(1) A person who intends to be paid job-seeking benefits shall, upon job-leaving, report his or her unemployment to an employment security office without delay; provided, if there is a reason prescribed by Decree of the Ministry of Employment and Labor, such as difficulty in attending due to a disaster defined in subparagraph 1 of Article 3 of the Framework Act on the Management of Disasters and Safety, the report may be filed through the employment information system under Article 15-2 of the Framework Act on Employment Policy. <Amended on May 26, 2020; Dec. 31, 2022>
(2) Reporting of unemployment done under paragraph (1) shall include application for job-seeking and recognition of eligibility for benefits prescribed in Article 43.
(3) A person who intends to report his or her unemployment to be paid job-seeking benefits pursuant to paragraph (1) may request the owner of a business in which such person was employed before job-leaving to issue data by which qualifying days in covered employment, contractual working hours per day before job-leaving, etc. are verifiable (hereinafter referred to as "job-leaving certificate"). In such case, the business owner in receipt of such request shall issue a job-leaving certificate as prescribed by Decree of the Ministry of Employment and Labor. <Added on Aug. 27, 2019>