative of the employees (referring to the labor union if there exists a labor union consisting of more than a half of the total employees, and the one who represents more than a half of the total employees if such labor union does not exist):

(a) Where the total number of the insured employees is not more than 99: At least 10 insured employees;

(b) Where the total number of the insured employees is at least 100 and not more than 999: At least 10/100 of the total number of the insured employees;

(c) Where the total number of the insured employees is at least 1,000: At least 100 insured employees.

(2) The amount of the subsidies prescribed in paragraph (1) shall be determined by the Minister of Employment and Labor within the range of 50/100 of the average wage of the relevant insured employee, taking into account the wages or allowances paid by the business owner to the said insured employee. In such cases, the amount of subsidies shall not exceed the amount determined and publicly announced by the Minister of Employment and Labor per insured employee eligible for subsidies for such reasons as business suspension, etc.

(3) The subsidies prescribed in paragraph (2) shall be paid for maximum 180 days during the period of the relevant business suspension, etc.

(4) Where the Minister of Employment and Labor provides the insured employees with subsidies pursuant to paragraph (1), the business owner shall prepare a plan for retaining employees that includes necessary measures for the development and improvement of vocational skills of the recipient and submit the plan to the Minister of Employment and Labor.

(5) Where emergency measures are necessary for job security as disasters prescribed in subparagraph 1 of Article 3 of the Framework Act on the Management of Disasters and Safety took a heavy toll on the economy, resulting in soaring unemployment, subsidies may be paid to the insured employees who fail to meet the eligibility requirements for subsidies under paragragh (1) 2 until June 30, 2021 following deliberation by the Employment Policy Council with the requirements for and the level of subsidization determined by public notice. In such cases, a period of subsidization by public notice shall not exceed six months, and may be extended by up to six months where necessary.

(6) Necessary matters concerning the methods and procedures of applying for subsidies and the methods of payment of subsidies for insured employees following business suspension, etc., other than the matters prescribed in paragraphs (1) through (5), shall be determined and publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor.

[This Article Newly Inserted on Apr. 22, 2013]

Where a business owner facing an inevitable employment adjustment pursuant to Article 21 (1) of the Act directly establishes facilities necessary for supporting swift re-employment of any of the following persons, independently or collaboratively, or entrusts an outside institution equipped with such facilities with services necessary for such re-employment, the Minister of Employment and Labor shall, pursuant to Article 21 (1) of the Act, subsidize some of the expenses incurred by the business owner, as determined by the Minister of Employment and Labor:

1. Insured employees who have been employed by the relevant business but whose employment will be severed due to employment adjustment, retirement age, or expiration of the term of employment contract;

2. Persons who had been insured and employed by the relevant business but whose employment was severed due to employment adjustment, retirement age, or expiration of the term of employment contract.

[This Article Wholly Amended on Dec. 31, 2010]

(1) The Minister of Employment and Labor shall grant subsidies for promotion of local employment to a business owner who relocates his or her business to a designated area, establishes a new business or expands an existing business in a designated area as set forth in Article 22 of the Act and who meets all the following requirements:

1. During the period of support for employment adjustment, etc. (hereafter referred to as "designated period" in this Article) as publicly notified pursuant to Article 29 (3) of the Enforcement Decree of the Framework Act on Employment Policy, a local employment plan concerning relocation, establishment, or expansion of business, and employment of employees resulting therefrom shall be prepared and reported to the Minister of Employment and Labor;

2. The business owner shall implement the local employment plan reported to the Minister of Employment and Labor pursuant to subparagraph 1;

3. The operation of the business relocated, newly established, or expanded shall commence within one year and six months from the date the plan for local employment is submitted;

4. The business owner shall employ persons who have resided in the designated area or any other designated area for at least three months as of the date the operation of the business relocated, newly established, or expanded commences (hereafter referred to as "date of commencement of operation" in this Article) as the insured for the relevant business;

5. The business shall be deemed necessary by the Employment Policy Council

6. The business owner shall keep a record of the current status of implementation of the local employment plan and the current status of wages paid to the insured employees while implementing the plan.

(2) Upon the commencement of operation prescribed in paragraph (1) 3, a business owner who intends to receive subsidies for promotion of local employment shall report such fact to the Minister of Employment and Labor.

(3) The amount of subsidies for promotion of local employment shall be equivalent to 1/2 (or 1/3 for a large enterprise) of the wages paid to the insured employees employed under paragraph (1) 4, and shall not exceed the amount publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor as set forth in Article 21 (5).

(4) Subsidies for promotion of local employment shall be paid for up to one year from the date of commencement of operation.

(5) Where the number of insured employees employed pursuant to paragraph (1) 4 during a designated period exceeds 200 persons, subsidies for promotion of local employment shall be granted only for 30/100 out of the number of persons in excess thereof.

(6) No subsidies for promotion of local employment shall be paid under any of the following cases:

1. Where the employment period of the insured employees who are employed pursuant to paragraph (1) 4 is less than six months;

2. Where a business owner has severed the employment of his or her employees through employment adjustment during the period between three months before the date of commencement of operation and one year after the date of commencement of operation;

3. Where the business owner who has employed a job seeker as an insured employee as set forth in paragraph (1) 4 is found to be the same business owner as at the time the employment of the insured employee was most recently severed (limited to severance from employment within one year before the employment of the relevant insured employee; hereafter the same shall apply in subparagraph 4): Provided, That this shall exclude cases where the business owner has given priority to the relevant employee in employment pursuant to Article 25 (1) of the Labor Standards Act;

4. Where the business owner who has employed a job seeker as an insured employee under paragraph (1) 4 is related to the business in which the relevant employee had been engaged at the time his or her employment was most recently severed, such as cases where the business owner has merged his or her business with, or has acquired, that of the other business owner as at the time the employment of the relevant employee was most recently severed;

4-2. Where the business owner delayed payment of wages, etc. and his or her name is disclosed pursuant to Article 43-2 of the Labor Standards Act;

5. In any case prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor, including the case where a business owner pays wages below the minimum wage rate under the Minimum Wage Act.

(7) Deleted.

(8) Matters necessary for application for and payment of subsidies for promotion of local employment shall be prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor.

(1) The Minister of Employment and Labor shall, pursuant to Article 23 of the Act, grant subsidies for extension of employment of seniors to a business owner who runs business that meets any of the following requirements: Provided, That this shall not apply to any business owner who has a regular workforce of at least 300 employees:

1. Deleted.

2. The retirement age shall be abolished or the existing retirement age shall be increased by one year or more to at least 60: Provided, That where the retirement age at the relevant place of business is abolished and a new retirement age is established or the previous retirement age is lowered within three years before the abolishment or extension of the retirement age, subsidies for extension of employment of the elderly shall not be granted;

3. The business owner who set the retirement age at 55 shall continue to retain a person who has reached the retirement age after at least 18 months of employment or shall employ (hereafter referred to as "re-employment" in this Article and Articles 28 and 28-4) such person within three months after he or she has retired at the retirement age and shall not sever the employment of any employee through employment adjustment during three months before such re-employment and six months after such re-employment: Provided, That a business owner shall not be eligible for the subsidies for extension of employment of seniors where the business owner re-employs such person for a period of less than one year or lowers the retirement age of the place of business within three years before the re-employment.

(2) Deleted.

(3) Deleted.

(4) The amount of subsidies for extended employment of seniors for which a business owner who meets the requirements prescribed in paragraph (1) 2 is eligible shall be calculated by multiplying the amount publicly notified each year by the Minister of Employment and Labor, considering the wage increase rate, labor market conditions, and other factors, by the number of employees (excluding persons to whom subsidies for the wage peak system under Article 28 are paid) who have been employed by the business owner continuously for at least 18 months and who is allowed to continue his or her services due to the abolishment or extension of the retirement age after he or she reaches the retirement age that was previously set, and such subsidies shall be granted for the period classified under each of the following subparagraphs:

1. Where the retirement age is abolished: One year from the day (referring to the day when the age of 58 is reached if the previous retirement age is lower than the age of 58) immediately following the date when one year has passed from the date when the previous retirement age of an employee, whose retirement age is abolished, is reached;

2. Where the retirement age is extended: The period prescribed in each of the following calculated from the day immediately following the date when the previous retirement age of an employee, whose retirement age is extended, is reached:

(a) Where the retirement age is extended by at least one year but not more than three years: One year;

(b) Where the retirement age is extended by at least three years: Two years.

(5) The amount of subsidies for extended employment of seniors for which a business owner who meets the requirements under paragraph (1) 3 is eligible shall be calculated by multiplying the amount publicly notified each year by the Minister of Employment and Labor, considering the wage increase rate, labor market conditions, and other factors, by the number of employees (excluding persons to whom subsidies for the wage peak system under Article 28 are paid) re-employed after each of such persons reaches the retirement age, and such subsidies shall be granted for the periods classified as prescribed in each of the following subparagraphs:

1. Where the re-employment period is at least one year but not more than three years: Six months;

2. Where the re-employment period is at least three years: One year.

(6) Matters necessary to apply for and pay the subsidies for extended employment of seniors shall be prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor.

[Title Amended on Jul. 31, 2010]

[This Article shall be effective until December 31, 2016 pursuant to Article 2 (1) of the Addenda to the Presidential Decree No. 25022 promulgated on December 24, 2013: Provided, That the amended provisions of Article 25 shall apply to subsidies to be granted to a business owner who becomes eligible for the subsidies for extended employment of seniors by December 31, 2016, even after the effective period expires.]

(1) The Minister of Employment and Labor shall, pursuant to Article 23 of the Act, grant subsidies for employment of seniors aged at least 60 years to the owner of business that meets all of the following requirements:

1. That the relevant place of business does not impose a retirement age;

2. That the ratio of the monthly average number of employees aged at least 60 years who have been employed for at least one year as of the last day of each month to the monthly average number of employees employed for the corresponding business on a quarterly basis shall not be less than the ratio determined and publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor for each business type;

3. That the business owner receives subsidies for the promotion of employment of seniors under Article 18 of the Addenda to the Enforcement Decree of the Employment Insurance Act (Presidential Decree No. 22603) at least once as of the date of application for subsidies for the employment of seniors aged at least 60 years, and he or she shall not be subject to the period when the payment of the aforementioned subsidies is restricted.

(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), where a business owner falls under any of the following, the subsidies for the employment of seniors aged at least 60 years (hereinafter referred to as "subsidies for employment of seniors aged at least 60 years") shall not be paid:

1. Where a business owner severs the employment relationship with employees aged at least 55 years for employment adjustments during the period between three months before applying for subsidies for employment of seniors aged at least 60 years and six months thereafter;

2. Where the name of a business owner is listed and announced pursuant to Article 43-2 of the Labor Standards Act because the business owner delayed in paying wages, etc.

(3) The amount of subsidies for the employment of seniors aged at least 60 years shall be calculated by multiplying the amount publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor in consideration of labor market conditions by the number of seniors aged at least 60 years or older who have been employed in excess of the ratio publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor pursuant to paragraph (1) 2: Provided, That the total amount of subsidies which a business owner is eligible to receive on a quarterly basis shall not exceed the amount calculated by multiplying the amount publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor pursuant to the main sentence by the number equivalent to 20/100 (10/100 for a large enterprise) of the number of persons employed by the relevant business.

(4) When calculating the number of employees to provide subsidies for employment of seniors aged at least 60 years, any of the following persons shall be excluded herefrom:

1. Daily hire employees;

2. Persons who fall under Article 10 (1) 2 through 5 of the Act and foreign workers who do not fall under Article 10-2 of the Act;

3. Employees aged at least 60 years who are eligible for subsidies for employee retention pursuant to Article 29 of the Framework Act on Employment Policy.

(5) Necessary matters for an application for and provision of subsidies for employment of seniors aged at least 60 years shall be prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor.

[This Article Newly Inserted on Jan. 13, 2012]

[The amended provisions of this Article shall be effective until December 31, 2020 pursuant to Article 2 (2) of the Addenda to the Presidential Decree No. 23513 promulgated on January 13, 2012.]

(1) The Minister of Employment and Labor shall grant incentives for promotion of employment to a business owner who hires any of the following unemployed persons, as an insured employee if the person has registered himself/herself as a job seeker with employment security offices or any of the institutions specified by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor, pursuant to Article 23 of the Act, to promote employment of persons with disabilities, female heads of household, etc. who have particular difficulty finding jobs under ordinary labor market conditions (hereafter referred to as "employment security office" in this Article):

1. A person who has completed the employment assistance program, as notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor, designed for those having particular difficulty finding jobs under ordinary labor market conditions;

2. A person with severe disability prescribed in subparagraph 2 of Article 2 of the Act on the Employment Promotion and Vocational Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities who is in a state of unemployment for at least one month;

3. A person in a state of unemployment for at least one month who, as a person prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor, among unemployed women responsible for supporting their family members, is eligible for employment assistance prescribed in the former part of Article 11 (2) of Enforcement Decree of the National Basic Living Security Act or entitled to protection prescribed in Articles 5 and 5-2 of the Single-Parent Family Support Act;

4. A person in a state of unemployment for at least one month who has difficulty participating in the employment assistance program prescribed in subparagraph 1 because the person resides in an island (excluding the main island of Jeju Special Self-Governing Province and islands connected to land by breakwaters or bridges, etc.);

5. A person recognized by the Minister of Employment and Labor as needing measures for promotion of employment due to worsening employment conditions and soaring unemployment, among the unemployed who fail to meet the requirements prescribed in subparagraphs 1 through 4.

(2) The incentives for promotion of employment prescribed in paragraph (1) (hereinafter referred to as “incentives for employment promotion”) shall be paid where a business owner employs a person as an insured employee for at least six months, according to the following classifications:

1. Where the employment period is at least six months but less than 12 months: Amount equivalent to six months;

2. Where the employment period is at least 12 months: Amount equivalent to 12 months: Provided, That where the employment period of an insured employee determined and publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor is at least 18 months, the following relevant amounts shall be paid:

(a) Where the employment period is at least 18 months but less than 24 months: Amount equivalent to 18 months;

(b) Where the employment period is at least 24 months: Amount equivalent to 24 months.

(3) The incentives for employment promotion shall not be paid in any of the following cases:

1. Where a short-term contract employee is employed in cases prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor;

2. Deleted;

3. Where a large enterprise employs an unemployed person aged 29 years or younger who is prescribed by the Minister of Employment and Labor;

4. Where a business owner severs the employment relationship with an employee (excluding employees employed after a person eligible for incentives for employment promotion is employed) for employment adjustment during the period between three months before employing a person eligible for the incentives for employment promotion and one year from the employment of the relevant person (in cases where a person eligible for incentives for employment promotion is employed for less than one year, referring to the period until the termination of the relevant employment relationship);

5. Where a business owner who employs a person eligible for the incentives for employment promotion is found to be the same business owner as at the time the employment relationship of the relevant employee was severed (limited to cases where the employment relationship was severed within one year before the relevant business owner employs the relevant employee; hereafter the same shall apply in subparagraph 6): Provided, That this shall not apply in any of the following cases:

(a) Where a business owner gives the relevant employee priority in employment pursuant to Article 25 (1) of the Labor Standards Act;

(b) Where a business owner re-employs an employee whom he or she employed as a daily hire employee by entering into a contract without a fixed term of employment;

6. Where a business owner who employs a person eligible for incentives for employment promotion has a business relationship with the business from which the employment relationship of the relevant employee is severed, such as merger or acquisition, and is prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor;

7. Where the name of a business owner is listed and announced pursuant to Article 43-2 of the Labor Standard Act because the business owner delayed the payment of wages, etc.;

8. Where a business owner who fails to fulfill the obligation to employ persons with disabilities pursuant to Article 28 of the Act on the Employment Promotion and Vocational Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities newly employs persons with disabilities under subparagraph 1 of Article 2 of the same Act (excluding persons with severe disabilities under subparagraph 2 of the same Article) before such obligation is performed.

(4) The amount of incentives for employment promotion shall be calculated by multiplying the amount publicly notified each year by the Minister of Employment and Labor, considering the wage increase rate, labor market conditions, and other factors, by the number of insured employees; and shall not exceed 80/100 of the wages borne by the business owner during the period of payment of such incentives.

(5) The number of insured employees eligible for incentives for employment promotion shall not exceed 30/100 (the decimal point shall be dropped in calculation) of the number of insured employees of the relevant business as of the last day of the immediately preceding insurance year.

(6) Notwithstanding paragraph (5), the number of insured employees eligible for incentives for employment promotion shall not exceed the number of insured employees classified as follows in any of the following cases:

1. Where the number of the newly employed, insured employees pursuant to paragraph (1) is at least 30: 30 persons;

2. Where the number of the insured employees as of the end of the immediately preceding insurance year for the pertinent business is at least one but less than ten: Three persons;

3. Where no insured employee exists as of the end of the immediately preceding insurance year for the pertinent business: 30/100 of the number of insured employees as of the date the insurance relation is established for the year in which an employee is newly hired (three persons where the number of insured employees is at least one but less than ten; and 30 persons where 30/100 of the number of insured employees exceeds 30 persons).

(7) Necessary matters for an application for and payment of incentives for employment promotion shall be prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor.

(8) Where emergency measures are necessary for job security as disasters prescribed in subparagraph 1 of Article 3 of the Framework Act on the Management of Disasters and Safety took a heavy toll on the economy, resulting in soaring unemployment, the Minister of Employment and Labor may determine a period of employment of up to one year, grounds for exclusion from payment of incentives for employment promotion, the maximum amount of incentives, and the limit on the number of eligible insured employees differently by public notice following deliberation by the Employment Policy Council to expand support for business owners under paragraph (1), notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs (2) through (7) (in cases falling under paragraph (3), limited to the main sentence of subparagraphs 1, 4, and 4, with the exception of its items, and subparagraph 6).

[This Article Wholly Amended on Dec. 31, 2010]

[Title Amended on Jul. 30, 2016]

(1) The Minister of Employment and Labor shall grant subsidies for the wage peak system to employees to whom the wage peak system shall apply in any of the following cases, as prescribed in Article 23 of the Act, (hereafter referred to as "wage peak system" in this Article): Provided, That in cases falling under subparagraph 2, he or she shall grant subsidies for the wage peak system to both the employees and the business owner:

1. Where a business owner implements a system under which an employee has his or her wage reduced based on his or her age, period of continuous employment or wage after he or she reaches the age of 55, with the consent of the representative of employees, in return for extension of the retirement age to at least 60 or to at least 56 but not more than 60;

2. Where a business owner reduces working hours while implementing the system prescribed in subparagraph 1 or re-employment within three months of retirement (hereinafter referred to as "re-employment" in this Article and Article 28-4) pursuant to subparagraph 4, and thereby reducing the contractual weekly working hours to at least 15 hours but not more than 30 hours;

3. Deleted.

4. Where a business owner who set the retirement age at 55 or older decides to re-employ (excluding cases where the period of the re-employment is less than one year) a person, who has reached retirement age, and to reduce his or her wage compared to the amount he or she received before the previous retirement.

(2) The subsidies for the wage peak system determined under paragraph (1) shall be paid to persons who have been employed continuously for at least 18 months by the relevant business owner and that sees his or her peak wage compared to his or her wage for the pertinent year (referring to the wage of the year that immediately precedes the year when the date of the first reduction of wage following implementation of the wage peak system belongs; hereafter the same shall apply in this Article) reduced by at least the ratio classified as prescribed in each of the following (excluding the person whose wage for the pertinent year reaches or exceeds the amount publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor):

1. In the case of paragraph (1) 1: The ratio classified according to the extended retirement age as follows: Provided, That it shall be 10/100 for any business that has a regular workforce of less than 300 employees:

(a) Up to one year from the date of application of the wage peak system: 10/100;

(b) For a period of up to two years but no shorter than one year from the date of application of the wage peak system: 15/100;

(c) For a period exceeding two years after the date of application of the wage peak system: 20/100;

2. In the case of paragraph (1) 2: 30/100;

3. In the case of paragraph (1) 4: 20/100: Provided, That it shall be 10/100 for any business that has a regular workforce of less than 300 employees.

(3) Subsidies for the wage peak system prescribed in paragraph (1) shall be an amount publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor, considering the difference between the peak wage and the pertinent year’s wage of the pertinent individual employee, the wage increase rate, an increase in the labor cost of the business owner due to the reduction of contractual working hours prescribed in paragraph (1) 2, etc.

(4) Subsidies for the wage peak system prescribed in paragraph (1) shall be paid for five years from the date the wage peak system enters into force: Provided, That when the employment period is less than five years, the subsidies shall be paid for the employment period, and when re-employment is made pursuant to paragraph (1) 4 after the enforcement of the wage peak system prescribed in paragraph (1) 1, the maximum period of payment shall be five years in total.

(5) Matters necessary to calculate, to apply for and to pay the subsidies for the wage peak system prescribed in paragraph (1) shall be prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor.

[Title Amended on Jul. 31, 2010]

[Pursuant to Article 2 (2) of the Addenda to the Presidential Decree No. 25022 promulgated on December 24, 2013, this Article shall be effective in accordance with the following classifications: Provided, That the amended provisions of Article 28 shall apply to subsidies to be granted to an employee who becomes eligible for the subsidies for the wage peak system by the relevant date referred to in subparagraph 1 or 2, even after the effective period expires: 1. Any business or place of business that has a regular workforce of at least 300 employees, any public institution prescribed in Article 4 of the Act on the Management of Public Institutions, any local government-invested public corporation prescribed in Article 49 of the Local Public Enterprises Act, and any local public corporation prescribed in Article 76 of the same Act: Dec. 31, 2015; and 2. Any business or place of business that has a regular workforce of less than 300 employees, the State, or any local government: Dec. 31, 2016.]

(1) Where a business or place of business which has set the retirement age at 60 or more implements the system of reducing wages after the age of 55, the Minister of Employment and Labor shall, pursuant to Article 23 of the Act, grant subsidies beginning with the date the system of reducing the wages of the relevant employees who saw their wages reduced enters into effect and ending on December 31, 2018: Provided, That where the employment period of the relevant employees ends before December 31, 2018, the subsidies shall be paid during the relevant employment period.

(2) The subsidies determined under paragraph (1) shall be paid to persons who have been employed continuously for at least 18 months by the relevant business owner and gotten their peak wages (referring to the wages of the year that immediately precedes the year when the date of the first reduction of wages following implementation of the system pursuant to paragraph (1) belongs; hereafter the same shall apply in this Article) reduced by at least 10 percent compared to their wages for the pertinent year (excluding persons whose wages for the pertinent year reach or exceed the amount publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor).

(3) The amount of subsidies prescribed in paragraph (1) shall be determined and publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor according to the standards prescribed by Ordinance of Minister of Employment and Labor in consideration of the difference between the peak wage and the pertinent year’s wage of the pertinent individual employee, the wage increase rate, etc.

(4) Matters necessary to apply for and to pay the subsidies etc. referred to in paragraph (1) shall be prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor.

[This Article Newly Inserted on Dec. 4, 2015]

Deleted.

(1) The Minister of Employment and Labor shall pay incentives for employment security during the period of childbirth and child care to any of the following business owners, pursuant to Article 23 of the Act: Provided, That such incentives shall not be paid to a business owner whose name is disclosed pursuant to Article 43-2 of the Labor Standards Act due to a delay in payment of wages, etc.:

1. Deleted.

2. A business owner who grants an insured employee a child care leave prescribed in Article 19 of the Equal Employment Opportunity and Work-Family Balance Assistance Act or shortens the working hours of an insured employee prescribed in Article 19-2 of the same Act (hereinafter referred to as "child care leave, etc.") for at least 30 days [excluding the period overlapping with the period of a maternity leave prescribed in Article 74 (1) of the Labor Standards Act (hereinafter referred to as "maternity leave")];

3. A business owner meeting all of the following requirements, who grants or allows an insured employee a maternity leave, a miscarriage or stillbirth leave prescribed in Article 74 (3) of the Labor Standards Act (hereinafter referred to as "miscarriage or stillbirth leave") or a child care leave, etc. for at least 30 days and employs a substitute employee:

(a) Any of the following cleaning products:

(i) The business owner shall continuously employ a new substitute employee for at least 30 days from the 60th day before the beginning of a maternity leave, a miscarriage or stillbirth leave, a child care leave, etc. (or the 60th day before the beginning of a maternity leave if a miscarriage or stillbirth leave, a child care leave, etc. begins consecutively after the maternity leave);

(ii) The business owner who allows an insured employee to work reduced hours during her pregnancy for more than 60 days and employs a substitute employee and who continuously employs the substitute employee after the employee in question finishes working reduced working hours and takes maternity leave, miscarriage or stillbirth leave, or child care leave, etc. In such cases, the period of employment of substitute employees shall be at least 30 days.

(b) Deleted;

(c) The business owner shall not sever the employment relationship with any employee (excluding employees employed after substitute employees are newly employed) for employment adjustment during the period from three months before employing a new employee as a substitute to one year thereafter (where the employment period of the relevant substitute employee is less than one year, referring to the period until the termination of the relevant employment relationship).

(2) Deleted.

(3) Incentives for employment security during the period of childbirth and child care prescribed in paragraph (1) 2 shall be calculated by multiplying the amount publicly notified each year by the Minister of Employment and Labor based on the size of business, considering the business owner’s burden of labor costs due to child care leaves, etc. (excluding the period of child care leave of employees in institutions referred to in subparagraph 1 (a) through (c) of Article 2 of the Act on the Prevention of Corruption and the Establishment and Management of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission and public institutions designated and publicly notified pursuant to Articles 4 through 6 of the Act on the Management of Public Institutions; hereafter the same shall apply in this Article) by the number of months of the child care leave, etc. the relevant employee has taken.

(4) Incentives for employment security during the period of childbirth and child care prescribed in paragraph (1) 3 (hereinafter referred to as “subsidies for substitute employees”; hereafter the same shall apply in this Article) shall be calculated by multiplying the amount publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor based on the size of business, considering the business owner’s burden of labor costs due to employment of substitute employees, by the number of months for which a substitute employee has been employed during the period for which the relevant employee has taken a maternity leave, a miscarriage or stillbirth leave, or a child care leave, etc. (including the two-month period for transfer of duties before taking a maternity leave, a miscarriage or stillbirth leave, or a child care leave, etc.), but where the State or a local government has paid subsidies or incentives, etc. to business owners for the employment of the relevant substitute employees under this Decree or other statutes, the relevant subsidies or incentives shall be excluded from the subsidies for substitute employees. In such cases, the subsidies for substitute employees shall not exceed the amount of wage paid by business owners to the relevant substitute employees.

(5) The incentives for employment security during the period of childbirth and child care referred to in paragraph (1) shall be provided according to the following classification:

1. In cases falling under paragraph (1) 2: The amount equivalent to 50/100 of the incentives for employment security during the period of childbirth and child care under paragraph (3) shall be paid after the business owner satisfies the requirements referred to in paragraph (1) 2, and the remaining amount shall be aggregated and paid in lump sum after the relevant business owner continues to hire the employee who took maternity leave for at least six months after lapse of the prescribed period;

2. In cases falling under paragraph 1 (3): The amounts classified as follow shall be paid where the business owner satisfies the requirements referred to in paragraph (1) 3 and the remaining amount shall be aggregated and paid in lump sum where the relevant business owner continues to hire the employee who took a maternity leave, a miscarriage or stillbirth leave, or a child care leave for at least one month (including cases where the business owner is unable to hire the employee for at least one month for his or her personal reasons) after lapse of the prescribed period:

(i) Period for transfer of duties: 100/100 of the subsidies for substitute employees under paragraph (4);

(ii) Period of maternity leave, a miscarriage or stillbirth leave, or a child care leave, etc.: 50/100 of the subsidies for substitute employees under paragraph (4).

(5) Matters necessary for an application for and payment of incentives for employment security during the period of childbirth and child care prescribed in paragraph (1) shall be prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor.

[This Article Wholly Amended on Dec. 31, 2010]

[Title Amended on Jul. 30, 2016]

(1) The Minister of Employment and Labor shall pay a subsidy for managing employment insurance for construction workers to employers who meet all of the following conditions in accordance with Article 24 of the Act. Provided that, employers whose reports are intentionally or negligently different from the facts, pursuant to Article 15 (1) of the Act, may not be paid the subsidy for managing employment insurance for construction workers for the month in which reports differed from the facts. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 20775, Apr. 30, 2008；Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010 and Presidential Decree No. 22603, Dec. 31, 2010]
1. He/she shall be an employer provided for in subparagraph 1 of Article 2 of the Act on the Employment Improvement, etc. of Construction Workers；
2. He/she shall designate a person in charge of employment management provided for in Article 5 of the Act on the Employment Improvement, etc. of Construction Workers；and
3. The person in charge of employment management under subparagraph 2 shall deal with insurance work, including making a report by electronic means to confirm the content of labor service pursuant to Article 15 (5) of the Act within the period set under Article 7 (1), for daily workers whose number is in excess of the number determined and announced by the Minister of Employment and Labor.
(2) The amount of the subsidy for managing employment insurance for construction workers under paragraph (1) shall be an amount announced by the Minister of Employment and Labor every year according to the scale of the administration of the insured, such as a report of the aquisition or loss, etc. of the insured status of daily workers and the subsidy shall be paid semiannually. In this case, if the employer makes a report confirming employment details pursuant to the latter part of Article 7 (1) using the construction worker employment insurance card prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor, the level of subsidy for managing employment insurance for construction workers may be set higher in consideration of the costs of purchasing equipment, such as construction worker employment insurance card readers, etc., a past record of making a report confirming employment details using the construction worker employment insurance card, etc. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010 and Presidential Decree No. 22603, Dec. 31, 2010]
(3) Necessary matters concerning the application for and payment of the subsidy for managing employment insurance for construction workers shall be prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]
[This Article shall remain effective until Dec. 31, 2013 under the provisions of Article 2 of the Addenda of Presidential Decree No. 22603, Dec. 31, 2010]

(1) The Minister of Employment and Labor may, pursuant to Article 25 (1) 1 of the Act, provide a business owner or a labor-management organization that undergoes an examination by a specialized institution in relation to changes in its wage system or re-designing of duties in order to stabilize and promote the employment of persons currently or previously insured, and other persons who are willing to have a job (hereinafter referred to as "insured employee") with subsidies to cover all or some of the expenses incurred in such examination within the budget.

(2) Matters concerning the selection of persons eligible for subsidization prescribed in paragraph (1) and the standards of the subsidies, and other matters necessary for the subsidization shall be prescribed by the Minister of Employment and Labor.

"Other programs prescribed by Presidential Decree" in Article 25 (1) 3 of the Act means the following programs:

1. Programs for education and public relations on employment security and employment promotion of insured employees, etc.;

2. Programs for supporting employment, including job placement, employment and career advice, support for hiring insured employees, etc. and support for the long-term employment of insured employees, etc., and programs for supporting career changes in order to secure the employment security of insured employees, etc. and promote employment thereof;

3. Programs for improving the employment conditions of insured employees, etc., who are seniors, women, or the disabled;

4. Programs for supporting the employment security, etc. of construction workers, etc.;

5. Programs for supporting the employment security, etc. of any of the following persons:

(a) Fixed-term employees prescribed in subparagraph 1 of Article 2 of the Act on the Protection, etc. of Fixed-Term and Part-Time Employees (hereinafter referred to as “fixed-term employee”);

(b) Temporary agency workers defined in subparagraph 5 of Article 2 of the Act on the Protection of Temporary Agency Workers;

(c) Safety officers prescribed in Article 17 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act;

(d) Health officers prescribed in Article 18 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act;

(e) Part-time employees prescribed in Article 2 (1) 9 of the Labor Standards Act;

(f) Persons who offer their labor similarly to employees referred to in Article 2 (1) 1 of the Labor Standards Act, regardless of the form of their contracts, but to whom the Labor Standards Act, etc. does not apply, and who do not use any other person for another person's business and directly provide labor necessary for the operation of business, and who live on the money they receive in return for the provision of their labor;

6. Programs for supporting the conversion into part-time employment prescribed in Article 2 (1) 9 of the Labor Standards Act;

7. Work-family balance assistance programs through the improvement of employment conditions such as changing work patterns of insured employees, etc.;

8. Credit business for expenses required of business owners to compensate for wages of insured employees under measures for retaining employees (limited to the period determined and publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor).

(1) The Minister of Employment and Labor may, pursuant to Article 25 of the Act, partially assist within the budget the persons who intends to conduct programs for education and programs for public relations under subparagraph 1 of Article 35 with expenses necessary for conducting such programs.
(2) The Minister of Employment and Labor shall, if intending to give assistance pursuant to paragraph (1), publish in advance the kinds and contents of programs eligible for assistance, the content and extent of assistance, methods for application for assistance, and other related matters.
<This Article Newly Inserted by Presidential Decree No. 28160, Jun. 27, 2017>

(1) The Minister of Employment and Labor may support costs required for the employment support projects conducted by a person described in any of the following subparagraphs pursuant to Article 25 of the Act and subparagraph 2 of Article 35 of this Decree：[Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]
1. A person who engages in non-fee-charging job placement services under Article 18 of the Employment Security Act and a person who engages in fee charging job placement services under Article 19 of the same Act；
2. A person who engages in services providing job information under Article 23 of the Employment Security Act；and
3. Other persons recognized by the Minister of Employment and Labor as being capable of conducting employment support projects.
(2) The Minister of Employment and Labor shall, if intending to provide support pursuant to paragraph (1), publish beforehand the types and contents of eligible services, the scope of eligible insured people, etc., the contents and level of the support, the method of applying for the support, etc. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 21348, Mar. 12, 2009 and Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]

(1) The Minister of Employment and Labor may, if an employer intends to install or improve related facilities and equipment to ensure employment security and promote employment for the insured, etc., who are the aged, women or the disabled, provide support or loans within the limits of the budget to cover part of the necessary costs pursuant to Article 25 of the Act and Article subparagraph 3 of Article 35 of this Decree. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]
(2) Matters concerning the selection of those eligible for the support or loans under paragraph (1), the conditions for the selection and other necessary matters concerning the support and loans shall be determined by the Minister of Employment and Labor. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]

(1) The Minister of Employment and Labor may, pursuant to Article 25 of the Act, grant subsidies to cover part of necessary expenses to a business owner who intends to carry out programs specified in subparagraphs 2 and 5 through 7 of Article 35, within the budget.
(2) The selection of persons eligible for subsidies under paragraph (1) and the requirements therefor, and other matters necessary for subsidies, shall be prescribed by the Minister of Employment and Labor.
<This Article Newly Inserted by Presidential Decree No. 25955, Dec. 31, 2014>

(1) The Minister of Employment and Labor may lend money to the business owners of enterprises eligible for preferential support taking measures for retaining employees under Article 25 of the Act and subparagraph 8 of Article 35 of this Decree to cover expenses to compensate for wages of insured employees within the budget.

(2) The Minister of Employment and Labor shall decide whether to lend money after undergoing procedures for verifying whether the loan seekers under paragraph (1) are eligible for loans.

(3) Other than matters prescribed in paragraphs (1) and (2), details necessary for operating loan programs such as revocation of a decision to make loans and repayment of loan amounts shall be prescribed and publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor.

[This Article Newly Inserted on Jun. 9, 2020]

(1) "Other facilities for promotion of employment prescribed by Presidential Decree" referred to in Article 26 of the Act means the following facilities:

1. Necessary facilities installed and operated by a local government to promote the employment of underprivileged groups in the job market pursuant to Article 11 (4) of the Framework Act on Employment Policy;

2. Facilities operated for supporting employment by schools designated by the Minister of Employment and Labor among schools prescribed in subparagraphs 1, 2, and 4 of Article 2 of the Higher Education Act;

3. Schools designated by the Minister of Employment and Labor from among special-purpose high schools and specialized high schools prescribed in Articles 90 and 91 of the Enforcement Decree of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act;

4. Talent banks of the aged prescribed in Article 11 of the Act on Prohibition of Age Discrimination in Employment and Elderly Employment Promotion;

5. Other facilities designed to stabilize and promote the employment of insured employees, etc. and to secure human resources for business owners, as prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor.

(2) The Minister of Employment and Labor may, pursuant to Article 26 of the Act, grant subsidies to cover expenses incurred in installing and operating a facility for the promotion of employment by a person who installs and operates such facility.

(3) Matters necessary for subsidization of facilities for promotion of employment referred to in paragraph (1) shall be prescribed by the Minister of Employment and Labor.

(4) The Minister of Employment and Labor may, pursuant to Article 26 of the Act, grant subsidies to cover expenses incurred in operating a child care center installed and operated, independently or collaboratively, by a business owner, as prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor. In such cases, higher levels of subsidies may be granted to the business owners of enterprises eligible for preferential support (including their association that consists of at least 50/100 of the enterprises eligible for preferential support, and only referring to the cases where the number of children of the insured employees belonging to the enterprises eligible for preferential support, among the infants looked after by a workplace child care center established and operated by the relevant business owner, is at least 50/100 of the total number of the infants taken care of, based on the last day of every month; hereafter the same shall apply in this Article).

(5) The Minister of Employment and Labor may, pursuant to Article 26 of the Act, grant subsidies or loans to cover some of the expenses incurred in installing child care centers by a business owner or an employers' association that intends to install and operate such facility independently or collaboratively, as determined by the Minister of Employment and Labor. In such cases, higher levels of loans or subsidies may be granted to the business owners of enterprises eligible for preferential support, the business owners who intend to install child care centers for disabled children or infants, or their association.

The individual projects that become subject to blanket application, as prescribed in Article 8 of the Act On The Collection Of Insurance Premiums, Etc. For Employment Insurance And Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance, shall be deemed a single project, and Articles 17, 19, 24, 25, 25-2, 26, and 29 shall apply thereto.

(1) Where a business owner who meets the requirements for granting subsidies for retaining employees prescribed in Article 19 has satisfied the requirements for reimbursing expenses prescribed in Article 17, the requirements for reimbursing expenses prescribed in Article 22-2 (1), or for granting subsidies for extending employment of seniors prescribed in Article 25 (1) 3, incentives for employment promotion prescribed in Article 26 or for providing incentives for continued employment of seniors prescribed in Article 28-4 during the period for which the measures for retaining employees have been taken, the business owner shall be granted subsidies for retaining employees prescribed in Article 19 except the subsidies or incentives.

(2) Where a business owner becomes simultaneously eligible for at least two of the following subsidies or incentives for the same employee, only one of them shall be granted to the business owner at his or her request: Provided, That where a business owner becomes simultaneously eligible for both a subsidy to be provided when the business requiring employment assistance pursuant to Article 17 (1) 4 additionally hires unemployed youths within an age range determined by the Minister of Employment and Labor (hereafter referred to as "youth" in this Article) and a subsidy to be provided to support the long-term employment of youths employed by a small or medium enterprise pursuant to subparagraph 2 of Article 35, both of them may be granted to the business owner:

1. A subsidy prescribed in Article 17 (1) 3 through 7;

2. A subsidy for promotion of local employment prescribed in Article 24;

3. A subsidy for extending employment of seniors prescribed in Article 25;

4. A subsidy for employment of seniors aged at least 60 years prescribed in Article 25-2;

5. An incentive for employment promotion prescribed in Article 26;

6. An incentive for continued employment of seniors under Article 28-4;

7. An incentive for employment security during the period of childbirth and child care prescribed in Article 29 (1) 3;

8. A subsidy to be provided to business owners prescribed in subparagraphs 1 through 7 of Article 35;

9. A subsidy for operating expenses of workplace child care centers prescribed in Article 38 (4).

(3) If a business owner concurrently meets the requirements for granting subsidies to cover expenses prescribed in Article 17 (1) 1 and 2, only one of those subsidies shall be granted upon request by the business owner.

(4) If a business owner who receives any of the subsidies prescribed in paragraph (3) meets the requirements for receiving any of the subsidies or incentives under paragraph (2) during the period for which the business owner receives the relevant subsidies, the amount calculated by multiplying the amount of the corresponding subsidies or incentives among those prescribed in paragraph (2) by the rate determined and publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor shall be granted upon request by the business owner.

(5) Where a business owner eligible for incentives for the promotion of employment of seniors pursuant to Article 18 of the Addenda to the Enforcement Decree of the Employment Insurance Act (Presidential Decree No. 22603) also satisfies the requirements for receiving subsidies for employment of seniors aged at least 60 years prescribed in Article 25-2, only one of those incentives or subsidies shall be granted upon request by the business owner.

(6) If an employee simultaneously meets the requirements for at least two types of subsidies under Articles 28 or 28-2, only one of those subsidies shall be granted upon choice of the relevant employee.

[Title Amended on Jul. 31, 2010]

[The amended provisions of paragraph (5) of this Article shall be effective until December 31, 2020 pursuant to Article 2 (2) of the Addenda to the Presidential Decree No. 23513 promulgated on January 13, 2012.]

The term “the cases prescribed by the Presidential Decree” used in Article 26-2 of the Act refers to those in which an employer newly employs a worker or takes employment retention measures which falls under any of the following subparagraphs：
1. Where an employer receives financial support such as subsidy, etc., under the Act on the Protection and Settlement Support of Residents Escaping from North Korea；
2. Where an employer receives financial support such as subsidy, etc., under the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act；
3. Where an employer receives financial support such as subsidy, etc., under the Act on Employment Promotion and Vocational Rehabilitation for Disabled Persons；
4. Other cases where an employer receives financial support from a nation or a local government.
[This Article Newly Inserted by Presidential Decree No. 23139, Sep. 15, 2011]

(1) "Vocational skills development training prescribed by Presidential Decree" in Article 27 (1) of the Act means vocational skills development training courses recognized under Article 24 (1) of the Act on the Development of Vocational Skills of Workers, which refer to any of the following training courses or courses of work in parallel with vocational training recognized under Article 15 (2) of the Act on Support for Work in Parallel With Vocational Training in the Industrial Field.

1. A training course for vocational skills development conducted for insured employees [excluding insured employees defined in subparagraph 1 (b) of Article 2 of the Act (hereinafter referred to as "insured self-employed worker")];

2. A training course for vocational skills development offered for persons who are not insured, but employed by the relevant business owner;

3. A training course for vocational skills development offered for persons that are considered to be employed by the relevant business or any business relating to such business;

4. A training course for vocational skills development offered for persons who have registered themselves with an employment security office for finding a job;

5. A training course for vocational skills development offered for insured employees (excluding insured self-employed workers) employed by the relevant business during paid leave (which shall not be annual paid leave prescribed in Article 60 of the Labor Standards Act, but which means leave paid with the wage equal to, or greater than the ordinary wage prescribed in Article 6 of the Enforcement Decree of the Labor Standards Act (hereinafter referred to as "ordinary wage") for the period of leave granted in compliance with any of the following requirements:

(a) A business owner of an enterprise eligible for preferential support or a business owner who has a regular workforce of less than 150 employees shall grant paid leave of at least 5 consecutive days to his or her employees to enable them to attend the training course for at least 20 hours;

(b) Any business owner falling under item (a) shall continuously grant paid leave of at least 30 days to the relevant employees to have them attend the training course for at least 120 hours and employ substitute employees;

(c) Deleted.

(d) A business owner shall grant paid leave to employees who are engaged in production or any related work, as publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor, in order to encourage them to improve the skills and techniques to have them attend the training course for at least 20 hours.

(2) Subsidies for vocational skills development training under paragraph (1) shall be any of the following amounts:

1. A subsidy for vocational skills development training prescribed in any subparagraph of paragraph (1): An amount obtained by multiplying training expenses (limited to expenses that satisfy the standards publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor) by a rate publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor in consideration of the size of the business, etc.: Provided, That a subsidy for the following vocational skills development training shall be the amount prescribed in the main sentence plus the amounts classified as follows.:

(a) Vocational skills development training prescribed in paragraph (1) 3 and 4: Training allowances determined and publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor;

(b) Vocational skills development training prescribed in paragraph (1) 5: Of the wages paid during a period of paid leave and the wages paid to substitute employees under paragraph (1) 5 (b), an amount determined and publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor;

2. A subsidy for work in parallel with vocational training recognized under Article 15 (2) of the Act on Support for Work in Parallel With Vocational Training in the Industrial Field: An amount obtained by multiplying training expenses publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor by a rate publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor in consideration of the type of training, occupational type, business size, etc. plus prices for boarding and lodging and training incentives.

(3) “Person prescribed by Presidential Decree” in Article 27 (2) 6 of the Act means a person falling under any of the following subparagraphs:

1. Employees engaged in any production or production-related job who are publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor to encourage them to improve their skills and techniques;

2. Employees determined and publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor, to whom a shift work system is newly applied after a business owner newly adopts such shift work system under which the employees are divided into groups to work on a shift basis in order to realize job creation under Article 20 of the Act or after a business owner increases the number of existing employees' groups to a shift work system is applied (limited to the cases of operating not more than four groups);

3. Employees employed on the condition of receiving vocational skills development training and evaluation.

(4) Where the Minister of Employment and Labor intends to preferentially assist a business owner who conducts vocational skills development training for employees falling under any subparagraphs of Article 27 (2) of the Act with expenses necessary for such training, he or she shall determine and publicly announce the level of such assistance in consideration of training expenses, wages paid to persons eligible to receive training and substitute employees during a period of their training, and other expenses necessary for such training.

(5) With respect to vocational skills development training, the extent of assisting training expenses training allowances, the maximum amount of assistance, the procedures for applying for assistance and other matters necessary for assistance shall be prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor.

(1) The total annual amount of training expenses to be subsidized to a business owner under Article 28 of the Act shall be an amount equivalent to 100/100 (or 240/100 for an enterprise eligible for preferential support) of either of the insurance premium for the programs for employment security and vocational training among the employment insurance premium a business owner shall pay for the pertinent year, as prescribed in Articles 13 (1) 1 and 16-3 of the Insurance Premium Collection Act, or of the insurance premium for the programs for employment security and vocational training among the estimate-based insurance premium for employment insurance a business owner shall pay for the pertinent year, as prescribed in Articles 13 (1) 1 and 17 (1) of the Insurance Premium Collection Act: Provided, That the maximum amount of the total expenses that can be subsidized to a business owner who falls under Article 18 (2) may be adjusted to 130/100 (or 300/100 for an enterprise eligible for preferential support) of either of the insurance premium for the programs for employment security and vocational training among the employment insurance premium for the pertinent year the business owner shall pay for the pertinent year, or of the insurance premium for the programs for the employment security and vocational training among the estimate-based insurance premium for employment insurance the business owner shall pay for the pertinent year.

(2) Where a business owner provides training courses recognized pursuant to Article 24 of the Act on the Development of Vocational Skills of Workers to employees employed by other business owners, the business owner may receive the subsidies up to 80/100 of either of the insurance premium for the programs for employment security and vocational training among the employment insurance premium the business owner shall pay for the pertinent year, or of the insurance premium for the programs for employment security and vocational training among the estimate-based insurance premium for employment insurance the business owner shall pay for the pertinent year in addition to the subsidies under paragraph (1).

(3) Notwithstanding paragraphs (1) and (2), the minimum amount of subsidized expenses prescribed by the Minister of Employment and Labor shall be the amount of subsidies, where the amount of the subsidies is less than the minimum amount of subsidized expenses prescribed by the Minister of Employment and Labor, considering the size and type of business.

(4) Any of the following subsidies shall not be included in the upper limit of subsidies for vocational skills development training for which the relevant business owner is eligible pursuant to paragraphs (1) through (3):

1. Subsidies for vocational skills development training prescribed in Article 41 (1) 1 to be provided for the training under Article 3 (1) 1 of the Enforcement Decree of the Act on the Development of Vocational Skills of Workers;

2. Subsidies for vocational skills development training prescribed in Article 41 (1) 3 and 4;

3. Any of the following subsidies among the subsidies for vocational skills development training prescribed in Article 41 (1) 5 (a) and (b):

(a) An aggregate of the wages paid during paid leave and the amount corresponding to part of the wages paid to substitute employees, which is subsidized pursuant to Article 41 (2);

(b) Expenses for vocational skills development training publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor in consideration of the fields, period, etc. of vocational skills development training.

(5) Notwithstanding paragraphs (2) through (4), a business owner for whom assistance for vocational skills development programs is restricted pursuant to Article 35 (4) of the Act shall not be governed by paragraphs (2) through (4) for three years from the insurance year to which the end date of the period of restriction on subsidies or loans pursuant to Article 55 (2) of the Act on the Development of Vocational Skills of Workers belongs.

(1) Where any of the following insured employees, etc. receives vocational skills development training, as prescribed in subparagraph 1 of Article 2 of the Act on the Development of Vocational Skills of Workers (hereinafter referred to as "vocational skills development training"), the Minister of Employment and Labor may, pursuant to Article 29 (1) of the Act, fully or partially subsidize expenses incurred, as prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor:

1. An insured person, etc. employed by an enterprise eligible for preferential support;

2. An insured employee, etc. falling under any subparagraph of Article 27 (2) of the Act;

3. An insured self-employed worker, etc.;

4. An insured employee, etc. scheduled to be severed from employment within 180 days from the date an application for employment training is filed with the director of an employment security office;

5. An insured employee, etc. laid off for at least 90 days without pay for management reasons;

6. An insured employee, etc. aged at least 45 who is employed by a large enterprise and whose income is less than the amount determined and publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor;

7. An insured employee, etc. who does not receive vocational skills development training conducted by an employer under Article 27 of the Act for at least three years;

8. An insured employee, etc. under child care leave pursuant to Article 19 of the Equal Employment Opportunity and Work-Family Balance Assistance Act.

(2) Expenses required for the vocational skills development training prescribed in paragraph (1) may be paid to insured employees, etc. who receive such training or the institutions that conduct such training: Provided, That when an insured employee, etc. pays a training fee by a credit card prescribed in subparagraph 3 of Article 2 of the Specialized Credit Finance Business Act and the credit card company who issued the credit card pays for the amount of the training fee to the training institution, as prescribed by the Minister of Employment and Labor, the Minister of Employment and Labor may pay a training fee to the credit card company on behalf of the insured employee, etc. who receives such training.

(3) Necessary matters concerning the scope of training courses for which training expenses may be subsidized pursuant to paragraph (1) and the procedure for the subsidization shall be prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor.

[Title Amended on Jul. 24, 2013]

(1) Where an insured employee (insured self-employed workers shall be limited to those for whom 180 days have passed in aggregate since purchase of insurance as at the date of an announcement of credit business for the relevant year) is admitted to or enrolled in any of the following schools and facilities on his or her own account pursuant to Article 29 (1), the Minister of Employment and Labor may fully or partially grant a loan for the relevant school expenses within the budget:

1. Polytechnic colleges under the Act on the Development of Vocational Skills of Workers;

2. A lifelong education facility in the form of a distance learning college whose graduates shall be recognized as having an academic background and degree equivalent to that of graduates from a junior college, university, or college prescribed in Article 33 (3) of the Lifelong Education Act;

3. A school under Article 2 of the Higher Education Act.

(2) The Minister of Employment and Labor may fully or partially grant a loan to an insured employee who receives vocational skills development training within the budget: Provided, That the foregoing shall not apply to any of the following courses:

1. Activities of exchanging information, such as seminars and symposiums, or general culture courses on current affairs or general knowledge;

2. Courses provided as a hobby, pastime, or sports;

3. Other courses deemed inappropriate by the Minister of Employment and Labor as vocational skills development training courses.

(3) The scope of the persons eligible for loans to help cover tuition fees incurred in a foreign language course as part of vocational skills development training under paragraph (2) shall be prescribed by the Minister of Employment and Labor.

(4) The interest rate on loans prescribed in paragraphs (1) through (3), the term of such loans, and other conditions of the loans shall be prescribed by the Minister of Employment and Labor, subject to prior consultation with the Minister of Economy and Finance.

(5) Matters concerning the selection of the persons eligible for loans prescribed in paragraphs (1) through (3), the procedure for granting loans, and other matters necessary for granting such loans shall be prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor.

(1) The Minister of Employment and Labor may, pursuant to Article 29 (1) of the Act, pay all or some of the school expenses, within the budget, on behalf of insured employees of enterprises eligible for preferential support (excluding insured self-employed workers), who are admitted to or enrolled in a school or facility falling under any subparagraph of Article 45 (1) and who demonstrates excellent academic performance.

(2) Necessary matters concerning the selection of persons eligible for subsidization under paragraph (1), the amount and methods of such subsidization shall be prescribed by the Minister of Employment and Labor.

(1) The Minister of Employment and Labor may provide vocational training courses for the unemployed that are deemed necessary for starting a business or finding jobs, as prescribed in Article 29 (2) of the Act:

1. Deleted.

2. Deleted.

3. Deleted.

4. Deleted.

(2) The expenses incurred in connection with the training courses for employment under paragraph (1) may be paid to persons who attend such training courses or the institutions that provide such training courses: Provided, That where a person who receives training has paid training fees with credit cards prescribed in Article 2 of the Specialized Credit Financial Business Act, as prescribed by the Minister of Employment and Labor, and a credit card business entity who issued the credit card has paid the training fee to the training institution, the Minister of Employment and Labor may pay the training fee to the relevant credit card business entity on behalf of the trainee.

(3) Where an unemployed person who attends an employment training course prescribed in paragraph (1) is not eligible for job-seeking benefits prescribed in Article 43 (1) of the Act, the Minister of Employment and Labor may pay him or her the training allowance.

(4) The Minister of Employment and Labor may extend a loan to fully or partially cover training expenses to a person who was formerly insured, but am now unemployed and who attends the employment training course prescribed in paragraph (1).

(5) Matters concerning the selection of persons eligible for loans prescribed in paragraph (4), procedures for extending such loans, the number of such loans extended, and other necessary matters for extension of such loans shall be prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor.

(6) The institutions offering training courses for employment prescribed in paragraph (1) and other matters necessary for the implementation of employment training courses shall be prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor.

[Title Amended on Jul. 15, 2011]

(1) "Low-income insured employees, etc. prescribed by Presidential Decree" in Article 29 (3) of the Act means those who meet the selection standards determined and publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor in consideration of the income level and the history of loans, among the following persons:

1. An insured employee under subparagraph 1 (a) of Article 2 of the Act who is on leave without receiving money and valuables including leave benefits;

2. An insured employee who is self-employed;

3. An insured employee, etc. falling under any subparagraph of Article 27 (2) of the Act;

4. An employee who was insured while unemployed (excluding those who are receiving unemployment benefits under Chapter IV of the Act) when he or she applied for loans to cover living expenses under Article 29 (3) of the Act;

5. An insured employee, etc. who falls under subparagraph 5 (f) of Article 35;

6. Other insured employees deemed to need loans to cover living expenses by the Minister of Employment and Labor.

(2) The living expenses prescribed in Article 29 (3) of the Act may be loaned within the budget.

(3) The Minister of Employment and Labor shall determine whether to extend loans for living expenses incurred in the execution of vocational skills development training to an applicant who receives such training by verifying whether the applicant meets the eligibility for loans prescribed in paragraph (1).

(4) Matters concerning application for loans prescribed in paragraph (3), procedures for determining whether to extend loans, loan cancellation, the amount of loan and methods for repayment, etc. and other necessary matters concerning the operation of a loan mechanism shall be determined and publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor.

[This Article Newly Inserted on Mar. 12, 2009]

If it is deemed necessary for the development and improvement of the vocational skills of insured persons, etc., the Minister of Employment and Labor may, under the conditions prescribed by the Presidential Decree, loan the expenses necessary to install vocational skills development training facilities and to purchase the equipment thereof, and provide support for the expenses necessary to install other vocational skills development training facilities determined by the Minister of Employment and Labor
and to purchase and operate the equipment thereof. [Amended by Act No. 10339, Jun. 4, 2010]

(1) Pursuant to Article 30 of the Act, the Minister of Employment and Labor may grant a loan, within the budget, to a business owner, an employers' association, or an employee' association, which has conducted or intends to conduct vocational skills development training, a juristic person established with permission from the Minister of Employment and Labor for vocational skills development training pursuant to Article 32 of the Act on the Development of Vocational Skills of Workers, and a person who installs and operates a designated vocation training facility prescribed in subparagraph 3 (b) of Article 2 of the Act on the Development of Vocational Skills of Workers for the expenses incurred in installing vocational skills development training facilities and purchasing equipment for such facilities.

(2) The interest rates on loans prescribed in paragraph (1), the term of such loans, and other conditions of the loans shall be prescribed by the Minister of Employment and Labor, subject to prior consultation with the Minister of Economy and Finance. In such cases, a different interest rate may be set for the business owner of an enterprise eligible for preferential support, an employers' association of such enterprises, and a business owner or an employers' association that has implemented or intends to implement a vocational skills development program under Article 52 (1) 6.

(3) Necessary matters concerning loan limits to cover expenses prescribed in paragraph (1) and the procedure for the extension of such loans shall be prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor.

(1) Pursuant to Article 30 of the Act, the Minister of Employment and Labor may subsidize part of the expenses incurred in installing a facility or purchasing equipment, within the budget, where a business owner, employers' association, or federation of such organizations, independently or collaboratively, installs a facility for vocational skills development training or purchases equipment for such facility in order to conduct training in any of the occupations publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor, including the governmental organizations and strategic industries under Article 15 of the Act on the Development of Vocational Skills of Workers, or where a public organization that has installed a public vocational training facility pursuant to subparagraph 3 (a) of Article 2 of the Act on the Development of Vocational Skills of Workers improves or repairs an antiquated facility or purchases equipment. In such cases, a business owner who runs an enterprise eligible for preferential support, an employers' association of such enterprises, or a business owner or an employers' association that carries out vocational skills development programs prescribed in Article 52 (1) 6 may be granted preferential treatment.

(2) Necessary matters concerning limits on and procedures for the subsidization prescribed in paragraph (1) shall be prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor.

(1) With regard to those who undertake a project falling under any of the following subparagraphs, the Minister of Employment and Labor may support all or part of the expenses necessary for the project pursuant to Article 31 (1) 2.：[Amended by Presidential Decree No. 21015, Sep. 18, 2008 and Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]
1. A qualification test project carried out by an employer to improve workers’ skills；and
2. A project carried out by a national technical qualification test agency under the National Technical Qualification Act to make it convenient for the insured to acquire a qualification；
(2) The qualification test project under paragraph (1) 1 shall meet all of the following requirements：[Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]
1. The qualification test project shall be undertaken by an employer alone or jointly for workers of the business concerned or a business related to the business concerned；
2. The qualification test project shall be directly related to knowledge and skills needed in the business concerned；
3. Regulations giving preferential treatment to workers who have acquired the qualification in terms of promotion, pay raises, remunerations, etc., shall be established and implemented；
4. In relation to the test project, any expenses, including test fees, shall not be collected from workers who intend to acquire the qualification；
5. The qualification test shall not be for profits；and
6. The qualification test project shall meet other requirements prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor.
(3) Necessary matters concerning the application for and method of the support under paragraph (1), etc., shall be prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]

(1) "Programs prescribed by Presidential Decree" in Article 31 (1) 3 of the Act means the following projects:

1. Projects concerning surveys and research on vocational skills development programs;

2. Projects concerning education and public relations for vocational skills development programs;

3. Projects concerning the development, compilation, and distribution of medium for vocational skills development training;

4. Vocational skills development projects conducted collaboratively by an employers' association, employees’ association, or federation of such organizations;

5. Projects concerning support for the accreditation system for good enterprises in the development of human resources;

6. Vocational skills development projects conducted by a business owner, an employers' association, or a school prescribed in Article 2 of the Higher Education Act after entering into an agreement with two or more business owners who conduct vocational skills development training for their employees;

7. Projects concerning education and training conducted for nurturing and developing skills of the trainers for vocational skills development prescribed in Articles 36 and 37 of the Act on the Development of Vocational Skills of Workers and the staff in charge of the development of human resources prescribed in Article 19 (1) 7 of the Enforcement Decree of the same Act;

8. Workplace skill development projects conducted pursuant to Article 12 of the Act on the Development of Vocational Skills of Workers;

9. Educational and training projects conducted in accordance with an educational or training curriculum of a polytechnic college, as prescribed in Article 40 of the Act on the Development of Vocational Skills of Workers;

10. Vocational skills development training conducted in order to improve the performance of essential duties of a business owner or employees of an enterprise eligible for preferential support (which shall be limited to exceptional training programs determined by the Minister of Employment and Labor);

11. Vocational skills development projects conducted in order for employees of enterprises eligible for preferential support to have extended opportunities to obtain knowledge on their jobs or promote the systemization of their learning so that the knowledge on duties within such enterprises can be accumulated and shared easily;

12. Vocational skills development projects conducted to improve the skills of business owners or staff in charge of the development of human resources in enterprises eligible for preferential support for developing human resources;

13. Systematic support projects for on-site training for enterprises eligible for preferential support;

14. Deleted.

15. Other projects designed to promote vocational skills development.

(2) Where the vocational skills development projects prescribed in paragraph (1) 6 are executed, the Minister of Employment and Labor shall directly grant to the implementers of the relevant vocational skills development projects the aggregated amount the ratio of which is determined and publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor (hereafter referred to as "individual amount" in this paragraph) out of the maximum amount of the subsidies for annual training expenses for vocational skills development which each of the business owners who entered into agreement is entitled to receive pursuant to Article 42 (1) through (3). In such cases, such amount shall be deemed to have been subsidized for each of the business owners who entered into agreement, within the limit of subsidized expenses pursuant to Article 42 (1) through (3).

(3) Necessary matters concerning application for the subsidization of expenses prescribed in paragraph (1) and the method of such subsidization shall be prescribed by the Minister of Employment and Labor.

(1) If the Minister of Employment and Labor intends to entrust the implementation of vocational skills development training programs pursuant to Article 31 (2) of the Act, he/she shall establish a plan for the vocational skills development training programs to be entrusted every year. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]
(2) The vocational skills development training programs prescribed in paragraph (1) shall be regarded as vocational skills development training for national key and strategic industry occupations (hereinafter referred to as “national key and strategic industry occupation training”) under Article 15 of the Workers Vocational Skills Development Act. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22603, Dec. 31, 2010]
(3) The provision of national key and strategic industry occupation training shall be entrusted to a facility or an institution prescribed in each paragraph of Article 12 of the Enforcement Decree of the Workers Vocational Skills Development Act. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22603, Dec. 31, 2010]
(4) Necessary matters concerning the provision of national key and strategic industry occupation training etc., such as targeted trainees, training procedures and support for training expenses and allowances for national key and strategic industry occupation training, etc. shall be prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010 and Presidential Decree No. 22603, Dec. 31, 2010]

(1) Where a business owner of a construction business or employers' association conducts vocational skills development training in order to develop and improve vocational skills of construction workers who are not employed at a specific place of business, as determined and publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor, the Minister of Employment and Labor may, pursuant to Article 32 of the Act, partially subsidize expenses incurred therein, and may also subsidize expenses incurred in training, where a training allowance is paid to such construction workers during the training period.

(2) As to the subsidization of the training expenses for vocational skills development prescribed in paragraph (1), Article 41 (2) shall apply mutatis mutandis.

(1) The “not-for-profit corporation or organization prescribed by the Presidential Decree” in Article 34 of the Act refers to a not-for-profit corporation established by the law or established after obtaining approval or permission from the State or a local government or a not-for-profit organization registered under the Assistance for Non-profit Non-governmental Organizations Act.
(2) The Minister of Employment and Labor may, if a local government or the not-for-profit corporation or organization under paragraph (1) carries out a project for the employment security, employment promotion and vocational skills development of the insured, etc., support all or part of the costs within the limits of the budget pursuant to Article 34 of the Act. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]
(3) The Minister of Employment and Labor shall, if he/she intends to support the costs pursuant to paragraph (2), shall announce the types and contents of projects eligible for the support, the conditions for, contents and level of, and application method of the support, etc., in advance. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]
Article 35 (Restriction, etc. on Support due to Fraudulent Acts)
(1) If a person has received or intends to receive support for employment security and vocational skills development projects under this Chapter in a false or other fraudulent manners, the Minister of Employment and Labor may restrict the support or order a return of the support received in a false or other fraudulent manners under the conditions prescribed in the Presidential Decree. [Amended by Act No. 9315, Dec. 31, 2008 and Act No. 10339, Jun. 4, 2010]
(2) In the case of ordering a return pursuant to paragraph (1), the Minister of Employment and Labor may, in addition to what has already been provided, collect an amount up to five times the amount received in a false or other fraudulent manners, in accordance with the standards prescribed in the Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor. [Amended by Act No. 9315, Dec. 31, 2008 and Act No. 10339, Jun. 4, 2010]
(3) Notwithstanding paragraphs (1) and (2), the provisions of Article 55 (1) and (2) and Article 56 (1) through (3) of the Workers Vocational Skills Development Act shall apply mutatis mutandis to restrictions on, the return and additional collection of, support for a person who has received or intends to receive, such support for vocational skills development projects in a false or other fraudulent manners. [Newly Inserted by Act No. 9315, Dec. 31, 2008 and amended by Act No. 10337, May 31, 2010]
(4) The Minister of Employment and Labor may not provide support for employment security and vocational skills development projects under this Chapter to those who have failed to pay insurance premiums, as prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor. [Amended by Act No. 9315, Dec. 31, 2008, Act No. 10339, Jun. 4, 2010 and Act No. 10895, Jul. 21, 2011]

(1) Where a person has received, or intends to receive, any of the subsidies or incentives specified in Articles 17, 19, 21-3, 21-4, 22, 22-2, 24, 25, 25-2, 26, 28, 28-2, 28-4, 29, 33, 35, 35-2, 36, 37, 37-2, 38, and 55 by fraud or other improper means, the Minister of Employment and Labor shall not grant, pursuant to Article 35 (1) of the Act, the unpaid amount of the subsidies or incentives that the person intends to receive, and shall also order such person to return the subsidies or incentives that have already been paid to him or her by fraud or other improper means.

(2) With respect to a person that has received, or intends to receive, any of the subsidies or incentives specified in paragraph (1) by fraud or other improper means as referred to in Article 35 (1) of the Act, the Minister of Employment and Labor shall impose restrictions on the payment of subsidies or incentives during the period specified in attached Table 2 in relation to any subsidy or incentive that falls under any of the subsidies or incentives specified in paragraph (1) that are to be newly granted, within one year from the date the Minister has issued an order to return or restricted the payment thereof under paragraph (1): Provided, That the period of the aforementioned payment restriction may be reduced up to one third of the said period of payment restriction, considering the extent of such impropriety, motivation, results, etc.

(3) A person who receives an order to return under paragraph (1) (including an order for an additional payment under Article 35 (2) of the Act; the same shall apply hereafter in this Article) shall pay the notified amount within 30 days from the date a notice thereof is issued to him or her. In such cases, such payment shall be made in lump sum, but it may be paid in installments, as determined by the Minister of Employment and Labor, where the amount of payment exceeds10 million won.

(4) Where a person who was ordered to return subsidies under paragraphs (1) and (3), or Article 56 of the Act on the Development of Vocational Skills of Workers (limited to orders to return the amount subsidized or loaned through fund) fails to meet such obligation to return within the given period, no subsidies or incentives specified in the Act or training expenses for vocational skills development specified in the Act on the Development of Vocational Skills of Workers shall be paid to him or her from the date such period ends until the date the obligation to return is fulfilled.

(1) "Any person prescribed by Presidential Decree" referred to in Article 36 of the Act means the following:

1. The Human Resources Development Service of Korea prescribed in the Human Resources Development Service of Korea Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Human Resources Development Service of Korea");

2. Polytechnic colleges under the Act on the Development of Vocational Skills of Workers;

3. Workplace skills development organizations prescribed in Article 23 of the Act on the Development of Vocational Skills of Workers.

(2) When the Minister of Employment and Labor commissions a person to carry out any of his or her business affairs on his or her behalf pursuant to Article 36 of the Act, he or she shall subsidize the expenses incurred in carrying out such affairs through the fund.

If the head of an Employment Security Office has decided whether to pay unemployment benefits, he/she shall inform the applicant of the decision in writing to the applicant：Provided that if the head of an Employment Security Office has decided to pay unemployment benefits, he/she may record the fact in the applicant’s insurance recipient qualification certificate pursuant to Article 62 and deliver it to the applicant instead of giving the notification, and where the applicant agrees, such notice may be delivered through information and communications network. .

The term “the amount determined by Presidential Decree” in Article 38 paragraph (2) means the total amount that is remitted to the account for the unemployment benefit receipt account as prescribed by Article 37-2 paragraph (1) of the Act.
[This Article Newly Inserted by Presidential Decree No. 26208, Apr. 20, 2015]

(1) The head of an Employment Security Office shall, if he/she pays unemployment benefits, draw up an original register of benefits for each recipient of unemployment benefits.
(2) At the request of a person who is related to the insurance, the head of an Employment Security Office shall make the original register of benefits available to the person and issue the person with a certificate if it is deemed necessary.

"Other grounds prescribed by Presidential Decree" in Article 40 (2) 1 of the Act means the following: Provided, That the acceptance of money and valuables prescribed by the Minister of Employment and Labor pursuant to the proviso to subparagraph 5 of Article 2 of the Act shall be excluded herefrom:

1. Business suspension of a place of business;

2. Leave related to pregnancy, childbirth, or child care;

3. Other grounds determined and publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor as layoff or any other similar situation.

(1) A person who intends to file a report on his or her unemployment status pursuant to Article 42 of the Act shall file an application for a job prescribed in Article 9 of the Employment Security Act via the electronic network.

(2) A person who filed an application for a job pursuant to paragraph (1) shall file an application for recognition of eligibility for benefits with the head of an employment security office having jurisdiction over his or her place of residence, and he or she may do so with the head of a relevant employment security office in any of the following cases:

1. Where he or she intends to do so with the head of an employment security office having jurisdiction over the area in which the applicant wishes to find a job;

2. Where he or she intends to do so with the head of an employment security office having jurisdiction over the place of business in which the applicant worked before severance of his or her employment;

3. Where he or she intends to do so with the head of an employment security office having jurisdiction over the area nearby in which transportation is deemed more convenient than that of an employment security office having jurisdiction over his or her place of residence.

(3) Where there is a certificate of severance issued by the business owner under Article 42 (3) of the Act, a person who intends to file a report on his or her unemployment status pursuant to paragraph (1) shall submit the certificate to the head of a competent employment security office of his or her domicile.

(4) The head of the employment security office (hereinafter referred to as an "employment security office having jurisdiction over the place of application") shall, upon receipt of an application for recognition of eligibility for benefits pursuant to paragraph (2), designate the date the person is required to appear in the employment security office to obtain recognition of his or her unemployment status pursuant to Article 44 (2) of the Act (hereinafter referred to as "unemployment recognition date") and shall give notice of such date to the reporting person.

(1) Where an applicant who has filed an application for recognition of eligibility for benefits is recognized as being eligible for the job-seeking benefits, as prescribed in Article 43 (1) of the Act, the head of an employment security office shall, upon receipt of the application for recognition of eligibility for benefits pursuant to Article 61, issue a certificate of eligibility for benefits of the employment insurance (hereinafter referred to as "certificate of eligibility") at the initial date of recognition of unemployment.

(2) If a person who has filed an application for recognition of eligibility for benefits is not recognized as eligible for job-seeking benefits prescribed in Article 43 (1) of the Act, the head of an employment security office shall give notice of such fact to the applicant.

(3) An eligible recipient shall, if the certificate of eligibility issued to him or her pursuant to paragraph (1) is worn out or lost, file an application for re-issuance thereof with the head of the competent employment security office in his or her place of application.

(4) An eligible recipient shall, when his or her name, resident registration number, address, or abode changes or is corrected, report such change to the head of the competent employment security office in his or her place of application. In such cases, the head of the competent employment security office shall modify the relevant information contained in the certificate of eligibility and return it.

(5) A person who holds a certificate of eligibility issued pursuant to paragraph (1) may request the head of the employment security office that recognized the eligibility for benefits to issue the statement of recognition of eligibility for benefits, which constituted the basis for recognition of eligibility for benefits.

(1) If an eligible recipient is to have his/her unemployment recognized pursuant to Article 44 (2) of the Act, he/she shall present himself/herself at the competent Employment Security Office in his/her application area on the unemployment recognition date, record on an application for recognition of unemployment the contents of his/her reemployment activities carried out from the next day of his/her previous unemployment recognition day to the unemployment recognition date concerned, and submit it together with his/her recipient qualification certificate. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 23139, Sep. 15, 2011]
(2) If the head of an Employment Security Office recognizes unemployment as provided in paragraph (1), he/she shall record this in the recipient qualification certificate and return it.
(3) The standards for the recognition of reemployment activities referred to in paragraph (1) shall be prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]

"Grounds prescribed by Presidential Decree" in Article 44 (2) 2 of the Act means any of the following:
1. Where a natural disaster occurs;

2. Where the rate calculated by dividing the number of applicants for recognition of eligibility for job-seeking benefits during a month by the number of insured employees as of the end of the month (hereinafter referred to as "eligibility application rate") exceeds 1/100 for two consecutive months;

3. Where a decision has been made to pay special extended benefits provided in Article 53 of the Act.

"Other eligible recipients prescribed by Presidential Decree" in Article 44 (2) 3 of the Act means any of the following persons:

1. A person who is unable to appear at the employment security office having jurisdiction over the place of application on the unemployment recognition date due to employment, an interview with a potential employer or any other unavoidable cause; and has appeared at the employment security office to file an application for change of the unemployment recognition date by no later than the day immediately before the unemployment recognition date;

2. A person who was unable to appear at the employment security office having jurisdiction over the place of application on the unemployment recognition date or the date immediately before the unemployment recognition date due to employment, an interview with a potential employer or any other unavoidable cause; and has appeared at the employment security office to file an application for change of the unemployment recognition date within 14 days after such cause ceases to exist;

3. A person who was unable to appear at the competent employment security office on the unemployment recognition date or the date immediately before the unemployment recognition date due to employment for a period of at least seven consecutive days; and has filed an application for recognition of unemployment via mail, facsimile, the information communication network, etc. within two months from the date he or she had been employed, along with a document that proves the date of employment: Provided, That when the acquisition of the insured status is reported under Article 15 of the Act as at the date of filing the application for unemployment recognition, a document that proves the date of employment may be omitted;

4. A person who was unable to appear at the employment security office on the unemployment recognition date due to such person’s mistake; and has appeared at the competent employment security office to file an application for change of the unemployment recognition date within 14 days from the unemployment recognition date (which shall be allowed only once during the duration of unemployment benefits for the relevant eligible recipient prescribed in Article 48 of the Act);

5. A person whose unemployment recognition date is deemed by the head of the competent employment security office to be changed for any of the following reasons:

(a) Where the duration of unemployment benefits prescribed in Article 48 of the Act ends;

(b) Where the unemployment recognition date falls on a holiday of government offices prescribed in the Regulations on Holidays of Government Offices;

(c) Where any other extenuating circumstance exists;

6. A person in whose case the disposition concerning unemployment benefits is cancelled or altered by an examination, review or lawsuit prescribed in Article 87 (1) of the Act or at the discretion of the head of the competent employment security office;

7. A person whose employment has been finally confirmed within 30 days from the unemployment recognition date;

8. A person who resides in islands (excluding the main island of Jeju Special Self-Governing Province and islands that are connected to land by breakwaters or bridges, etc.) and files an application for special exception to the recognition of unemployment;

9. A person deemed by the head of an employment security office to be able to report whether such person conducts re-employment activities and earns any income therefrom directly via the information and communications network.

(1) If an eligible recipient is to obtain recognition of unemployment pursuant to subparagraphs 1, 2 and 4 of Article 44 (3), he/she shall present himself/ herself at the competent Employment Security Office in his/her application area on the unemployment recognition date and submit an application for recognition of unemployment, along with his/her recipient qualification certificate and a certificate stating the reasons for not having presented himself/herself previously, within 14 days after the reason ceases to exist. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 23139, Sep. 15, 2011]
(2) Necessary matters concerning the details and issuer to be stated in the certificate referred to in paragraph (1) shall be prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]
(3) If an eligible recipient is to obtain recognition of unemployment pursuant to subparagraph 3 of Article 44 (3) of the Act, he/she shall submit, directly or through an agent, an application for recognition of unemployment, together with his/her recipient qualification certificate and other certificates issued by job-training or other institutions, to the head of the competent Employment Security Office.

The “measures prescribed by the Presidential Decree, such as support for setting up plans for reemployment activities, job placement, etc.,” in the former part of Article 44 (4) of the Act refer to the following measures necessary to promote the employment of eligible recipients：
1. Measures to provide support in setting up a plan for reemployment activities；
2. Measures to provide information and education about the insurance, including unemployment benefits；
3. Measures to provide in-depth counseling or guidance about things to be prepared in advance for reemployment, such as providing job aptitude tests and job information, etc.；
4. Measures to instruct ways of reemployment activities, including techniques of searching for and using employment information, such as job openings, training, etc., and resume writing and interview techniques；
5. Measures to provide job information and job placement services, accompany an applicant to an interview, and provide opportunities to participate in employment-related events；and
6. Measures necessary to promote reemployment, such as providing counseling over the need for training, providing information on suitable training courses and instructing training, etc.

(1) The daily wage which constitutes the basis for the calculation of job-seeking benefits, as prescribed in Article 45 (5) of the Act shall be 110,000 won if such wage exceeds 110,000 won.

(2) Where adjustment of the amount determined under paragraph (1) is deemed necessary due to the inflation rate, business fluctuations and the rate of wage inflation, the Minister of Employment and Labor shall consider changing such amount after the amount is applied.

(1) Where an eligible recipient has been employed pursuant to Article 47 (1) of the Act, the recipient shall state the fact in an application for recognition of unemployment filed on the first unemployment recognition date after the recipient was employed.

(2) Deleted.

[Title Amended on Sep. 15, 2015]

The “other causes provided for by the Presidential Decree” in Article 48 (2) of the Act refer to the following causes：[Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010；Presidential Decree No. 23139, Sep. 15, 2011]
1. Injuries or diseases of the recipient (excluding injuries or diseases for which injury and disease benefits are being paid pursuant to Article 63 of the Act)；
2. Injuries or diseases of the recipient’s spouse (limited to the case in which full-time care by the recipient is needed)；
3. Injuries or diseases of the lineal ascendants or descendants of the recipient or his/her spouse；
4. Change of residence for living together followed by overseas assignment of the recipient’s spouse, etc.；
5. Mandatory military service under the Military Service Act；
6. Detention or execution of sentence on criminal charges (excluding those not eligible to receive benefits pursuant to subparagraph 1 A of Article 58)；and
7. Reasons equivalent to the causes under subparagraphs 1 through 6 and prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor
[Title of this Article Amended by Presidential Decree No. 23513, Jan. 13, 2012]

(1) A person who intends to report the fact that he or she is unable to obtain a job pursuant to Article 48 (2) of the Act shall file an application for the postponement of the benefit period to the head of a competent employment security office in his or her place of application within the benefit period in person or through his or her agent, along with the certificate of eligibility (applicable only where he or she holds a certificate of eligibility): Provided, That if a natural disaster occurs, he or she performs his or her military service as prescribed in the Military Service Act, or any other ground exists beyond his or her control, the report shall be submitted within 30 days from the day such ground ceases to exist.

(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the report under Article 48 (2) of the Act shall be deemed to be filed on the date of the initial medical treatment where a person receives the medical care benefits pursuant to Article 40 of the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act.

(3) If the head of an employment security office recognizes that the report submitted under paragraph (1) falls under any ground for the postponement of the benefit period, he or she shall deliver a notice of such postponement of the benefit period to the reporting person, describe the details as required in the certificate of eligibility, and return it to the person.

(4) If the ground for the postponement of the benefit period ceases to exist or there is any change in such contents as specified by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor among the contents described in the application for the postponement of the benefit period, the person shall, upon receipt of a notice of the postponement of the benefit period as prescribed in paragraph (3), report such fact forthwith to the head of the competent employment security office in his or her place of application, and shall submit the notice of the postponement of the benefit period and the certificate of eligibility to him or her .

(5) The head of the competent employment security office shall, upon receipt of a report under paragraph (4), describe the relevant facts in the notice of postponement of the benefit period and the certificate of eligibility and return it to the reporting person.

[Title Amended on Aug. 13, 2012]

The “period prescribed by the Presidential Decree” in the latter part of Article 51 (2) of the Act shall be two years.

(1) "Person prescribed by Presidential Decree" in Article 52 (1) of the Act means an eligible recipient who meets each of the following requirements:

1. A person who has applied for jobs referred by the head of the competent employment security office (including cases where a person participates in an in-depth consultation or group consultation conducted by the head of the employment security office) on three or more occasions from the date he or she reported his or her unemployment status under Article 42 (1) of the Act until the payment of job-seeking benefits ends, but fails to obtain a job, and who has family members falling under any of the following to support:

(a) Person aged less than 18 years or more than 65 years old;

(b) Disabled person prescribed in the Act on the Employment Promotion and Vocational Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities;

(c) Patient who is required to receive medical treatment for one month or longer;

(d) Spouse who has no income;

(e) A person currently pursuing his or her studies, who is determined and publicly announced by the Minister of Employment and Labor;

2. Deleted;

3. A person whose daily basic wage used as a basis for computation of benefits and aggregate assets owned by him or her and his or her spouse do not meet the standards determined and publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor, respectively.

(2) The maximum number of days of payment of individually extended benefits shall be 60 days as specified in Article 52 (2) of the Act, and the period of such payment may be less than 60 days according to the standards determined by the Minister of Employment and Labor, considering repeated receipt of unemployment benefits within a given period of time.

(3) An eligible recipient who intends to receive individually extended benefits under Article 52 of the Act shall file an application for individually extended benefits with the head of the competent employment security office in his or her place of application by no later than the end of the days eligible for job-seeking benefits, along with his or her certificate of eligibility.

(4) Matters necessary for the payment of individually extended benefits referred to in paragraph (1) shall be prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor.

"Circumstances prescribed by Presidential Decree" in the main sentence of Article 53 (1) of the Act means any of the following circumstances: Provided, That in the case of subparagraphs 1 through 3, the foregoing shall not apply where such trend is expected to continue:

1. Where the rate calculated by dividing the number of persons who received job-seeking benefits each month (excluding the number of persons who received the training extension benefits, the individually extended benefits, or the specially extended benefits under Article 51 through 53 of the Act) by the number of insured employees as of the end of the month exceeds 3/100 for three consecutive months;

2. The rate of applications filed for benefits each month exceeds 1/100 for three consecutive months;

3. Where the monthly unemployment rate exceeds 6/100 for three consecutive months;

4. Where the Deliberative Council on Employment Policy passes a resolution approving payment of specially extended benefits prescribed in Article 53 of the Act due to a rapid deterioration in the employment situation following a rapid rise, etc. in unemployment.

(1) Where the National Pension Service under Article 24 of the National Pension Act additionally include the period during which a job seeker's allowance is received in the insured period of cover pursuant to Article 19-2 (1) of the same Act, it shall calculate the amount subsidized from the Employment Insurance Fund pursuant to Article 55-2 (1) of the Act and the latter part of Article 19-2 (3) of the National Pension Act (referring to the amount calculated by multiplying the pension premiums pursuant to the former part of Article 19-2 (3) of the National Pension Act by a percentage to be borne by the Employment Insurance Fund pursuant to Article 25-5 (2) of the Enforcement Decree of the same Act) and notify the Minister of Employment and Labor of such amount.

(2) Where the Minister of Employment and Labor receives the notification under paragraph (1), he or she shall pay the relevant amount to the National Pension Service.

(3) The Minister of Employment and Labor may request the National Pension Service to submit data necessary for verifying whether the amount paid pursuant to paragraph (2) was used appropriately. In such cases, the National Pension Service shall comply therewith, unless in extenuating circumstances.

[This Article Newly Inserted on Jul. 19, 2016]

(1) An eligible recipient shall, on the first unemployment recognition date when he presents himself/herself at the competent Employment Security Office in his/her application area, designate and report a financial institution and an account through which he/she wants to receive job-seeking benefits. The same shall apply in the case of changing a financial institution and an account. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 23139, Sep. 15, 2011]
(2) Job-seeking benefits shall be paid by sending them to an account in the financial institution designated by the eligible recipient.

(1) A person who intends to claim the payment of the job-seeking benefits not paid under Article 57 (1) of the Act (hereinafter referred to as "claimant for benefits payable") shall file a written claim for unemployment benefits payable with the head of the competent employment security office having jurisdiction over the place of application of the deceased eligible recipient.

(2) A claimant for unemployment benefits payable who intends to have the unemployment status of the deceased eligible recipient recognized under Article 57 (2) of the Act shall make an appearance at the competent employment security office having jurisdiction over the place of application of the deceased eligible recipient to file a written claim for unemployment benefits payable and to have the unemployment status of the eligible recipient recognized.

(3) A claimant for benefits payable shall, when he or she files a written claim for unemployment benefits payable, submit reports or documents that the deceased eligible recipient should have submitted if the deceased eligible recipient intended to receive job-seeking benefits.

With respect to the procedure for the payment of job-seeking benefits to a claimant for benefits payable, Article 75 shall apply mutatis mutandis. In such cases, "competent employment security office having jurisdiction over the place of application" shall be construed as "competent employment security office having jurisdiction over the place of application of the deceased eligible recipient;" and "eligible recipient" as "claimant for benefits payable."

(1) The head of an employment security office shall give prior notice to any of the following persons that the payment of job-seeking benefits may be suspended, as prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor:

1. An eligible recipient who refuses to accept a job offered by the head of an employment security office pursuant to Article 60 (1) of the Act;

2. An eligible recipient who refuses to receive vocational skills development training etc., instructed by the head of an employment security office pursuant to Article 60 (1) of the Act;

3. An eligible recipient who refuses to comply with the steps taken by the head of an employment security office to facilitate re-employment pursuant to Article 60 (2) of the Act.

(2) Notwithstanding the notice given pursuant to paragraph (1), the head of any employment security office shall suspend the payment of job-seeking benefits where an eligible recipient rejects a job offered or vocational skills development training required pursuant to Article 60 (1) or (2) of the Act on two or more occasions.

(3) The head of an employment security office shall, when he or she suspends the payment of job-seeking benefits pursuant to paragraph (2), inform the eligible recipient of the grounds for and period of the suspension of payment by no later than the day immediately preceding the next unemployment recognition date, and the eligible recipient shall not be deemed unemployed during such period of suspension of payment.

"Grounds prescribed by Presidential Decree" in the main sentence of Article 61 (2) of the Act means either of the following cases under which an eligible recipient falls:

1. Where the eligible recipient fails to report a fact that he or she has provided his or her labor during a period for which he or she intends to have his or her unemployment status recognized (hereafter referred to as "period of eligibility for recognition of unemployment") or makes any untrue statements in filing an application for recognition of unemployment;

2. Where the eligible recipient makes any untrue statements on his or her re-employment activities during the period eligible for recognition of unemployment in filing an application for recognition of unemployment.

(1) When the head of an employment security office has taken any of the following measures, he or she shall, without delay, inform the relevant eligible recipient or former eligible recipients (including the business owner under Article 62 (3) of the Act) of such measures:

1. Denial of job-seeking benefits under Article 61 of the Act;

2. Order to recover job-seeking benefits under Article 62 (1), (3), and (4) of the Act;

3.Additional collection under Article 62 (2) and (3) of the Act;

2. Appropriation for an amount to be returned or additional amount to be collected under Article 62 (5) of the Act;

(2) A person against whom the measures under paragraph (1) 2 and 3 were taken shall pay the relevant amount within 30 days from the receipt of notification under paragraph (1): Provided, That where an amount he or she is liable to pay exceeds the amount prescribed by the Minister of Employment and Labor, the person may, upon his or her application, make payment in installment.

(3) Where a person liable to pay an amount to be returned or additional amount to be collected under Article 62 (1) and (2) of the Act has yet to receive job-seeking benefits under Article 44 of the Act, the head of an employment security office shall appropriate an amount equivalent to 1/10 of the relevant job-seeking benefits for the relevant amount to be returned or additional amount to be collected under Article 62 (5) of the Act: Provided, That where a person liable to pay the relevant amount to be returned or additional amount to be collected agrees in writing to appropriate an amount greater than that prescribed in the main sentence, said amount may be appropriated.

(4) Where a person liable to pay an amount to be returned under Article 62 (4) of the Act has yet to receive job-seeking benefits under Article 44 of the Act and where he or she agrees in writing to appropriate all or part of the relevant job-seeking benefits for the amount to be returned under Article 62 (5) of the Act, the head of an employment security office may appropriate the agreed amount for the payment of the amount to be returned.

(5) The procedures and deadline for the payment in installments prescribed in the proviso to paragraph (2) shall be prescribed by the Minister of Employment and Labor.

(1) An eligible recipient shall, in case he/she intends to request the payment of injury and disease benefits under Article 63 (1) of the Act, directly or through an agent, submit a written application for injury and disease benefits, together with his/her recipient qualification certificate and a certificate of disease, injury or childbirth to the head of the competent Employment Security Office in his/her application area within 14 days of the date on which the reason for not to be able to work ceases to exist (within 30 days after the end of the benefit period, if the benefit period under Article 48 of the Act expires during the period he/she is unable to work)：Provided that in the case of a natural disaster or other inevitable reasons, they shall be submitted within seven days from the date on which the reason ceases to exist. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 23139, Sep. 15, 2011]
(2) The “compensations or benefits prescribed by the Presidential Decree” in Article 63 (4) of the Act refer to the following compensations or benefits：
1. Compensations for shutdown of business under subparagraph 2 of Article 3 (2) of the National Compensation Act；and
2. Compensations under Article 8 of the Act on the Honorable Treatment of and Support for Persons Killed or Wounded for Righteous Causes.

Articles 69 and 75 through 80, 80-2, 81 shall apply mutatis mutandis to sickness benefits. In such cases, "application for recognition of unemployment" in Article 69 shall be construed as "written claim for sickness benefits;" and "job-seeking benefits" in Articles 75 through 80, 80-2, 81 as "sickness benefits".

(1) The “standards prescribed by Presidential Decree” under Article 64 (1) of the Act refer to cases where an eligible recipient is reemployed after using not more than ½ of the total benefit days under Article 50 of the Act, calculated from the day before the reemployment date after the waiting period under Article 49 of the Act, and falls under any of the following subparagraphs：[Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22026, Feb. 8, 2010；Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010 and Presidential Decree No. 25022, Dec. 24, 2013]
1. If an eligible recipient is employed continuously for 12 months or more. Provided that persons reemployed by an employer prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor, who is his/her previous employer or is related to the previous employer, or by an employer who promised to hire him/her before the date of the report of unemployment under Article 42 of the Act, shall be excluded.
2. In case an eligible recipient runs his/her own business continuously for 12 months or more. This shall apply only in case the eligible recipient reports his/her preparatory activities for running the business concerned as part of his/her job-seeking activities during the benefit period pursuant to Article 44 (2) of the Act and is recognized as being unemployed.
(2) The “period prescribed by the Presidential Decree” in Article 64 (2) of the Act shall be two years.

(1) The amount of the early reemployment allowances under Article 64 (3) of the Act shall be calculated by multiplying the daily amount of his/her job-seeking benefits by one half of the number of unpaid days.
(2) Deleted. [Presidential Decree No. 25022, Dec. 24, 2013]
[This Article Wholly Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22026, Feb. 8, 2010]

(1) If an eligible recipient is to receive early reemployment allowances pursuant to Article 64 of the Act, he/she shall submit a written application for early reemployment allowances, together with the documents prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor, such as his/her recipient qualification certificate, etc., to the head of the competent Employment Security Office in his/her application area. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010, Presidential Decree No. 23139, Sep. 15, 2011 and Presidential Decree No. 23513, Jan. 13, 2012]
(2) The written application for early reemployment allowances under paragraph (1) shall be submitted after 12 months from the date on which he/she gets reemployed in a stable job or begins to run his/her own business for profit in accordance with Article 64 (1) of the Act. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22026, Feb. 8, 2010 and Presidential Decree No. 25022, Dec. 24, 2013]
(3) The provisions of Article 75 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the procedures for payment of early reemployment allowances.

(1) The Minister of Employment and Labor may, if one of the staff of an Employment Security Office takes a measure prescribed in Article 67 so that the eligible recipient can be reemployed in a stable job with some benefit days left, assess his/her relevant performance and provide subsidy for reemployment promotion activities within the limits of the budget pursuant to Article 64 (5). [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]
(2) Necessary matters concerning the performance assessment for the payment of the subsidy for reemployment promotion subsidy under paragraph (1), selection of those to be paid the subsidy, payment method, amount of subsidy, etc., shall be determined by the Minister of Employment and Labor. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]

(1) The vocational skills development allowances referred to in Article 65 (3) of the Act shall be paid on the day when the eligible recipient receives job training, etc., designated by the head of an Employment Security Office, and which is designated for payment of job-seeking benefits.
(2) The amount of the vocational skills development allowances under paragraph (1) shall be an amount determined and announced by the Minister of Employment and Labor in consideration of necessary expenses for job training, etc., such as transport and meal expenses, etc. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]
(3) Vocational skills development allowances shall be paid on the date on which the job-seeking benefits of the eligible recipient are paid. In this case the provisions of Article 75 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the procedures for the payment of vocational skills development allowances.
(4) The procedures for application for vocational skills development allowances shall be determined by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]
Article 66 (Wide-Area Job-Seeking Allowance)
(1) Wide-area job-seeking allowances may be paid if the eligible recipient engages in job-seeking activities in a wide area offered by an Employment Security Office and the head of the Employment Security Office deems it necessary in accordance with the standards prescribed by the Presidential Decree.
(2) The amount of wide-area job-seeking allowances shall be the expenses normally required for the job-seeking activities under paragraph (1), but calculated as prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor. [Amended by Act No. 10339, Jun. 4, 2010]

(1) The wide-area job-seeking allowances under Article 66 (1) of the Act shall be paid if the eligible recipient meets all of the following conditions：[Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]
1. The expenses required for job-seeking activities shall not be paid by the employer of a business which the eligible recipient visits for job-seeking activities, and even if paid, they shall be less than the amount of the wide-area job-seeking allowances；and
2. The distance from the eligible recipient’s residence to the place of the business visited for job-seeking activities shall be the same as or farther than the distance prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor. In this case, the distance shall be measured by the usual route from the residence to the business place, and a waterway shall be considered double the actual distance.
(2) The procedures for application for wide-area job-seeking allowances shall be prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor. In this case, the provisions of Article 75 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the procedures for payment of wide-area job-seeking allowances. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]

(1) The moving allowances prescribed in Article 67 (1) of the Act shall be paid if the eligible recipient meets all of the following conditions：[Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010 and Presidential Decree No. 23139, Sep. 15, 2011]
1. The eligible recipient shall be employed or come to receive vocational training, and the head of the competent Employment Security Office in his/her application area shall deem it necessary to change the residence in accordance with the standards determined by the Minister of Employment and Labor；
2. The costs of moving the residence shall not be paid by the employer who employs the eligible recipient, and even if paid, the amount shall be less than the moving allowances；and
3. The move shall be aimed at getting employment and the eligible recipient shall be employed on a fixed-term labor contract whose period is one year or longer.
(2) The procedures for application for moving allowances shall be prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor. In this case, the provisions of Article 75 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the procedure for payment of moving allowances. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]

"Grounds prescribed by Presidential Decree such as failure to comply with the obligation to report under Article 47 (1) or false report," in main clause of Article 68 (2) of the Act means cases referred to in any subparagraph of Article 80.

Articles 76 (1) and (3) and 81 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the allowance for promotion of employment prescribed in Articles 64 through 67 of the Act. In such cases, "job-seeking benefits" shall be construed as "allowance for promotion of employment"; "eligible recipient" as "person eligible for the payment of allowance for promotion of employment"; and "amount of job-seeking benefits" as "amount of the allowance for promotion of employment".

The head of an Employment Security Office may, if it is deemed necessary, and at the request of an eligible recipient, entrust unemployment benefits-related affairs for that person to the head of another Employment Security Office.

The respective provisions of Articles 58, 59, 61 (excluding paragraph (3)), 62 through 67, 69 through 71, 75 through 77, 79 through 83, and 88 through 92 shall apply respectively and mutatis mutandis to the unemployment benefits for insured self-employed workers.

[This Article Newly Inserted on Jan. 13, 2012]

The “causes prescribed by the Presidential Decree” in the proviso of Article 70 (2) of the Act refer to the following causes：[Amended by Presidential Decree No. 23513, Jan. 13, 2012]
1. Natural disasters；
2. Diseases or injuries of the principal or spouse；
3. Diseases or injuries of the lineal ascendants and descendants of the principal or his/her spouse；
4. Mandatory military services under the Military Service Act；and
5. Detention or execution of sentence on criminal charges

(1) The monthly amount of child care leave benefits under Article 70 (1) shall be calculated according to the following classification:

1. For three months from the first day of a child care leave: An amount equivalent to 80/100 of the ordinary monthly wage as of the first day of the child care leave: Provided That where such amount exceeds 1.5 million won, it shall be adjusted to 1.5 million won; and where such amount is less than 700,000 won, it shall be adjusted to 700,000 won;

2. Until the last day of a child care leave from the start day of the fourth month: An amount equivalent to 50/100 of the ordinary monthly wage as of the first day of the child care leave: Provided That where such amount exceeds 1.2 million won, it shall be adjusted to 1.2 million won, and where such amount is less than 700,000 won, it shall be adjusted to 700,000 won.

(2) In cases of the divided use of a child care leave pursuant to Article 19-4 (1) of the Equal Employment Opportunity and Work-Family Balance Assistance Act, the total period of each child care leave shall be deemed the period for child care leave benefits under paragraph (1).

(3) Where the period for child care leave benefits is less than one month, the amount of such benefits shall be the amount obtained by multiplying the amount calculated on a pro rata daily basis (hereinafter referred to as “prorated daily amount”) of the monthly wages under any of subparagraphs of paragraph (1) by the number of days of the child care leave in the relevant month.

(4) The amount equivalent to 75/100 of the child care leave benefits under paragraphs (1) and (3) (referring to any of the following amounts in cases falling under any of the following subparagraphs) shall be paid every month and the residual amount thereof shall be paid in lump sum to an employee who returns to the workplace after the child care leave and continues to work for at least six months: Provided, That even where the employee fails to work continuously for at least six months for good reason as prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor under subparagraph 2 (c) of Article 58 of the Act, the remaining amount shall be paid. :

1. Where child care leave benefits are paid pursuant to paragraph (1) and the amount equivalent to 75/100 of the child care leave benefits is less than the minimum payment under each subparagraph of paragraph (1): The minimum payment under each subparagraph of paragraph (1);

2. Where child care leave benefits are paid pursuant to paragraph (3) and the amount equivalent to 75/100 of the child care leave benefits is less than the prorated daily amount of the minimum payment under each subparagraph of paragraph (1): The prorated daily amount of the minimum payment under each subparagraph of paragraph (1).

[This Article Wholly Amended on Dec. 31, 2010]

Notwithstanding Article 95, where parents take turns using a child care leave for the same child, the child care leave benefits for the first three months payable to the insured employee who subsequently takes a child care leave shall amount to his or her ordinary monthly wage. In such cases, the maximum amount per month shall be 2.5 million won:

1. Deleted;

2. Deleted;

(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), where parents' periods of child care leave for the same child overlap, Article 95 shall apply to child care leave benefits for that period.

(3) Notwithstanding Article 95 (1), where a mother or father who is insured under subparagraph 1 of Article 4 of the Single-Parent Family Support Act takes a child care leave, child care leave benefits shall be determined as follows:

1. From the date of commencement of child care leave until three months: An amount of his or her ordinary monthly wage based as of the date of commencement of child care leave. In such cases, the maximum amount per month shall be 2.5 million won;

2. From the fourth month of childcare leave until the sixth month: An amount equivalent to 80/100 of the his or her ordinary monthly wage as of the date of commencement of child leave. In such cases, the maximum amount per month shall be 1.5 million won;

3. From the seventh month of childcare leave until expiration thereof: An amount equivalent to 50/100 of his or her ordinary monthly wage as of the date of commencement of child care leave. In such cases, the maximum amount per month shall be 1.2 million won.

[This Article Newly Inserted on Sep. 30, 2014]

An insured employee shall state his or her severance or employment in an application for child care leave benefits first filed after the day his or her employment is severed or he or she is employed pursuant to Article 70 (3) of the Act.

Article 97 (Application Mutatis Mutandis

The provisions of Article 81 shall apply mutatis mutandis to restrictions on the payment of child-care leave benefits paid pursuant to Article 70 (1) of the Act, an order to return them, etc. In this case, “job-seeking benefits” shall be read as “Child-Care Leave Benefits.”

Where an insured employee has received money and valuables for reasons of child care leave from the relevant business owner during a child care leave prescribed in Article 19 of the Equal Employment Opportunity and Work-Family Balance Assistance Act and an amount calculated by aggregating the money and valuables received on a monthly basis during the child care leave and an amount equivalent to 75/100 of the child care leave benefits under Article 95 (1) and (3) (where the amount is less than the minimum payment under each subparagraph of Article 95 (1), referring to the relevant amount under each subparagraph of Article 95 (4)) exceeds the insured employee’s ordinary monthly wage as of the start day of the child care leave, the Minister of Employment and Labor shall, pursuant to Article 73 (3) of the Act, pay an amount calculated by subtracting the excessive amount from the amount equivalent to 75/100 of the child care leave benefits under Article 95 (1) and (3) (where the amount is less than the minimum payment under each subparagraph of Article 95 (1), referring to the amount under each subparagraph of Article 95 (4)).

The head of an Employment Security Office may, if deemed necessary, and at the request of an insured person, deal with affairs related to child-care leave benefits by entrusting them to the head of another Employment Security Office.

Article 94 shall apply mutatis mutandis to reasons for the extension of the period allowed for application for maternity leave benefits or miscarriage or stillbirth benefits or paternity leave benefits (hereinafter referred to as "maternity leave benefits, etc.") prescribed in the proviso to subparagraph 2 of Article 75 of the Act.

[Title Amended by Jul. 10, 2012]

The maximum and minimum amount of maternity leave benefits, etc. payable to an insured employee pursuant to Article 76 (2) of the Act shall be as follows:

1. Maximum amount: The amount publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor every year, taking into account the following matters:

(a) Average ordinary wages of recipients of maternity leave benefits, etc.;

(b) The inflation rate;

(c) The minimum wage under the Minimum Wage Act;

(d) Other matters deemed necessary by the Minister of Employment and Labor;

2. Minimum amount: The amount equivalent to the ordinary wage for the period eligible for maternity leave benefits, etc. calculated by applying the hourly minimum wage as the hourly ordinary wage, where the employee's hourly ordinary wage is less than the minimum wage per hour under the Minimum Wage Act applicable as at the time when the period the maternity leave, miscarriage, or stillbirth leave or paternity leave under Article 18-2 of the Equal Employment Opportunity and Work-Family Balance Assistance Act (hereinafter referred to as "paternity leave") commences (hereinafter referred to as "minimum hourly wage").

[Title Amended on Jul. 10, 2012]

The provisions of Article 96 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the report, etc. on employment during maternity leave or miscarriage or stillbirth leave. In this case, “child-care leave benefits” shall be read as “maternity leave benefits”.

The provisions of Article 81 shall apply mutatis mutandis to restrictions on the payment of maternity leave benefits, etc. paid pursuant to Article 75 of the Act, an order to return them, etc. In this case, “job-seeking benefits” shall be read as “maternity leave benefits.”

Where an insured employee has received money and valuables, as prescribed in Article 73 (3) of the Act applied mutatis mutandis under Article 77 of the Act, that amount to the ordinary wage from the relevant business owner during the period of maternity leave, miscarriage, or stillbirth leave or paternity leave and where the aggregates of the money and valuables accepted from the business owner and the maternity leave benefits, etc. paid under Article 75 of the Act exceeds the ordinary wage as of the first day of the leave, the Minister of Employment and Labor shall pay the amount calculated by subtracting the excess amount from the maternity leave benefits, etc.: Provided, That this shall not apply where the insured employee had a raise in her ordinary wage during her leave period and thus the business owner paid the difference between the increased ordinary wage and the maternity leave benefits, etc.

[Title Amended on Jul. 10, 2012]

(1) Article 94 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the ground for extension of the period of application for the benefits for reduced working hours during the infant care period pursuant to the proviso to Article 73-2 (2) of the Act. In such cases, "child care leave benefits" shall be deemed "benefits for reduced working hours during the period of child care".

(2) The amount of benefits for reduced working hours during the period of child care prescribed in Article 73-2 (3) of the Act shall be determined in accordance with the following formula: Provided, That where the period eligible for the benefits for reduced working hours during the period of child care is less than one month, such benefits shall be calculated by multiplying the amount computed by dividing the amount obtained according to the following formula by the number of days in the relevant month, by the number of days when the reduced working hours during child care period are applied:

[This Article Newly Inserted on Sep. 15, 2011]

[Previous Article 104-2 moved to Article 104-2 ]

(1) With respect to payment restriction, return order, etc. of benefits for working hour reduction during child-rearing periods under Article 73-2 (1) of the Act, Article 81 shall apply mutatis mutandis. In this case, the term “job-seeking benefits” shall be read as “benefits for working hour reduction during child-rearing periods.”
(2) With respect to report, etc. on employment while working hour reduction period during the child-rearing period, Article 96 shall apply mutatis mutandis. In this case, the term “child-care leave benefits” shall be read as “benefits for working hour reduction during child-rearing periods.”
<This Article Newly Inserted by Presidential Decree No. 23139, Sep. 15, 2011>

Where an amount calculated by aggregating the money and valuables an insured employee has received on a monthly basis from the relevant business owner (referring to wages, and money and valuables received due to reduction in working hours during the infant care period) while working hours have been reduced during the infant care period under Article 19-2 of the Equal Employment Opportunity and Work-Family Balance Assistance Act and the benefits for reduced working hours during the infant care period under Article 73-2 of the Act exceeds the following relevant ordinary wages, the Minister of Employment and Labor shall, pursuant to Article 74 (2) of the Act, pay an amount calculated by subtracting the excess amount from the amount of benefits for reduced working hours during the infant care period:

1. Where the ordinary wage has not been raised while working hours have been reduced during the infant care period: Ordinary monthly wage based on the month immediately preceding the month to which the commencement date of reduction in working hours during the infant care period belongs;

2. Where the ordinary wage has been raised while working hours have been reduced during the infant care period: The following relevant ordinary wages:

(a) Until the day before the ordinary wage has been raised: The ordinary monthly wage based on the month immediately preceding the month to which the commencement date of reduction in working hours during the infant care period belongs;

(b) On or after the date the ordinary wage has been raised: The ordinary monthly wage based on the date the ordinary wage is raised.

[This Article Newly Inserted on Sep. 15, 2011]

(1) The Minister of Employment and Labor may hire special members in charge of asset management in order to manage and operate the Fund in a systematic and stable manner under Article 79 of the Act.

(2) Matters concerning qualifications of special members in charge of asset management, their services, remuneration, etc. shall be prescribed by the Minister of Employment and Labor.

[This Article Newly Inserted on Mar. 12, 2009]

[Moved from Article 104-2 ]

(1) The Minister of Employment and Labor may assign an expert member for fund management in order to administer and manage the fund in a systematic and stable manner pursuant to Article 79 of the Act. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]
(2) Matters concerning the qualifications, duties, remunerations, etc., of the expert member for fund management shall be determined by the Minister of Employment and Labor. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]
[This Article Newly Inserted by Presidential Decree No. 21348, Mar. 12, 2009]

(1) The “methods to increase the fund, prescribed by the Presidential Decree” in Article 79 (3) 5 of the Act refer to a purchase of securities under Article 4 of the Capital Markets and Financial Investment Business Act. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 20947, Jul. 29, 2008]
(2) The “certain level prescribed by the Presidential Decree” in Article 79 (4) of the Act refers to the rate of return determined by the Minister of Employment and Labor in consideration of the interest rates for regular savings accounts with a maturity of one year (referring to the interest rates applied by banks with nationwide business areas among the banks established under the Banking Act), expected price increase rates, etc. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010 and Presidential Decree No. 22493, Nov. 15, 2010]

The employment insurance fund (hereinafter referred to as the “fund”) shall be accounted for according to Article 11 of the National Accounting Act. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 23139, Sep. 15, 2011]

(1) "Expenses prescribed by Presidential Decree" in Article 80 (1) 7 of the Act means the following expenses:

1. Expenses incurred in the management and operation of the insurance service;

2. Expenses incurred in the management and operation of the Fund;

3. Grants to agencies for vicarious execution of administrative affairs of insurance business prescribed in Article 33 of the Insurance Premiums Collection Act;

4. Payment of fees for the entrustment of projects or business affairs prescribed in the Act and the Insurance Premiums Collection Act.

(2) With regard to contributions prescribed in Article 80 (1) 6 of the Act, where an eligible recipient of contribution to be paid on a monthly basis applies for the amount of contribution to be expended the following month, the requested amount shall be reviewed by the Minister of Employment and Labor, and reasonable amount shall be paid to the person.

(3) A recipient (hereafter referred to as "contributee" in this Article) of contributions prescribed in Article 80 (1) 6 of the Act shall open separate accounts to manage the contribution, and any interest income accrued from the account shall be returned to the Minister of Employment and Labor: Provided, That a contributee may, where the contributee has obtained approval from the Minister of Employment and Labor, use the contributions in business the contributee performs by proxy or is entrusted to perform (hereafter referred to as "business for purpose of contributions" in this Article).

(4) Contributions which remain without being used for business for purpose of contributions within an insurance year shall be returned to the Minister of Employment and Labor unless otherwise provided in other statutes: Provided, That where a contributee has obtained approval from the Minister of Employment and Labor, he or she may carry forward such contribution to the following year to be used for business for purpose of contributions.

(5) Where a contributee has used contributions for any purpose other than the intended purpose of contribution, the Minister of Employment and Labor may request the contributee to return the corresponding amount.

(6) A contributee shall report to the Minister of Employment and Labor the results of execution of contributions for the quarter by the 10th of the month following each quarter.

[This Article Wholly Amended on Sep. 18, 2008]

The Minister of Employment and Labor may execute business related to the payment of grants and subsidies from the fund, provision of loans, payment of training expenses and training allowances, or payment of unemployment benefits by entrusting the business to any of the following institutions or a postal agency：[Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010, Presidential Decree No. 22493, Nov. 15, 2010 and Presidential Decree No. 23496, Jan. 6, 2012]
1. Banks approved under Article 8 of the Banking Act；
2. Nonghyup Bank under the Agricultural Cooperatives Act；
3. The National Federation of Fishery Cooperatives under the Fishery Cooperatives Act；
4. Mutual savings banks under the Mutual Savings Bank Act；
5. Community credit cooperatives under the Community Credit Cooperatives Act；and
6. Credit cooperatives under the Credit Cooperatives Act
[This Article Wholly Amended by Presidential Decree No. 20775, Apr. 30, 2008]

The fund operation plan under Article 81 (1) of the Act shall include the following matters：
1. Matters concerning incomes and expenditures of the fund；
2. Matters concerning business plans, plans on actions causing expenditures and funding plans for the year concerned；
3. Matters concerning the disposition of the funds carried over from the previous year；
4. Matters concerning the reserve funds；and
5. Other matters necessary for fund operation.

The Minister of Employment and Labor shall, pursuant to Article 81 (2) of the Act, publish the results of the Fund operations each year in one or more daily newspapers specializing in economy or general daily newspapers whose head office is in the Seoul Metropolitan City area, official gazette, internet homepage, or broadcasting.

(1) The Minister of Employment and Labor shall appoint a fund revenue collector, fund financial officer, fund disbursement officer and fund accounting officer from among relevant public officials to carry out affairs concerning the revenues and disbursements of the fund. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]
(2) The fund revenue collector and fund financial officer shall be in charge of contracts resulting from the management and operation of the fund, actions causing revenues and disbursements, and affairs concerning the collection and determination of fund revenues, and the fund disbursement officer and fund accounting officer shall be in charge of revenues and disbursements resulting from the management and operation of the fund.
(3) When the Minister of Employment and Labor has appointed a fund revenue collector, fund financial officer, fund disbursement officer and fund accounting officer, he/she shall notify the Chairperson of the Board of Audit and Inspection and the Governor of the Bank of Korea of this. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]

The fund disbursement officer shall designate the Bank of Korea located in the local area concerned (including its main office, branch office, agency or national agency；hereinafter the same shall apply.), or if there is no Bank of Korea located in the local area concerned, the nearest Bank of Korea as the payer of checks issued by him/her.

(1) If the fund revenue collector is to collect fund revenues, he/she shall notify the person responsible for the payment that the person should pay it to the fund’s account in the Bank of Korea：Provided that this shall not apply in case the employer makes a voluntary payment within a set period.
(2) When the Bank of Korea receives fund revenues, it shall issue a receipt to the payer and send a notice of the receipt to the fund revenue collector without delay.
(3) The Bank of Korea shall gathered the revenues of the fund received under paragraph (2) together into the fund account established in the headquarters of the Bank of Korea according to handling procedures for national funds.

(1) When the fund financial officer executes a disbursement-causing action, he/she shall send the documents related to the disbursement-causing action to the fund disbursement officer.
(2) When the fund disbursement officer disburses money from the fund due to the disbursement-causing action of the fund financial officer, he/she shall have the Bank of Korea make that payment by transferring money to the savings account in the financial institution of the creditor or a person entrusted to handle the affairs of paying national funds under the conditions prescribed by laws and regulations.
(3) The amount, which has not been disbursed during the fiscal year concerned due to inevitable reasons after the fund financial officer has executed disbursement-causing actions, may be disbursed by carrying it forward to the following year.

The fund disbursement officer and fund accounting officer may not keep or handle cash：Provided that this shall not apply in cases prescribed in Article 22 (4) and 24 of the Management of the National Funds Act.

(1) The Minister of Employment and Labor shall assign to each fund financial officer a limit on the amount of funds to be used for disbursement-causing actions within the scope of the quarterly plan on disbursement-causing actions under Article 109 (2). [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]
(2) The Minister of Employment and Labor shall assign funds according to a detailed monthly funding plan prepared pursuant to Article 49 (2) of the Enforcement Decree of the Management of the National Funds Act to each fund disbursement officer within the scope of the monthly funding plan under subparagraph 2 of Article 109. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010 and Presidential Decree No. 23139, Sep. 15, 2011]

(1) The fund revenue collector, the fund financial officer and the fund disbursement officer shall prepare a report on the amount of funds collected, a report on the amount of funds used for disbursement-causing actions and a report on the amount of funds disbursed, respectively, all of which are dated the last day of each month, and shall submit them to the Minister of Employment and Labor by the 20th of the following month. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]
(2) Other necessary matters concerning the report on fund operation and management, besides the reports prescribed in paragraph (1), shall be determined by the Minister of Employment and Labor. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]

The Minister of Employment and Labor shall prepare the following documents about the settlement of accounts of the fund for each fiscal year, and shall submit them to the Minister of Strategic Planning and Finance after review at the Council by the end of February of the following fiscal year：[Amended by Presidential Decree No. 20681, Feb. 29, 2008, Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010, Presidential Decree No. 23139, Sep. 15, 2011]
1. Documents on the overview and analysis of the statements of accounts of the fund；
2. Financial statements such as position statement, financial operating statement, statement of changes in net assets, etc.；
3. List of comparisons between fund operation plans and actual achievements；
4. Statement of revenues and expenditures；and
5. Other documents necessary to clarify the contents of the settlement of accounts.
Article 84 (Accumulation of Fund)
(1) The Minister of Employment and Labor shall set aside extra funds as reserves to cope with massive unemployment or other kinds of employment insecurity. [Amended by Act No. 10339, Jun. 4, 2010]
(2) The optimum volume of the extra funds referred to in paragraph (1) shall be as follows：
1. Year-end amount of reserves for employment security and vocational skills development projects：the amount of expenditure for the year concerned or more but less than 1.5 times that amount；and
2. Year-end amount of reserves for unemployment benefits：1.5 times the amount of expenditure for the year concerned or more but less than twice that amount
[This Article Wholly Amended by Act No. 9315, Dec. 31, 2008]

Necessary matters concerning receipts and disbursements of the reserve fund and spare money of the fund under Article 84 of the Act shall be prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]

With respect to matters not provided in the Act and this Decree concerning the operation and management of the Fund, the National Finance Act and the Management of the National Funds Act shall apply mutatis mutandis.

An employment insurance examiner prescribed in Article 89 of the Act (hereinafter referred to as "examiner") shall be appointed from among any of the following public officials under the control of the Ministry of Employment and Labor:

1. A public official of Grade V or higher in general service or a public official in general service belonging to the Senior Executive Service among public officials under the control of the Ministry of Employment and Labor, who has engaged in services relating to petitions for examination or review of insurance for one year or longer;

2. A public official of Grade V or higher in general service or a public official in general service belonging to the Senior Executive Service among public officials under the control of the Ministry of Employment and Labor, who has engaged in the insurance service for two years or longer;

3. Any other person recognized by the Minister of Employment and Labor as qualified as those prescribed in subparagraph 1 or 2.

(1) The examiner shall be placed in the Ministry of Employment and Labor. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]
(2) The examiner shall be in charge of examination affairs and studying cases of requests for examination designated by the Minister of Employment and Labor. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]

(1) An application for challenge against the examiner made pursuant to Article 89 (4) of the Act shall be made in writing with the reasons clearly indicated.
(2) When the Minister of Employment and Labor receives the application for challenge under paragraph (1), he/she shall make a decision within 15 days and notify the applicant of it. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]

The person who succeeds to the status of a claimant for examination pursuant to Article 89 (5) of the Act shall report this to the examiner in writing, attaching documents proving the succession.

(1) The following matters shall be stated in a written request for examination under Article 91 of the Act：
1. Name and address of the claimant；
2. Name of the office which has make the decision as the claimee；
3. Contents of the decision which is the subject of the request for examination；
4. Date of coming into knowledge of the decision；
5. Existence and contents of the notification regarding the request for examination by the office which has made the decision as the claimee；
6. Purport and reasons for examination request；and
7. Date of the request for examination.
(2) If the request for examination is instituted by a selected representative or agent, the name and address of the selected representative or agent in addition to the matters described in paragraph (1) shall be stated, and the qualifications of the selected representative or agent shall be provided in writing. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22603, Dec. 31, 2010]
(3) The written documents described in paragraph (1) shall be signed and sealed by the claimant or the agent.

(1) The correction of a request for examination under Article 92 (2) of the Act shall be ordered using a written document containing the following contents：
1. Matters to correct；
2. Reasons for demanding the correction；
3. Period of correction；and
4. Other necessary matters.
(2) If the examiner revises a request for examination by virtue of his/her authority pursuant to the proviso of Article 92 (2) of the Act, he/she shall notify the person concerned of this.

The following matters shall be stated in a written notification about the suspension of execution under Article 93 (2) of the Act：
1. Case name of the request for examination；
2. Decision subject to the suspension of execution and contents of the suspension of execution；
3. Name and address of the claimant；
4. Name of the office which has made the decision as the claimee；and
5. Reasons for the suspension of execution.

(1) An application for an investigation conducted pursuant to Article 94 (1) of the Act to review a request for examination shall be made in writing with the following matters stated：
1. Case name of the request for examination；
2. Purport and reasons of the application；
3. Name and address of related persons who are required to be present (restricted to the case of Article 94 (1) 1 of the Act.)；
4. Name and address of the owner or custodian of documents, and other materials required to be submitted (restricted to the case of Article 94 (1) 2 of the Act)；
5. Matters requiring legal consultation and reasons therefor (restricted to the case of Article 94 (1) 3 of the Act)；and
6. Workplaces and other places to enter, employers, employees and other related persons to be questioned, documents and other materials to be inspected (restricted to the case of Article 94 (1) 4 of the Act.)
(2) If the examiner investigates evidence pursuant to Article 94 (1) of the Act, he/she shall prepare a report on evidence. In this case, if he/she gets statements from the examination claimant or a related person under Article 94 (1) 1 of the Act, he/she shall prepare a statements protocol and annex it.
(3) The following matters shall be stated in the report on evidence under paragraph (2) and the examiner shall sign and seal it：
1. Indication of the case；
2. Date, time and place of the investigation；
3. Subject and method of the investigation；and
4. Result of the investigation.

The decision on a request for examination under Article 96 of the Act shall be made by the written verdict with the following matters stated, and this shall be signed or sealed by the examiner：[Amended by Presidential Decree No. 23139, Sep. 15, 2011]
1. Number and name of the case；
2. Name and address of the claimant；
3. Name of the office which has made the decision as the claimee；
4. Main text；
5. Objectives of the request；
6. Reasons；and
7. Date of decision.

(1) Members representing employees among members of the Employment Insurance Board of Review prescribed in Article 99 (1) of the Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Board of Review") shall be commissioned by the President upon the recommendation of the Minister of Employment and Labor among candidates recommended by a general federation of labor unions, while the members representing employers shall also be commissioned by the President upon the recommendation of the Minister of Employment and Labor among candidates recommended by a nation-wide association of employers.

(2) Members of the Board of Review, except a member representing employees, a member representing employers, and ex officio members, shall be commissioned by the President upon recommendation of the Minister of Employment and Labor among any of the following persons: Provided, That standing members shall be appointed by the President upon recommendation of the Minister of Employment and Labor, from among persons who fall under subparagraph 3 or 4:

1. A person who holds the qualification as a judge, public prosecutor, or attorney-at-law;

2. A person who held or holds an adjunct professorship or a higher position in a college or university prescribed in the Higher Education Act;

3. A person who served or serves as a Grade III or higher public official, or a public official, in general service belonging to the Senior Executive Service;

4. A person who has engaged in labor-related affairs for 15 years or longer and who is deemed qualified by the Minister of Employment and Labor;

5. A person who has good knowledge and experience in issues of social insurance or employment and who is deemed qualified by the Minister of Employment and Labor.

(3) The Minister of Employment and Labor shall nominate a Grade III public official in charge of insurance affairs belonging to the Ministry of Employment and Labor or a public official in general service belonging to the Senior Executive Service as the ex officio member of the Board of Review.

(1) The term of appeal committee members shall be three years and may be renewed.
(2) When a vacancy occurs in the position of a member, the term of office of the substitute member who fills the vacancy shall be the remaining term of office of his/her predecessor：Provided that when a vacancy occurs in the position of a standing member (including the chairperson), the term of office of the substitute member shall start anew.
(3) Even in case a member’s term of office referred to in paragraph (1) expires, he/she may perform his/her duties until his/her successor is appointed.
[This Article Wholly Amended by Presidential Decree No. 21015, Sep. 18, 2008]

Members other than standing members and ex officio member who attend an appeal committee meeting may be provided with allowances and travel expenses needed to perform their duties within the limits of the budget. In this case, the regulations on travel expenses for public officials shall apply mutatis mutandis to the payment of the travel expenses.

(1) The appeal committee shall have one chairperson and one vice-chairperson.
(2) The chairperson of the appeal committee shall be appointed by the President upon nomination by the Minister of Employment and Labor from among the standing members and the vice-chairperson shall be elected from among the members. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]

(1) The chairperson shall represent the appeal committee and shall oversee the affairs of the appeal committee.
(2) The vice-chairperson shall assist the chairperson and when the chairperson is unable to perform his/her duties for inevitable reasons, the vice-chairperson shall act on behalf of him/her.

(1) A meeting of the appeal committee shall be composed of not more than nine persons including the chairperson or vice-chairperson, ex officio member and two members designated by the chairperson for each meeting, each representing workers and employers.
(2) If the chairperson of the appeal committee intends to convene a meeting, he/she shall notify in writing the time and place and agenda of the meeting to each member at least 15 days before the meeting：Provided that this shall not apply in an emergency.
(3) A meeting of the appeal committee shall be opened with the attendance of a majority of the members composed under paragraph (1) and shall make a decision by the concurring vote of a majority of the members present.

(1) The Minister of Employment and Labor may, pursuant to Article 99 (8) of the Act, have specialists in the Board of Review to assign them to carry out specialized survey research as may be necessary for the review of the Board of Review.

(2) Necessary matters concerning the qualification for, service of, and remuneration of specialists shall be prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor.

[Title Amended on Aug. 30, 2008]

The notification of the trial date and place under Article 101 (1) of the Act shall be given in writing, and be delivered directly or by registered mail.

An application for closed proceedings under the proviso of Article 101 (3) of the Act shall be made in writing with the purport and reasons stated.

(1) The following matters shall be stated in the protocol of trial under Article 101 (4)：
1. Name and number of the case；
2. Date, time and place of the trial；
3. Names of the members present；
4. Name of the person concerned or his/her agent；
5. Contents of the trial；and
6. Other necessary matters.
(2) The protocol of trail under paragraph (1) shall have the date of its writing and shall be signed or sealed by the chairperson.
(3) The inspection application under Article 101 (5) of the Act shall be made in writing.

(1) The request for reexamination under Article 87 of the Act shall be made using a document with the following contents：
1. Name and address of the claimant；
2. Matters prescribed in Article 125 (1) 2 through 4；
3. Name of the examiner who made the decision；
4. Date on which the decision became known；
5. Existence of the notification of the request for re-examination by the examiner who made the decision and contents of the notification；
6. Purport of and reasons for the request for re-examination；and
7. Date of the request for re-examination.
(2) If the request for re-examination is instituted by a selected representative or agent, it shall state the name and address of the selected representative or agent in addition to the matters prescribed in paragraph (1), and the qualifications of the selected representative or agent shall be provided in writing. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22603, Dec. 31, 2010]
(3) The claimant or the agent shall sign and seal the documents under paragraph (1).

A written adjudication on a request for re-examination shall have the following matters stated and the chairperson of the appeal committee and the members who participated in the re-examination shall sign or seal it：[Amended by Presidential Decree No. 23139, Sep. 15, 2011]
1. Name and number of the case；
2. Name and address of the claimant；
3. Name of the office which has made the original decision；
4. Name of the examiner who made the decision on the request for examination；
5. Main text；
6. Purport of the request；
7. Reasons；and
8. Date of the adjudication.

The provisions of Articles 123, 124, and 126 through 128 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the appeal committee and reexamination. In this case, the term “examiner” and “Minister of Employment and Labor” in Article 123 shall be read as “member of the appeal committee” and “chairperson of the appeal committee”, “claimant for examination” in Articles 124 and 128 as “claimant for re-examination”, “examiner” in Articles 124, 126 and 128 as “chairperson of the appeal committee” and “request for examination” in Articles 126 through 128 as “request for re-examination.” [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010]

Any of the following data or information can be requested under Article 110 (1) of the Act:

1. The following data or information regarding various kinds of pensions, insurance, and wages

(a). Enrollment in the public officials pension under the Public Officials Pension Act;

(b) Workplace-based insured persons' report and monthly pension premiums imposed under the National Pension Act;

(c). Reporting on workplaces and the amount of monthly insurance contributions for the employee insured under the National Health Insurance Act;

(d) Enrollment in the military pension plan under the Military Pension Act;

(e) Employees of special post offices enrolled in pension plan under the Special Post Offices Act;

(f) Private school teachers and staff enrolled in pension plan under the Pension for Private School Teachers and Staff Act;

(g) Industrial accident insurance benefits and persons in special types of employment under the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act;

(h) Overdue wages under the Wage Claim Guarantee Act;

2. The following data or information regarding family relations, workers, persons with disabilities, foreigners, etc.:

(a) Computerized information and certificates on records of family relations under the Act on Registration of Family Relations;

(b) Acquisition and loss of nationality and the like under the Nationality Act;

(c) Military service under the Military Service Act;

(d) Termination of employment contracts with foreign workers and other types of employment under the Act on the Employment, etc. of Foreign Workers;

(e) Verification of disabilities under the Act on the Employment Promotion and Vocational Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities;

(f) Reporting of place of residence in Korea by Korean national residing abroad and foreign nationality Koreans under the Act on the Immigration and Legal Status of Overseas Koreans.

(g) Resident registration under the Resident Registration Act;

(h) Alien registration, entry into and departure from Korea, and reporting of dismissal or resignation, etc. of aliens under the Immigration Act;

3. The following data or information regarding real estate, automobiles, ships, aircraft, etc.:

(a) A certified copy of construction machinery register and registration of construction machinery business under the Construction Machinery Management Act;

(b) A certified copy of building register under the Building Act;

(c) Certified copies of the parcels-register for sites and the parcels-register for forest areas under the Act on the Establishment, Management, etc. of Special Data;

(d) Farmland Ledgers under the Farmland Act;

(e) Collateral security register under the Act on Security over Movable Property, Claims, Etc.;

(f) Certificates of registered matters for land and certificates of registered matters for buildings under the Registration of Real Estate Act;

(g) Certificates of Registration of Legal Entities under the Non-Contentious Case Procedure Act, the Commercial Registration Act, and the like;

(h) Ship registration certificates under the Ship Registry Act;

(i) Original ship registers under the Ship Act;

(j) Motor vehicle registers under the Motor Vehicle Management Act;

(k) Middle-standing enterprises under the Special Act on the Promotion of Growth and the Strengthening of Competitiveness of Middle-Standing Enterprises;

(l) Registers under the Decree on Registration of Patent Rights, Etc.;

(m) Aircraft original register under the Aviation Safety Act;

4. Other data or information necessary for managing insured status in employment insurance:

(a) Eligibility requirements and eligibility for self-support labor under the National Basic Living Security Act;

(b) Social welfare corporations and social welfare facilities and persons engaging in them under the Social Welfare Services Act;

(c) Social service providers and related workers under the Act on the Use of Social Services and the Management of Vouchers;

(d) Child care centers and child care teachers and staff under the Child Care Act.

[This Article Newly Inserted on Aug. 27, 2020]

If the head of an Employment Security Office orders a diagnosis under Article 111 of the Act, he/she may pay necessary expenses for the diagnosis.

The Minister of Employment and Labor may entrust support for employment creation under Article 17 to other organizations on a pilot basis under Article 114 of the Act.
[This Article Newly Inserted by Presidential Decree No. 22603, Dec. 31, 2010]

(1) The Minister of Employment and Labor shall delegate his or her authority over the following affairs to the head of each employment security office, as prescribed in Article 115 of the Act:

1. Deleted;

2. Deleted;

3. Deleted;

4. Assisting job creation prescribed in Article 20 of the Act (excluding those entrusted under paragraph (4));

5. Assisting employment adjustment prescribed in Article 21 of the Act;

6. Promoting local employment prescribed in Article 22 of the Act;

7. Assisting employment of the aged, etc. prescribed in Article 23 of the Act;

8. Assisting employment security of construction workers, etc. prescribed in Article 24 of the Act;

9. Carrying out programs for vocational skills development training prescribed in Article 31 (2) of the Act;

10. Providing information on employment and establishing foundations for supporting employment prescribed in Article 33 of the Act (excluding projects for establishing a foundation for employment security and vocational skills development, those for placement of experts, and projects entrusted pursuant to paragraph (6));

11. Imposing restrictions on assistance due to improper acts prescribed in Article 35 of the Act;

12. Granting child care leave benefits and imposing restrictions thereon prescribed in Articles 70 and 73 of the Act;

13. Granting maternity leave benefits, etc. and imposing restrictions thereon prescribed in Articles 75 and 77 of the Act;

14. Demanding submission of reports or related documents or requesting appearances prescribed in Article 108 of the Act (limited to cases where such demand or request is required to process entrusted administrative affairs);

15. Having access to offices, making inquiries to the relevant person, and investigating documents prescribed in Article 109 of the Act (limited to cases where such actions are required to process entrusted administrative affairs), and issuing a prior notice of such investigations and a notice of the findings of such investigations in relation to such actions;

16. Requesting submission of materials prescribed in Article 110 of the Act (limited to cases where such request is required to process entrusted administrative affairs);

17. Paying rewards under Article 112 of the Act;

18. Imposing and collecting administrative fines under Article 118 of the Act.

19. Accepting reports on appointment and dismissal of agents prescribed in Article 4 (excluding cases where an agent conducts the affairs referred to in Article 15 of the Act on behalf of a business owner);

20. Carrying out programs for employment security and employment promotion prescribed in Article 35;

20-2. Deleted;

21. Providing support for projects for assisting employment prescribed in Article 36;

22. Granting subsidies to cover expenses incurred at a facility for promotion of employment prescribed in Article 38 (2) (limited to the facilities for promotion of employment prescribed in Article 38 (1) 2 and 3);

23. Deleted;

24. Granting subsidies for improvement of employees' vocational skills pursuant to Article 43;

25. Deleted;

26. Granting subsidies for employment training pursuant to Article 47.

(2) The Minister of Employment and Labor shall, pursuant to Article 115 of the Act, entrust the Korea Worker's Compensation and Welfare Service prescribed in the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Korea Worker's Compensation and Welfare Service") with his or her authority over the following affairs:

1. Accepting reports, etc. on insured status prescribed in Article 15 of the Act;

2. Deleted;

2-2. Verifying insured status prescribed in Article 17 of the Act;

3. Requesting reports or related documents and appearances prescribed in Article 108 of the Act (limited to cases where such request is required to process entrusted administrative affairs);

4. Having access to offices, making inquiries to the relevant person, and investigating into documents prescribed in Article 109 of the Act (limited to cases where such actions are required to process entrusted administrative affairs);

4-2. Deleted;

5. Requesting submission of materials prescribed in Article 110 of the Act (limited to cases where such request is required to process entrusted administrative affairs);

5-2. Vice Minister of Gender Equality and Family;

[5-2 Moved to subparagraph 11 ]

6. Accepting an application for insurance purchase of a public official eligible for employment insurance and notifying the fact of such application pursuant to Article 3-2 (2);

7. Accepting an application for withdrawal by an insured public official pursuant to Article 3-2 (4);

8. Accepting a report on appointment or dismissal of an agent referred to in Article 4 (limited to cases where an agent acts as an agent for matters regarding Article 15);

8-2. Managing and operating loans for the work-family balance assistance programs referred to in subparagraph 7 of Article 35;

8-3. Making loans to cover expenses for retaining employees in enterprises eligible for preferential support under Article 37-3;

9. Granting subsidies for the operation of a child care center under Article 38 (4);

10. Granting loans or subsidies to cover expenses for the installation of child care centers prescribed in Article 38 (5) and managing and operating such loans and subsidies;

11. Granting loans to cover expenses for vocational skills development training pursuant to Article 45;

12. Granting loans to cover living expenses during the vocational skills development training prescribed in Article 47-2 and managing and operating such loans.

(3) The Minister of Employment and Labor shall, pursuant to Article 115 of the Act, entrust the Human Resources Development Service of Korea with his or her authority over the following affairs:

1. Supporting the vocational skills development training for business owners pursuant to Article 27 of the Act;

2. Granting subsidies to cover expenses incurred for technical skill competitions conducted by the private sector among the projects for promotion of skilled techniques prescribed in Article 31 (1) 2 of the Act;

3. Requesting reports or related documents or appearances prescribed in Article 108 of the Act (limited to cases where such request is required to process entrusted administrative affairs);

4. Having access to offices, making inquiries to the relevant person, and investigating documents prescribed in Article 109 of the Act (limited to cases where such actions are required to process entrusted administrative affairs);

5. Requesting materials prescribed in Article 110 of the Act (limited to cases where such request is required to process entrusted administrative affairs);

6. Deleted.

7. Granting subsidies to cover expenses of vocational skills development training prescribed in Article 46;

8. Granting loans to cover expenses for vocational skills development training facilities, etc. prescribed in Article 48 and managing and operating such loans;

9. Granting subsidies to cover expenses for vocational skills development training facilities, etc. prescribed in Article 49 and managing and operating such subsidies (excluding affairs relating to decision-making on whether to grant such subsidies);

10. Deleted;

11. Granting subsidies to cover expenses for qualification testing programs prescribed in Article 51 (1) 1;

11-2. Developing, compiling and distributing training materials prescribed in Article 52 (1) 3;

12. Supporting the system for accreditation of exemplary enterprises in the development of human resources prescribed in Article 52 (1) 5;

13. Supporting vocational skills development programs conducted by business owners or employers' associations jointly with small and medium enterprises for employees of small and medium enterprises prescribed in Article 52 (1) 6;

14. Implementing vocational skills development training to improve core abilities to perform duties of business owners or employees of enterprises eligible for preferential support under Article 52 (1) 10;

15. Carrying out vocational skills development programs to promote the organized learning of enterprises eligible for preferential support prescribed in Article 52 (1) 11;

16. Carrying out vocational skills development programs to improve the skills of business owners or staff in charge of the development of human resources of enterprises eligible for preferential support for the development of human resources prescribed in Article 52 (1) 12;

17. Carrying out systematic support programs for on-site training for enterprises eligible for preferential support pursuant to Article 52 (1) 13;

18. Deleted.

(4) The Minister of Employment and Labor may, pursuant to Article 115 of the Act, entrust part of his or her authority over the subsidization of job creation programs pursuant to Article 17, subsidization of improvement programs of employment circumstances for seniors, etc. under Article 37, subsidization of expenses for employment promotion facilities prescribed in Article 38 (2) (limited to the facilities for the promotion of employment under Article 38 (1) 5), subsidization of programs collaboratively conducted by associations of business owners, associations of employees, or their federations prescribed in Article 52 (1) 4 for vocational skills development, and subsidization of local governments, etc. prescribed in Article 55 to the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency prescribed in the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency Act, the Korea Worker's Compensation and Welfare Service, the Korea Employment Agency for the Disabled prescribed in the Act on the Employment Promotion and Vocational Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities (hereinafter referred to as the "Korea Employment Agency for the Disabled"), the Korea Labor Institute established pursuant to Article 8 of the Act on the Establishment, Operation and Fostering of Government-Funded Research Institutes, Etc. (hereinafter referred to as the "Korea Labor Institute"), and other relevant specialized institutions or non-profit juristic person determined and publicly notified by the Minister of Employment and Labor, and the criteria for selecting institutions qualified as such entrustment shall be prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor.

(5) The Minister of Employment and Labor shall, pursuant to Article 115 of the Act, entrust the agencies designated and publicly announced by the Minister of Employment and Labor, such as the Human Resources Development Service of Korea, the Korea Employment Agency for the Disabled, the Korea Labor Institute, or related specialized agencies with part of his or her duties such as the examination of management of employment and other support prescribed in Article 33.

(6) The Minister of Employment and Labor shall, pursuant to Article 115 of the Act, entrust the Korea Employment Information Service established pursuant to Article 18 of the Framework Act on Employment Policy with authority over the following affairs among his or her authority over subsidization of equipment, etc. prescribed in Article 15 (6) of the Act, the provision of information on employment, and the establishment of a foundation for supporting employment prescribed in Article 33 of the Act:

1. Collecting and analyzing information on employment and furnishing such information to employment security offices;

2. Researching, developing, and disseminating techniques for occupational guidance, including counselling on jobs and training;

3. Evaluating the provision of information on employment, occupational guidance, and job referral and providing support for such activities;

4. Operating electronic networks relating to employment insurance among the affairs relating to the establishment of the infrastructure for employment security and vocational skills development.

(7) The Minister of Employment and Labor shall, pursuant to Article 115 of the Act, entrust the Korea Construction Working Mutual Fund prescribed in Article 9 of the Act on the Employment Improvement of Construction Workers with support for stable employment, etc. of construction workers prescribed in subparagraph 4 of Article 35.

(8) In order to carry out the affairs entrusted under paragraphs (2) through (5), the President of the Korea Worker's Compensation and Welfare Service, the President of the Human Resource Development Service of Korea, and the President of the Korea Employment Agency for the Disabled shall each appoint a director responsible for fund revenue and a director responsible for acts incurring expenditure from the fund among standing directors at each institution, appoint an officer in charge of fund disbursement and a fund cashier among the employees of each institution, and shall report the appointment to the Minister of Employment and Labor. In such cases, the duties for which each director or officer is responsible shall be as follows:

1. Director responsible for fund revenue: Duties of a fund revenue collector;

2. Director responsible for acts incurring expenditure from the Fund: Duties of a fund treasurer;

3. Officer in charge of fund expenditure: Duties of a fund expenditure officer;

4. Fund cashier: Duties of a fund accounting official.

(9) The Minister of Employment and Labor shall give notice of the appointment of a director responsible for fund revenue, a director responsible for acts incurring expenditure from the Fund, an officer in charge of fund expenditure, and a fund cashier prescribed in paragraph (8) to the Chairperson of the Board of Audit and Inspection and the Governor of the Bank of Korea.

(1) Where it is unavoidable to perform the following affairs, the Minister of Employment and Labor (including any person delegated or entrusted with the authority or affairs of the Minister of Employment and Labor pursuant to Article 145) may manage data containing resident registration numbers or alien registration numbers prescribed in Article 19 of the Enforcement Decree of the Personal Information Protection Act:

1. Purchase of the employment insurance for foreign workers prescribed in Article 10-2 of the Act and Article 3-3 of this Decree;

1-2. Purchase of or withdrawal from the employment insurance for public officials in extraordinary civil service and public officials in a fixed term position pursuant to the proviso to Article 10 (1) 3 of the Act and Article 3-2 of this Decree;

2. Reporting of the attainment, loss, etc. of insured status prescribed in Article 15 of the Act;

3. Deleted;

4. Verification of qualifications for insured status prescribed in Article 17 of the Act;

5. Assistance to a business owner who expands employment opportunities prescribed in Article 20 of the Act;

6. Assistance to a business owner who has taken measures for employment security prescribed in Article 21 of the Act;

7. Assistance to a business owner who promotes local employment prescribed in Article 22 of the Act;

8. Assistance for promotion of employment of seniors, etc. prescribed in Article 23 of the Act;

9. Assistance to and providing loans for those who conduct programs aimed at promoting employment security and job creation prescribed in Article 25 of the Act;

10. Assistance for facilities contributing to promotion of employment prescribed in Article 26 of the Act;

11. Promoting loans for those who bear the expenses incurred in vocational skills development training to a business owner prescribed in Article 27 of the Act;

12. Assistance for vocational skills development to the insured, etc. prescribed in Article 29 of the Act;

13. Assistance to and extension of loans to those who bear the expenses incurred in establishing vocational skills development training facilities and purchasing equipment related thereto pursuant to Article 30 of the Act;

14. Assistance to those who conduct programs for promotion of vocational skills development pursuant to Article 31 of the Act;

15. An order to return a subsidy or to additionally collect such subsidy, on account of an improper act, pursuant to Article 35 of the Act;

15-2. Subsidization of national pension premiums pursuant to Article 55-2 of the Act;

16. Payment of child care leave benefits prescribed in Article 70 of the Act;

17. Payment of the benefits for reduced working hours during the period of infant care prescribed in Article 73-2 of the Act;

18. Payment of maternity leave benefits, etc. prescribed in Article 75 of the Act;

19. Application in subrogation for the payment of maternity leave benefits, etc. prescribed in Article 75-2 of the Act;

20. Request for the report, etc. pursuant to Article 108 of the Act;

21. Investigations, etc. under Article 109 of the Act;

22. Request for data prescribed in Article 110 of the Act;

23. Reporting on improper acts and the payment of a monetary reward in return therefor prescribed in Article 112 of the Act;

24. Reporting on the appointment or dismissal of an agent prescribed in Article 4;

25. Reporting on the change of an insured employee's name and other details prescribed in Article 10.

(2) Where inevitable to carry out the following affairs, the head of a relevant employment security office may handle the materials which include resident registration numbers or alien registration numbers under subparagraph 1 or 4 of Article 19 of the Enforcement Decree of the Personal Information Protection Act:

1. An order to return job-seeking benefits, etc. or to additionally collect them, on account of improper acts, pursuant to Articles 62, 74 and 77 of the Act;

2. Reporting of unemployment (including verifying a certificate of severance) under Article 42 of the Act;

3. Approval of eligibility for benefits prescribed in Article 43 of the Act;

4. Verification of unemployment, etc. prescribed in Article 44 of the Act;

5. Postponement, etc. of the benefit period prescribed in Article 48 of the Act and Article 71 of this Decree;

6. Payment of individually extended benefits prescribed in Article 52 of the Act;

7. Payment of unpaid job-seeking benefits prescribed in Article 57 of the Act;

8. Payment of sickness benefits prescribed in Article 63 of the Act;

9. Payment of the early re-employment allowance prescribed in Article 64 of the Act;

10. Payment of the long-distance job search allowance prescribed in Article 66 of the Act;

11. Affairs on the payment of the relocation allowance prescribed in Article 67 of the Act.

(3) Where inevitable to carry out the affairs on the request for review prescribed in Article 87 (1) of the Act, an examiner may handle the materials which include resident registration numbers or foreign registration numbers prescribed in subparagraph 1 or 4 of Article 19 of the Enforcement Decree of the Personal Information Protection Act.

(4) Where inevitable to carry out the following affairs, the Board of Review may handle the materials which include resident registration numbers or foreign registration numbers prescribed in subparagraph 1 or 4 of Article 19 of the Enforcement Decree of the Personal Information Protection Act:

1. Affairs concerning a request for further review prescribed in Article 87 (1) of the Act;

2. Affairs concerning perusal of hearing report prescribed in Article 101 (5) and (6) of the Act.

[This Article Wholly Amended on Jan. 13, 2012]

Deleted

The amount of the fine for negligence referred to in Article 118 (1) through (3) is shown in Table 3：Provided that the Minister of Employment and Labor may raise or reduce the amount concerned by up to half in consideration of the degree and frequency of the offense, the motive and results of the offense, etc. and in the case of raising the amount, it shall not exceed the maximum amount prescribed in Article 118 (1) through (3) of the Act. [Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010, Presidential Decree No. 22603, Dec. 31, 2010 and Presidential Decree No. 24155, Oct. 29, 2012]
[This Article Wholly Amended by Presidential Decree No. 21015, Sep. 18, 2008]
[Implemented Jan. 1, 2013] Article 146