(1) Where an insured employee who has left his or her job satisfies all of the following requirements, job-seeking benefits shall be paid to him or her; provided, subparagraphs 5 and 6 shall apply only to a person who has been a daily hire employee at the time of most recent job-leaving: <Amended on Jan. 15, 2019; Aug. 27, 2019; May 26, 2020; Jan. 5, 2021; Dec. 31, 2022; Oct. 1, 2025>
1. The number of qualifying days in covered employment (referring to the qualifying days in covered employment prescribed in Article 41; hereinafter the same shall apply) during the base period prescribed in paragraph (2) (hereinafter referred to as "base period") shall amount to at least 180 days;
2. The insured employee is able and willing to work but is still yet to secure employment (including self-employment in a for-profit business; hereafter the same shall apply in this Chapter and Chapter V);
3. The reasons for job-leaving shall not fall under any of the disqualifying conditions set forth in Article 58;
4. That an insured self-employed person shall be actively engaged in seeking re-employment.
5. Any of the following shall be applicable to the insured employee:a. The sum of the number of working days from the beginning of the month immediately preceding the month in which the date of application for recognition of eligibility for benefits under Article 43 falls to the date of application for recognition of eligibility for benefits shall be less than 1/3 of the total number of days in the same period;b. An insured employee shall be a daily hire employee working in the construction industry (referring to a person who is a daily hire employee and has worked, at the time of job-leaving, in the construction industry under the section classification on the Korean Standard Industrial Classification publicly notified by the Minister of Data and Statistics as prescribed in Article 22(1) of the Statistics Act; hereinafter the same shall apply) and have no record of work performed during the 14 continuous days before the date such insured employee applies for recognition of eligibility for benefits;
6. Where the insured employee has been severed from another employment due to a reason falling under the grounds for disqualification under Article 58 during the qualifying days in covered employment during the base period at the time of most recent job-leaving, the insured employee shall have worked as a daily hire employee for at least 90 days during the qualifying days in covered employment.
(2) The base period shall be 18 months before the date of job-leaving, but if an insured employee falls under any of the following cases, the base period shall be the period classified as follows: <Amended on Aug. 27, 2019; Jan. 5, 2021>
1. Where an insured employee has earned no remuneration due to illness, injury, or other grounds prescribed by Presidential Decree for 30 days during the 18 months before the date of job-leaving: A period (if the period exceeds three years, it shall be deemed three years) obtained by aggregating 18 months and the number of days in which such insured employee has not been paid remuneration due to such reason;
2. Where all of the following requirements are satisfied: 24 months before the date of job-leaving:a. An insured employee shall have worked as a worker whose contractual working hours per week are less than 15 hours and contractual working days per week are two days or less at the time of job-leaving;b. An insured employee shall have worked as a worker to whom item a is applicable for at least 90 days during the qualifying days in covered employment in the 24 months before the date of job-leaving.