(1) If an insured person who is an employee, an artist under Article 77-2(1), a worker under Article 77-6(1), or a self-employed person and who has acquired two or more different insured statuses and has lost all of them due to job-leaving seeks to receive job-seeking benefits, the determination of eligibility for benefits shall be made on the basis of the insured status chosen by the insured person among the two or more insured statuses.
(2) If the insured status selected by a person seeking to be recognized as eligible under paragraph (1) is not the last-lost insured status (in the case of a simultaneous loss of insured statuses, it refers to all of the insured statuses lost at the same time; hereafter in this paragraph, the same shall apply), eligibility for benefits shall be recognized only if the reason for job-leaving relating to the last-lost insured status does not constitute a reason for limitation on eligibility for benefits under Article 58 or Article 69-7; provided, if head of an employment security office deems that the job-leaving is due to a decrease in income as prescribed by Presidential Decree, it shall not be considered a reason for limitation on eligibility for benefits.[This Article Added on Dec. 31, 2022]