Employment Insurance Act

고용보험법

Act · 고용노동부 · English text effective 2025-10-01 · Korean current 2026-09-18

Articles

• CHAPTER I GENERAL PROVISIONS
• Article 1 Purpose
• Article 2 Definitions
• Article 3 Administration of insurance
• Article 4 Insurance programs
• Article 5 Fiscal assistance
• Article 6 Insurance premiums
• Article 7 The Employment Insurance Committee
• Article 8 Scope of application
• Article 9 Establishment or termination of insurance relationship
• Article 10 Exclusion from application
• Article 10-2 Application to foreign workers, artists, and workers
• Article 11 Insurance-related survey and research
• Article 11-2 Assessment of insurance programs
• Article 12 International exchange and cooperation
• CHAPTER II ADMINISTRATION OF INSURED EMPLOYEES
• Article 13 Date of acquisition of insured status
• Article 14 Date of loss of insured status
• Article 15 Reporting on insured status
• Article 16 null
• Article 17 Verification of insured status
• Article 18 Criteria for acquiring insured status
• CHAPTER III EMPLOYMENT SECURITY AND VOCATIONAL SKILLS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
• Article 19 Implementation of employment security and vocational skills development programs
• Article 20 Assistance for job creation
• Article 21 Assistance for employment adjustment
• Article 22 Promotion of local employment
• Article 23 Assistance for employment of senior citizens
• Article 24 Assistance for employment security of construction workers
• Article 25 Employment security and promotion of employment
• Article 26 Assistance for facilities contributing to promoting employment
• Article 26-2 Limitation on assistance
• Article 27 Assistance to business owners in vocational skills development training
• Article 28 Subsidization criteria
• Article 29 Assistance for vocational skills development of insured employees
• Article 30 Assistance for vocational skills development training facilities
• Article 31 Promotion of vocational skills development
• Article 32 Assistance for vocational skills development of construction workers
• Article 33 Establishment of resources for information and assistance services
• Article 34 Assistance to local governments
• Article 35 Restriction on assistance due to improper acts
• Article 36 Vicarious execution of affairs
• CHAPTER IV UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS
• SECTION 1 General Provisions
• Article 37 Types of unemployment benefits
• Article 37-2 Unemployment benefit receipt accounts
• Article 38 Protection of rights to receive benefits
• Article 38-2 Exemption from public charges
• Article 39 null
• SECTION 2 Job-Seeking Benefits
• Article 40 Eligibility requirements for job-seeking benefits
• Article 41 Qualifying days in covered employment
• Article 42 Reporting of unemployment
• Article 43 Recognition of eligibility for benefits
• Article 43-2 Recognition of eligibility for benefits when acquiring two or more insured statuses
• Article 44 Recognition of unemployment
• Article 45 Daily wage as basis for computation of benefits
• Article 46 Daily amount of job-seeking benefits
• Article 47 Reporting on employment during period subject to recognition of unemployment
• Article 48 Benefit period and number of days to receive benefit
• Article 49 Waiting period
• Article 50 Days of benefits payable and period of covered employment
• Article 51 Extended training benefits
• Article 52 Individual extended benefits
• Article 53 Special extended benefits
• Article 54 Extended benefit period and daily amount of job-seeking benefits
• Article 55 Coordination of extended benefit payment
• Article 55-2 Support for pension premiums of national pension
• Article 56 Date and method of payment
• Article 57 Job-seeking benefits not yet paid
• Article 58 Restriction on qualifying conditions depending on reasons for job-leaving
• Article 59 null
• Article 60 Suspension of benefits for refusing training
• Article 61 Denial of benefits due to improper acts
• Article 62 Order to return job-seeking benefits
• Article 63 Special cases for sickness benefits
• SECTION 3 Employment Promotion Allowances
• Article 64 Early re-employment allowances
• Article 65 Vocational skill development allowances
• Article 66 Long-distance job search allowances
• Article 67 Relocation allowances
• Article 68 Restriction on payment of employment promotion allowances
• Article 69 Application mutatis mutandis
• SECTION 4 Special Cases concerning Application of Unemployment Benefits for Insured Self-Employed Persons
• Article 69-2 Types of unemployment benefits for insured self-employed persons
• Article 69-3 Eligibility requirements for job-seeking benefits
• Article 69-4 Daily wage
• Article 69-5 Daily amount of job-seeking benefits
• Article 69-6 Specified number of days for which benefits are payable
• Article 69-7 Limitation on eligibility for benefits depending on reasons for business closure
• Article 69-8 Limitation on payment of unemployment benefits for insured self-employed persons
• Article 69-9 Application mutatis mutandis
• CHAPTER V CHILD CARE LEAVE BENEFITS
• SECTION 1 Child Care Leave Benefits and Benefits for Reduced Working Hours during Period of Child Care
• Article 70 Child care leave benefits
• Article 71 Verification of child care leave
• Article 72 null
• Article 73 Limitations on payment of child care leave benefits
• Article 73-2 Benefits for reduced working hours during child care period
• Article 74 Application mutatis mutandis
• SECTION 2 Maternity Leave Benefits
• Article 75 Maternity leave benefits
• Article 75-2 Subrogation of rights to maternity leave benefits
• Article 76 Payment period
• Article 76-2 Application to fixed-term employees or temporary agency workers
• Article 77 Application mutatis mutandis
• CHAPTER V-2 SPECIAL CASES CONCERNING EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE FOR INSURED ARTISTS
• Article 77-2 Application to insured artists
• Article 77-3 Job-seeking benefits for insured artists
• Article 77-4 Maternity benefits of artists
• Article 77-5 Application mutatis mutandis
• CHAPTER V-3 SPECIAL CASES CONCERNING EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE FOR INSURED WORKERS
• Article 77-6 Application to insured workers
• Article 77-7 Special cases concerning labor platform operators
• Article 77-8 Job-seeking benefits for insured workers
• Article 77-9 Maternity benefits of workers
• Article 77-10 Application mutatis mutandis
• CHAPTER VI EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE FUND
• Article 78 Establishment of Fund and fund-raising
• Article 79 Management and operation of Fund
• Article 80 Use of Fund
• Article 81 Fund operation plan
• Article 82 Establishment of Fund accounts
• Article 83 Fund revenues and expenditures
• Article 84 Accumulation of Fund
• Article 85 Treatment of year-end balance
• Article 86 Borrowings
• CHAPTER VII REQUESTS FOR REVIEW AND FURTHER REVIEW
• Article 87 Review and further review
• Article 88 Designation of agent
• Article 89 Employment insurance examiner
• Article 90 Filing of request for review
• Article 91 Manner of filing
• Article 92 Rectification and dismissal without prejudice
• Article 93 Stay of effectiveness of initial disposition
• Article 94 Authority of examiners
• Article 95 Reimbursement for actual expenses
• Article 96 Decision
• Article 97 Notice of decision
• Article 98 Effect of decision
• Article 99 Employment Insurance Appeal Committee
• Article 100 Other party to further review
• Article 101 Further review
• Article 102 Provisions applicable mutatis mutandis
• Article 103 Notice
• Article 104 Relationship to other statutes
• CHAPTER VIII SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS
• Article 105 Prohibition of disadvantageous action
• Article 106 Application mutatis mutandis
• Article 107 Extinctive prescription
• Article 108 Reporting
• Article 109 Investigation
• Article 110 Requests for provision of data
• Article 111 Medical examination order
• Article 112 Payment of monetary rewards
• Article 113 null
• Article 113-2 Special cases concerning recipients prescribed in the National Basic Living Security Act
• Article 114 Operation of pilot programs
• Article 115 Delegation and entrustment of authority
• Article 115-2 Legal fiction as public officials for purposes of penalty provisions
• CHAPTER IX PENALTY PROVISIONS
• Article 116 Penalty provisions
• Article 117 Joint penalty provisions
• Article 118 Administrative fines

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